Alexander Bulgakov

A Protection and Control Engineering leveraging 15 years of experience supporting electrical engineering projects, including 11 years in utilities. A solid track record of efficiently responding to customer demands and achieving milestones with expertise in protection relays, distribution network planning, substation and line equipment. Professional engineer in Alberta and Washington State. 

Eversource Energy, Manchester, NH                                                                                                                 2020 – present

Senior Protection and Control Engineer

1. Create new Protection and Control system designs in accordance with PRC Standards.
2. Perform coordination studies using ASPEN software.
3. Analyze protection system operations during transmission and distribution system disturbances.
4. Support the development of standards and procedures for operation and maintenance of the transmission and distribution system.
5. Actively support storm and/or emergency restoration assignments. 

Alstom, GE, Montreal, QC                                                                                                                                    2015 – 2020

Lead Protection and Control Engineer

1. Designed relay settings files. Provided SCADA and GOOSE database. 
2. Studied protection coordination (transformer, line, generator). 
3. Led factory and site acceptance test. Prepared test procedures forms. Led testing teams.
4. Trained Nalcor on relays programming and maintenance; Micom and SEL relays
5. Provided troubleshooting and investigated relays misacting.

Projects: 

1. Nalcor’s 230 kV DC link between Labrador and Newfoundland: programmed and tested approximately 250 protection relays at five transmission substations. Most relays were: SEL-411L, SEL-487E, SEL-487B, P546, P643, P746, P841, P143, REB-670, CPR04
2. Managed a few smaller projects with diverse GE relays: 845, 889, 850, B30, B90, T60, G60, C60 etc.

AMEC, Vancouver, BC                                                                                                                                            2013-2015

Electrical Design Engineer                                                                        

1. Prepared SCADA network block diagrams, panel layout, one-line diagram, AC 3-line diagrams, DC diagram, panel wiring diagrams for BC Hydro (AMEC’s primary client).
2. Prepared AC and DC point lists for SCADA alarms PLCs and SDCs. 
3. Prepared safety risk assessment for panel installation work. Led safety seminars.

Projects: 

1. New 230 kV substation of BC Hydro in Surrey area. Included SEL-411L, SEL-321, SEL-587Z, SEL-487E, SEL-487B. 

Quanta Services, Calgary, AB                                                                                                                               2011-2012

Protection and Control Engineer

1. Calculated settings and coordination studies for line, bus, transformer, feeder protection for Quanta’s clients: AltaLink, ATCO Electric, Nexen, TransAlta. 
2. Selected equipment specifications and completed purchase orders. 
3. Modeled system in ASPEN One Liner. Relays of GE, SEL, ABB, Siemens.

EPCOR, Edmonton, AB                                                                                                                                           2011

Protection and Control Engineer

1. Designed protection (DC, AC three- and single-line drawings), control and metering systems, panel layouts for electrical substations of 15 to 240 kV in the city of Edmonton area.
2. Led site testing and commissioning; design team of technologists, co-ops, and EITs. Modeled in ETAP.
3. Supported procurement and sourcing for vendor quotations. Areva, GE, ABB, SEL, Siemens relays.

ATCO Electric, Grande Prairie, AB                                                                                                                        2008-2010

Planning Technologist

1. Created power system models in PSS/ADEPT and CYME Dist; verified accuracy for 25 and 7.2 kV lines.
2. Coordinated fuses (Kearney, Bay-O-Net), reclosers (ABB, Cooper, Hubbell), Elastimold MVI, Westinghouse and Schweitzer protective relays.
3. Conducted flow analysis, fault analysis. Made proposals on load addition, upgrade, motors VFD.

Unified Energy System (primary transmission company), Veliky Novgorod, Russia                             2005-2007

Protection, Control and Automation Engineer

1. Provided settings for protective relays in 110 kV network.
2. Designed AC, DC diagrams for 110/35/10 kV substations in AutoCAD. Provided site commissioning.
3. Tested the relay with Omicron current injector. Relays: Siemens, ABB, Schneider, Sirius, Mekhanotronic.

B.Sc. in Electronics Engineering, Novgorod State University, 2001

GE Multilin Systems Training- GE, Markham, ON, 2016

Micom Protection Systems. Training - Alstom, Stafford, Great Britain., 2015

Power System Protection of Transmission Stations seminar. UofA, Edmonton, AB, 2011

Cooper’s Power Distribution, CYME courses with ATCO Electric. Edmonton, AB, 2008

Protection Relays, Energy Institute, S.Petersburg, 2005

Publication in the Technics and Technology magazine, Moscow, Russia, 2002

Practice in Lodz Polytechnic Institute, Lodz, Poland, 2000