UU #203 - AMI Information Technology and System Integration: The IT Project Hidden Within your AMI Initiative

Monday, March 22, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Presented by: Christopher Ash and Jim Savino

Course Description
With a large-scale AMI deployment, a utility is undertaking not only the physical deployment of new meters, communications technology and HAN equipment, but also one of the most challenging enterprise integration projects yet to be encountered. This course focuses on how to prepare for, plan and architect the AMI systems integration project, including:

• How to spend the first 90 days building a project management baseline and ensuring alignment of all vendors involved in the project.
• Providing an overview of new systems such as the MDMS, DRMS, DMS and customer energy management portal.
• How to develop a systems integration roadmap and organize the project into short duration business releases.
• Provide an inventory of the typical impacts to existing systems such as the utility CIS, GIS, OMS and asset management.
• Ensuring the IT architecture is smart grid ready, as AMI communications and data is increasingly used for grid operations.

Who should attend this course?

• Utility AMI, MDMS and demand response project managers and solution architects
• Project Management Office (PMO) personnel
• Utility IT directors and management
  

About the Instructor(s):
Christopher Ash is a principal consultant with Enspiria Solutions. He has provided consulting and enterprise integration expertise in the areas of advanced metering infrastructure, meter data management systems and demand response for utilities around the world that represent in excess of 30 million meters.

Jim Savino, PMP is a Project Management Institute (PMI) certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with over 25 years of software development/integration and systems engineering experience. His utility industry project management experience includes planning and deploying large scale systems including AMI, MDMS, GIS, OMS, MWM, CIS, IVR and SCADA.

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Full day course: $475
Half-day course: $300

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