Vice President of Operations at Quanta Technology
Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
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- Senior Vice President of Operations at Quanta Technology
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- Vice President at InfraSource
- Senior Principal Consultant at KEMA
- Director of Technology at ABB Consulting Inc.
- Director of Technology at ABB
- Education
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- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Kenan-Flagler Business School
- University of Washington
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Richard Brown’s Summary
Richard Brown is the Senior Vice President of Operations for Quanta Technology (formerly called InfraSource Technology), a firm specializing in technical and management consulting for electric utilities. His primary areas of expertise are system reliability and asset management. He has published more than ninety technical articles in these areas and is author of the book Electric Power Distribution Reliability. He has provided consulting services to most major electric utilities in the United States and many around the world.
Dr. Brown has been on the leadership team of three successful startup organizations. This includes (1) a distribution systems group, which profitably grew from scratch to $20 million in revenue in two years; (2) an power delivery consulting group, which profitably grew from scratch to $9 million in revenue in three years; and (3) a power systems technology group, which profitably grew from scratch to $5 million in revenue in its first year.
Dr. Brown is a Fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The grade of Fellow recognizes unusual distinction in the profession and is conferred only by invitation of the IEEE Board of Directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments. He is actively involved in the IEEE Power Engineering Society (PES), and is presently vice chair of the Planning and Implementation Committee.
Dr. Brown earned his BSEE, MSEE, and PhD from the University of Washington in Seattle, and his MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of North Carolina.
Richard Brown’s Specialties:
Distribution, reliability, asset management, risk management, aging infrastructure, distributed generation.
Richard Brown’s Experience
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Senior Vice President of Operations
Quanta Technology
(Utilities industry)
July 2006 — Present (3 years 5 months)
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Vice President
InfraSource
(Public Company; Utilities industry)
2006 — 2007 (1 year )
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Senior Principal Consultant
KEMA
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Utilities industry)
May 2003 — June 2006 (3 years 2 months)
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Director of Technology
ABB Consulting Inc.
(Utilities industry)
2001 — 2003 (2 years )
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Director of Technology
ABB
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ABB; Oil & Energy industry)
July 1996 — April 2003 (6 years 10 months)
Richard Brown’s Education
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Kenan-Flagler Business School
MBA , Business , 2002 — 2003
- Activities and Societies:
- Beta Gamma Sigma
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University of Washington
PhD , Electrical Engineering , 1987 — 1996
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Richard Brown’s Interests:
Dogs, tennis
Richard Brown’s Groups:
IEEE Power Engineering Society
Richard Brown’s Honors:
IEEE Technical Committee Working Group Recognition Award: Electric Delivery System Reliability Tutorial Working Group (2007);
IEEE Technical Committee Working Group Recognition Award: Aging Power System Infrastructure (2007);
IEEE Technical Committee Working Group Recognition Award: T&D Asset Management (2006)
IEEE PES Walter Fee Outstanding Young Engineer Award (2003)
Listed in Marquis Who’s Who in America
Listed in Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering
ABB Award of Excellence: President’s Award (1999)
ABB Award of Excellence: Product Development (1998)
Member, Eta Kappa Nu (Electrical Engineering Honor Society)
Member, Beta Gamma Sigma (Business Honor Society)
Richard Brown’s Contact Settings
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