Ali Vojdani is the President of Utility Integration Solutions, Inc (UISOL). He has over 26 years of experience in the computer applications and systems integration services in the utility industry. At UISOL he serves power companies such as the California Independent System Operator (ISO), Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), and Western Area Power Administration (WAPA).
Prior to UISOL, he was the Utility Industry General Manager and Solutions Director at Vitria Technology, a leading middleware software vendor in Silicon Valley. He helped companies in the energy industry to improve their information technology architecture, automate their business processes, and engage in Business-to-Business eCommerce. His clients included Southern California Edison, Duke Energy Trading, California ISO, Trade-well, Welllogix, and Utility.com in US, ENMAX, Enbridge, and Toronto Hydro in Canada, British Petroleum in UK, and Origin Energy and United Energy in Australia.
Prior to Vitria, he was a senior manager with Perot Systems, a leading information technology consulting and global systems integration company. He was engaged in a number of major systems integration efforts in the utility industry including implementation of the California ISO, Midwest ISO, and the NERC IDC.
Prior to Perot Systems, he managed EPRI's Grid Operations and Planning R&D portfolio subscribed by over 100 electric utility companies. He played a key role in developing widely accepted standards for Transmission Services Costing, computation of Available Transfer Capability, quantification of Value of Service, definition of Ancillary Services, and OASIS information systems for transmission reservation. He also successfully managed the development of the Inter-control Center Communications Protocol (ICCP) that is widely used in the utility industry world-wide.
Earlier, he supervised Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s Systms Engineering Group. His team provided analytical and computer services for PG&E's operation and planning departments. He instigated and implemented the world’s leading resource scheduling system, HTO, which was the 1997 finalist of the prestigious Frantz Edelmen award for the best management science application world-wide.
Dr. Vojdani has a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He is a senior member of the IEEE, and serves on the Technical Committee of the Power Industry Computer Applications (PICA) conference. He has authored more than 50 technical articles and reports, and has addressed and chaired numerous workshops and technical panels around the globe on issues related to computer applications in the utility industry.