Call for Candidates 2008
Status: Now Closed
Submission Guidelines: (PDF 86 KB)
Candidacy Form: (MS Word 141 KB)
Submission Deadline: January 15, 2008
Notification: January 30, 2008
The GridWise® Architecture Council (GWAC) conducts membership renewal each year. Member terms last 2 years. As a guideline, roughly one-quarter of the membership is made up of new members each year. This year the Architecture Council announces eight open seats and seeks candidates to represent interests in a number of areas. Existing members have all indicated their interest to renew their candidacies for another 2-year term. While existing members renewing their membership have the advantage of being familiar with the Council, the Nominations Committee's job is to develop a slate of candidates that best meets the desired attributes specified for a council with balanced representation.
The GridWise Architecture Council comprises respected thought leaders with knowledge and expertise in power systems, information technology, telecommunications, financial systems, and end use electricity consumption. These thirteen members are working together to articulate the guiding interoperability concepts and principles that support the GridWise vision-the transformation of the nation's energy system into a rich, collaborative network filled with decision-making information exchange and market-based opportunities.
We are looking for qualified candidates with experience in one or more of the following areas:
- Electric power engineering, energy management systems, and systems planning
- Energy economics, and market and financial systems
- Information technology including distributed agent-based software systems, electronic commerce systems, supply chain management, internet technologies, security, and information modeling
- Complex, system of systems theory, requirements, and design methodology
- Telecommunication wide-area network management, sensing, and control (e.g., metering, SCADA, remote management systems)
- Residential automation and smart device (e.g., appliance) integration
- Distributed energy resource integration (e.g., generation, demand response)
- Energy policymaking and regulation (local, state, and federal levels)
- Consumer and consumer advocacy (includes industrial/commercial energy acquisition and management)
- Incorporation of environmental externalities into system operations, including energy efficiency and sustainability aspects
Key factors to be considered in selecting nominees for the GWAC include:
- Visionary Capability: Members are expected be capable of understanding and contributing to the multi-disciplinary aspects of the Architecture Council mission.
- Team Effectiveness: Members are expected to work effectively within the scope of the Architecture Council and within its organizational environment as a team.
- Credibility and Outreach: Members should be deemed credible by GridWise stakeholders as a whole and able to relay and leverage GridWise Architecture Council messages through the stakeholder community, contributing to underlying consensus building goals of GridWise.
- Recognition: Members are expected to be recognized experts in their technical fields of endeavor.
Active participation in the GridWise Architecture Council offers a unique opportunity to shape the information, telecommunications and control architecture for the future electric system from generation to end-use.
Council members are expected to invest significant effort in setting the architectural direction and reference framework. This means that investigation and presentation of concepts and results are natural components of this work. A serious commitment to attend meetings and review relevant material is required. Members filling open seats will be expected to contribute 5% and up to 20% of their time (approximately four meetings per year with a similar number of web-conferences). To mitigate the demand on council member time and broaden input from other areas of expertise, dynamic work groups or task forces composed of outside resources may be formed and drawn upon at the discretion of the Architecture Council to support these efforts.
Background materials on the GridWise Architecture Council are listed on the GWAC website and include:
See more on the GridWise Architecture Council, current members, current activities, and meeting minutes.
While compiling the elements needed for a complete candidate submission, we encourage potential candidates to initially indicate their intent to submit as soon as possible through a simple e-mail including candidate's name, title, company, and a resume, if available.
A complete submission should include:
- Candidate's letter of motivation
- Candidate's complete resume that includes or is supplemented with professional details covering publications, awards, recognitions, memberships in organizations, elected positions, etc.
- Completed GridWise Architecture Council Candidacy Form (download as PDF (86 KB) or MS Word (141 KB))
- Letter of support from candidate's affiliate organization
Resumes or additional professional information should provide details on the range of experience and skills that may be related to GridWise and Architecture Council needs. The forms below provide examples of industry sector experience and specific expertise and skills that would be relevant and should be noted in submitted information.
Submissions may be sent by email, fax, or by mail to the GridWise Architecture Council Coordinators:
By mail:
Steve Widergren
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
P.O. Box 999, MS K1-85
Richland, WA 99352
The GridWise Architecture Council coordinators will accept submissions from candidates through January 15, 2008. GWAC coordinators will verify that the information is complete and contact candidates to confirm that their submission has been received. Candidates will be informed of the targeted selection completion date after the closure of submissions.
