Speaker Biographies
Joel Rogers - SERC Joel Rogers joined SERC Reliability Corporation as a Compliance Auditor in June 2014. Previously, Mr. Rogers was the Compliance Administrator for Cooperative Energy formerly known as South Mississippi Electric Power Association (SMEPA) in Hattiesburg, MS. In this role, Joel provided counsel to management and directed operations, planning, and critical infrastructure protection staff regarding NERC Reliability Standards compliance. Before taking on the Compliance Administrator role, Joel worked in operations planning for 3 years and Transmission Planning for 1 year. During this time, Joel performed engineering studies, prepared publications, and trained System Operators on peak loading, blackstart restoration, and abnormal transmission system conditions. Joel maintained power system models for both operations and transmission planning and he participated in the development of long-range transmission plans. Joel represented Cooperative Energy on SERC’s Long Term Study Group, Operations Planning Subcommittee, and Near Term Study Group. Prior to joining Cooperative Energy, Mr. Rogers worked for Southern Company Services in Transmission Planning and Mississippi Power Company in Distribution Engineering and Operations. Mr. Rogers graduated from Mississippi State University with a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, with an emphasis in power, in December 2005. Joel is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Mississippi, a NERC Certified System Operator at the Reliability Coordinator level, and a Certified Government Auditing Professional. Mr. Rogers served in the U.S. Navy from 1995 to 2000 as an aviation electrician on the F/A – 18 Hornet. Travis Moran - SERC Travis Moran is a Senior Reliability and Security Advisor at SERC Reliability Corporation. Travis Moran is a retired law enforcement professional with over 26 years of enforcement, security, and intelligence experience. During his tours of duty, Travis worked both domestically and internationally on a variety of criminal matters including narcotics and weapon trafficking organizations, terrorism, mass murders, explosives, and bank and immigration fraud. Upon retirement from federal service, Moran became a Senior Investigator with one of the nation's largest utilities, where he was certified in the Continuous Risk Management (CRM) system to conduct counter-terrorism security risk assessments on the utility’s critical assets. Moran later served as the Senior Physical Security Specialist for the North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s (NERC) Electricity Information Sharing & Analysis Center (E-ISAC), whereby he helped found and lead the utility sector's Physical Security Advisory Group (PSAG) dedicated to identifying and protecting the North American power grid (GRID) from acts of international and domestic terrorism. The PSAG led the foundation of the utility sector's first Design Basis Threat (DBT) in concert with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The DBT is currently in use and is updated annually to identify and enumerate threats to the Grid. Travis has additionally become a nationally recognized subject matter expert regarding threats posed to companies from unmanned aircraft systems (UAS/drones). Travis holds a Master of Arts in Criminology, Law, and Society from George Mason University, a Master of Science in Criminology from Indiana State University, and a Bachelor of Business Administration from James Madison University.
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