chris hofmann

director, transmission and generation operations

About

I have a passion for working on projects that are out of the ordinary and bring together groups for successful completion of utility projects. My background is in distribution design, project management and telecommunications with multiple years of experience working with utilities of all sizes and startup companies.

Country

united states

City

reno

Industry

utilities

Skill

renewable energy, energy, solar energy, project management, engineering, telecommunications, management, power generation, power distribution, testing, electrical engineering, contract management, power transmission, smart grid, inverters, energy efficiency, construction, scada, power systems, integration, electric power, transmission, energy management, optics, operations management, start ups, project engineering, pmp, photovoltaics, commissioning, electricity, electricians, alternative energy, wind, sustainable energy, microsoft project, solar, energy policy, energy conservation, substation, telecom infrastructure, utility design, utility, optical system design, ms project, factory, solar pv, automation, smart metering, electronics

Experience

director, transmission and generation operations

salt river project

2019-12 - Present · 6 yrs 10 mos

field engineer

sierra pacific communications

2001-1 - 2005-1 · 4 yrs 1 mo

supervisor, lines construction and maintenance

nv energy

2009-12 - 2010-10 · 11 mos

project manager pmp

nv energy

2008-9 - 2009-12 · 1 yr 4 mos

As a project manager, I work with multiple groups on a daily basis, The projects include Large transmission as well as distribution line designs. Currently working with new renewable energy groups attempting to join into our grid

regional engineer

sierra pacific power company

2005-9 - 2008-9 · 3 yrs 1 mo

As Operations Engineer, I was responsible for all of the Reno Sparks, NLT, and up to Portola as my area. I dealt with Power Quality issues, outages, and various redesign issues to increase reliability of the system

field engineer

nokia

1996-2 - 2001-9 · 5 yrs 8 mos

Oversaw major carrier class equipment installation, testing and turn-ups, along with new startup companies , and smaller installations.

applications technologist -utility solar

advanced energy

2011-11 - 2012-4 · 6 mos

As an Applications Technologist I have been working on large and small scale utility solar installations, testing and turn-up, modeling in PV syst, skid design and system integration. I review and approve fiber design and configuartion for SCADA, workin with the project developers to complete the most efficient and effective design for utility interconnection.

project manager

nv energy

2012-4 - 2014-1 · 1 yr 10 mos

business manager

liberty utilities

2013-10 - 2014-12 · 1 yr 3 mos

In this position i had the opportunity to manage all of the day to day operations with the crews, trouble response and new business. I also was able to working with the environmental and lands teams and the engineering team. I spent quite a bit of my time working with the CPUC with the rates and regulatory along with new meters and process creation. I spent quite a bit of my time working with the parent company and the utilities under the Canadian parent company to create ad implement a new smart meter retrofit project.

managing member

c-con consulting

2004-9 - 2014-12 · 10 yrs 4 mos

C-Con started working in CO and POP design and expanded into outside plant fiber transmission and distribution design and permitting. C-Con is also actively working in project management and SCADA network design for renewable energy field installations.

manager, transmission and distribution operations

nv energy

2014-12 - 2016-3 · 1 yr 4 mos

director grid reliability and operations

nv energy

2016-3 - Present · 10 yrs 7 mos

Headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, NV Energy, Inc. is a holding company with principal subsidiaries, Nevada Power Company and Sierra Pacific Power Company, doing business as NV Energy. Serving a combined 45,592-square-mile service territory, NV Energy provides a wide range of energy services and products to approximately 2.4 million citizens of Nevada and nearly 40 million tourists annually.Keep up with NV Energy at Facebook.com/NVEnergy and Twitter.com/NVEnergy.