Scott Neumann is CTO of UISOL. He is a systems architect with over 27 years experience in the electrical utility industry. His experience includes development of energy management system applications, and definition and development of open system architectures, modeling, and systems integration. He is internationally recognized as an expert in the area of T&D open system architecture.
During the course of his career, Scott has accumulated a significant amount of experience in the areas of architecture, business process management, enterprise application integration and information modeling relevant to systems used by electric utilities. This experience spans distribution, energy management systems and energy markets, including systems such as:
Scott has been an active contributor to a variety of industry standards efforts, including the CIM, IEC and MultiSpeak. He is currently the US chairman for Technical Committee 57 of the International Electrotechnical Commission. IEC TC57 is responsible for standards related to power systems management and associated information exchanges. Within TC57, he serves as the US technical lead for Working Group 14, which is developing standards for the integration of distribution systems, as well as membership on other TC57 working groups.
Prior to UISOL, Scott was a founder of CES International, responsible for architecture of the Centricity Outage Management System. Prior to CES, he was an application developer and system architect for Empros (a division of Control Data, now part of Siemens).
During his career, he has participated in a wide variety of electrical transmission and distribution projects, with customers that include Pacific Gas & Electric, Western Area Power Administration, Silicon Valley Power, Xcel Energy, Egyptian Electicity Authority, Toronto Hydro, Georgia Power, Alabama Power, Gulf Power, Duke Power, Northeast Utilities, Consolidated Edison, Northern Ireland Electric, Electric Supply Board of Ireland, Florida Power and Light, Kansas City Power and Light and EPRI, to name a few.
Scott is also a member of the IEEE Power Engineering and Computer societies. Scott graduated with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota.