Tony Vota

Current

Lead Engineer at National Grid
Senior Engineer at National Grid / KeySpan
Senior Engineer at National Grid

Technology Consultant at TechSavvyGuru.com (Sole Proprietorship)
Electrical Engineer at KeySpan

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Past

Electrical Engineer at LILCO

Education

State University of New York at Stony Brook

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Tony Vota’s Summary

Electrical engineer with a background in electric power distribution operations and engineering. Wireless communications for distribution automation SCADA systems. Product development for wireless control of utility equipment for demand side management. Materials and Standards Senior Engineer responsible for specifying materials and developing construction standards for overhead and underground electric distribution systems.

Tony Vota’s Specialties:

wireless communications, blogging, podcasting, collaborative technologies, electrical engineer, product development, Electrical power engineering, standards and procedure writing,document management, websites,wikis, GSM, GPRS,SMS

Tony Vota’s Experience

Lead Engineer

National Grid

(Public Company; NGG; Utilities industry)

2007 — Present (2 years )
Senior Engineer

National Grid / KeySpan

(Public Company; Utilities industry)

2007 — Present (2 years )
Senior Engineer

National Grid

(Public Company; Utilities industry)

2006 — Present (3 years )
Technology Consultant
TechSavvyGuru.com (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2004 — Present (5 years 5 months)

Home, personal, and mobile technology consultant. Emphasizing: Collaborative Internet technologies, blogging, podcasting... See my website: techsavvyguru.com for more details
Electrical Engineer

KeySpan

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; KSE; Utilities industry)

May 1998 — Present (11 years 8 months)

Various positions in Electrical Engineering, Operation of Electric Distribution system, wireless communications, SCADA & Distribution Automation systems, product development, Electric Distribution Materials & Standards engineering
Electrical Engineer

LILCO

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; LIL; Utilities industry)

1990 — 1998 (8 years )

Senior Engineer - Voice & Wireless Section of Electrical Engineering Department
Responsible for engineering and construction project management support for installation of over 80 wireless carrier cell sites on electric utility infrastructure.

Also supported wireless engineering for a wireless fixed network Automated Meter Reading pilot project deployment.

Wireless engineering and project management for a distribution automation SCADA system.

Tony Vota’s Education

State University of New York at Stony Brook

B.E. , Electrical Engineering , 1986 — 1990

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Tony Vota’s Interests:

Mobile Computing,Digital Photography,Semantic Web, Linked Data,GIS and geotagging, iPod Touch, MacBook, Apple products in general,Getting Things Done "GTD", skiing, FriendFeed, touch screen technologies

Tony Vota’s Groups:

Meetup.com,Suffolk County Investor's Business Daily Meetup Group,Double Diamond ski club, Volunteer FIRST Robotics Competition (SBPLI Long Island Regional)