Speaker Biographies
Jack W. Armstrong - Duke Energy Jack Armstrong has worked for Duke Energy for 18 years directly out of college, beginning as a System Operator for then-Progress Energy and eventually supporting System Operations as an Operations Planning engineer until 2021. Recently, Jack has worked for Duke’s Transmission Planning and Operations Strategy group; developing and implementing strategic plans which allow Duke to meet its carbon reduction goals. Jack has a wealth of experience in System Operations supporting activities such as NERC compliance, ATC calculation, tariff administration and all manner of powerflow studies. Jack has participated on many electric industry groups including being a member of the NAESB Business Practices Subcommittee, the Eastern Interconnection Data Sharing Network (EIDSN) IDC Working Group as well as the SERC Near-Term and Operations Planning Working Groups. Jack acted as Chair of the SERC NTWG from 2017-2019, leading study improvement changes such as the adoption of the Power-GEM TARA study software to support SERC reliability assessments. As a member of the IDCWG, Jack has worked to ensure the congestion management procedure, or TLR, is implemented with the new Parallel Flow Visualization functionality – ensuring reliable and equitable TLR issuance by the IDC. Jack lives in Raleigh, NC with his wife Danielle, two kids, two dogs and two guinea pigs. He enjoys spending time at the beach with family and the occasional deep-sea fishing trip. He enjoys exercise and can talk at length about CrossFit to whomever will listen. Jack graduated from North Carolina State University in Raleigh with degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering, is a NERC Certified System Operator at the RC level, and is a licensed Professional Engineer in the state of North Carolina. Joseph J. Januszewski, III - E-ISAC Joe serves as a Senior Cyber Security Analyst at the North American Electric Reliability Corporation's Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center (E-ISAC). He began to see the interaction between the Internet and industrial control devices while at the National Institutes of Health in 2006. He took part in the design of the power system for a proposed new consolidated data center at NIH, and applied the defensive security experience that he was providing to application servers and their network components (switches, routers, and firewalls) for over a decade at that point. He realized that those same underlying protocols could be used by an adversary to impact, not only the function of the computing systems that our nation relied upon, but also the energy infrastructure that those systems, in turn, depended on. Subsequently, he became a member of the NIST Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP), and contributed to the development of “Guidelines for Smart Grid Cyber Security” (NISTIR 7628), the SGIP Electromagnetic Interoperability Issues Working Group White Paper “Electromagnetic Compatibility and Smart Grid Interoperability Issues” (SGIP 2012-005), and Revision 2 of the NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-82, “Guide to Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Security.” This experience lead to Joe’s work at Cisco in the System Test Group at the Columbia Lab on the FirePOWER next-generation firewall, including support for utilities, such as American Electric Power. Through contacts he developed at the Department of Homeland Security, the Pacific Northwest National Lab, and various utilities, he then worked with Michael Assante (after his INL Aurora generator demonstration) and his team on “Developing Secure Power Systems Professional Competence” (PNNL-22641), Tim Conway, and Robert M. Lee (at SANS during the attacks on electrical infrastructure in Ukraine), and again the following year with Ben Miller and Rob Lee at Dragos during the aftermath of CRASHOVERRIDE, as well as with several impacted equipment manufacturers. Joe is a member of the Industrial Control Security Joint Working Group (ICSJWG), a Fellow of the National Board of Information Security Examiners, a Senior Member of the IEEE, Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi, Association of Computing Machinery, International Society of Automation, and the Washington Academy of Sciences.
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