Alexandra Steiger

2005 ST RT 756
Moscow, OH 45153
513-225-8402
alexandrasteiger@gmail.com
SUMMARY
9+ years of Senior Consultant and Senior Test Lead for Smart Grid/Meter and Utility Implementations with in
electric/gas /water deployments.
SMART METER APPLICATIONS
Oracle - MDM, CC&B, ODM, OMS, MWM 2012 Enablement 2.0 Boot Camp, MDM Fundamentals, Oracle
Utilities Application Framework v4.x - Configuration Tools Boot Camp, CC&B Implementers Training Basic
& Advanced
L+G Command Center
Silver Springs Networks Utility IQ
Smart Meters GE, L+G, ABB, Elster, Itron, Echolon
Elster EnergyAxis MAS, Metercat
Itron Enterprise Edition Meter Data Management & MV90, MeterMate
Itron OpenWay Collection Engine
Hewlett Packard Quality Center (HPQC)
ACLARA STAR Network AMI System
Demand Respone, Home Area Network
ANSI C12:22
Zigbee Allience
NERC & FERC
LMS Learning Maestro System

PROJECT DEPLOYMENT UTILITY EXPERIENCE

San Francisco, California, Pacific Gas & Electric

Steamboat Springs, Colorado, Mt. Warner Water District
Huntington Beach, California, Municipal Water District of Orange County
West Carteret, North Carolina, West Carteret Water Corporation
Anderson, Indiana, Municipal Light and Power Utility
Hamtramck, Michigan, DTE Energy
Pueblo, Colorado, Mountain State Supply Co.
Valencia-Phoenix, Arizona, Global Water
Middletown, Ohio, Water District, Johnson Controls Inc.
Orlando, Florida, Central Florida Gas
Fort Drum, NY
Woodstock, Ontario, Canada
St Thomas, Ontario, Canada
Wellington North, Ontario, Canada
Lakeland, Ontario, Canada
Midland, Ontario, Canada
Hydro One, Canada
Parowan, Utah
Augusta Systems, PA
Ocala, FL
Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
Lompoc, CA
City of Lodi, Lodi, CA
Greenfield Power and Light Greenfield, IN
Calwater Maui, Hawaii
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Aqua Gettysburg, PA
USS Bainbridge Water, Bainbridge, IN
City of Westerville Electric and Water, Westerville, OH
City of Cleveland, Cleveland OH
Tipp City, OH
Port Huron Water, Port Huron, MI
University of Georgia, GA
Progress Energy, St. Petersburg, FL
Duquesne Light Company, Pittsburgh PA
American Electric Power ( AEP OH), Columbus, Ohio

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Lead MDM Oracle Functional Analyst
09/14 03/15
American Electric Power (AEP) Columbus Ohio
Support critical projects on the Oracle Utilities Applications Roadmap as the Oracle MDM Functional Analyst documenting and analyzing requirements, contributing to solution design, completing application
configuration, performing system testing, assisting with data conversion, interface design requirements, report
requirements, implementation and post go-live support.
Developed MDM Fast To Dos, Test Cases and Training Material
Direct MDM Lead for training department and testing team for Oracle MDM.
Hands on experience with multiple CIS with 11 Coops (L+G & SSN)
Develop and interpret information and products to assist customer organizations with decision-making and to
deliver functional and technical solutions on moderately complex customer engagements.
Admin for Learning Maestro System.
Lead for HPQC defect tracking.
Senior Principal Consultant MDM & CC&B
07/12 11/13
Pittsburgh, PA Duquesne Light
Conduct training for 600+ utility employees, CC&B, MDM and ODM
Analyze requirements and deliver functional and technical solutions.
Implement products and technologies to meet post-sale customer needs within the utility fields of
gas/water/electric smart meter/smart grid.
Specialize in Product Lifecycle Management implementations, focusing on Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle
Management (PLM) solutions, industry/PLM best practices, multiple PLM business processes (such as new
product introduction, Engineering Change Management, and other product-related processes) or technology
designs within a product/technology family.
Develop and supply optimal time, cost or logistics networks for product life cycle evaluation, review or
implementation.
Participate in preparation of project proposals, develop system and user documentation.
Managed multiple testing environments, collaborating with environment management team.
Created and developed training material and tracked all training Admin for LMS
Senior Lead Testing Analyst
02/12 07/12
Progress Energy, St Petersburg, FL
Responsible for analyzing smart meter vendors, testing and evaluation AMI meters and related information
systems and servers for EnergyWise Program using Silver Spring.
Unit, Functional, System, Performance, Technical and Operational testing. Configure, test and evaluate
multiple forms of meters and environments; manufacturers electric meter testing/calibration including smart
grid servers & technologies.
Executing and reporting test cases to the testing schedule, recording software defects in defect tracking tool
and actively participating in defect resolution and providing test status reports to test team.
Test Script/Scenario/Case Development and test management support.
Training technical team/engineering group, and utility personnel.
Daily reporting and leading weekly status update meetings.
Daily use of HP Quality Center to manage testing and maintain traceability and defects.
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Senior Technical Project Manager

06/10 02/11
Itron, Remote
On site project engineer implementing RF meter reading systems for new utilities for water and electric and
antenna site selection and site design documentation.
Supervised and trained third party contractors for construction of antenna sites and meter installation.
Developed work procedures for testing and mitigation of the RF network and the meters to utility.
Pre-Sales Engineer: On-site representative for presentations, training of companys products, solutions and
perform all Project Manager duties.
End User Training and testing software.
Senior Smart Grid Project Manager /Trainer
08/08 06/10
Elster
Worked directly with new deployments for utilities, muni's, IOUs and non IOUs.
Execution of PM processes and deliverables.
Execution of test scripts and test cases.
Management of sponsor expectations.
Ensuring that project requirements are documented and achieved.
Demonstrated effective PM skills, especially planning, staffing, and directing work efforts.
Set up hardware for training system, meters and software of new deployments of smart meters and grid
elements such as; Voltage, Demand, and IHD.
Trained utility employees, third party vendors and contactors on hardware/software.
Worked with utility IT and Support team to trouble shoot hardware/software issues in field and office.
Created training material for each new utility- training manuals, training presentations and training guides for
meters, GUI, handhelds and IHDs.
Smart Grid Consultant
2009 2013
Standards & Poor's Vista Researchs
Consults with institutional money managers who are analyzing investment opportunities.
Technical Project Manager/ Trainer
2007- 2008
Aclara
Managed the installation projects and delivered customer training for commercial and residential customers in
many various cities for Utilities in electric/gas/water
Created new training material, handouts, student guides and user manual with each new client.
Facilitated the training for new implementations.
Installed software/firmware for the Utilities and Municipalities for the use of the new web interface so they
could track and learn how to operate their new AMR system.
Trained installers on installation of new endpoints and programming endpoints via Handhelds and optimal
location for RF output, and troubleshoot endpoints, DCUs.
Project Coordinator
2008
First Energy Nuclear Utility
Trained employees for basic operation of power stations involving the conversion of nuclear power into
electrical energy.
Oversaw workers progress and work environments are on schedule.
Instrument calibration, source checks and training employees with use of tools or instruments used in the field
First Energy Utility
2007
Performed post use cleaning, maintenance and inspection of equipment and tools. Trained in nuclear energy,
Hazmat, Decontaminated and Instrument training.
EDUCATION
M.B.S., Project Management, anticipated Jan 2016, Columbia Southern University
B.S., Business Studies, International Business, June 2010, Columbia Southern University.
A.S., International Business Trade Management June 2001, Cincinnati State College
A.S., Business Finance, June 2001, Cincinnati State College
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