Speaker Biographies
Pat Everly - OES-NA, LLC Pat Everly is the president of OES-NA, LLC, which is a training-consultant company. He has over 40 years serving many roles in the electric industry. Pat started his career with Philadelphia Electric Company and spent 11 years in nuclear and fossil generation. Upon leaving PECO, Pat moved on to the PJM Interconnection as a System Operator and eventually the Operations Training Supervisor. Pat left PJM in 2001 to fill the newly created NERC Certification Manager position. In this role, he was responsible for the administrative duties for the NERC, WECC, and PJM certification programs. In 2003, he resigned his position at NERC to start OES-NA. Pat has previously served system operators as: Vice Chair - NERC Examination Working Group, Vice-president and Treasurer for APDA – Northeast Area, and is currently the Chair for the IEEE Working Group for System Operator Training. Pat has been a guest speaker at previous Short Courses, American Power Dispatcher Association Meetings, the IEEE and various Regional seminars aroun.und North America
Sam Holeman - Duke Energy Sam Holeman is vice president of transmission system planning and operations for Duke Energy. He leads the group responsible for the real-time monitoring and control of the company’s bulk electric transmission system. The other functional areas of system planning and operations include operations engineering, operations training, transmission planning, operational technology, operations services, transmission tariff and customer support. He assumed his current position in October 2016. Previously, Sam was Duke Energy’s director of engineering and training for the system planning and operations function. During his 37-year career with the company, he has held leadership positions in various areas of system planning and operations, including system operations, engineering and training. Mr. Holeman holds masters and bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering from Clemson University. He also earned a Master of Business Administration degree from Queens University. Sam is certified by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) as a system operator and is a registered professional engineer in North Carolina and South Carolina. He is a past chairman of the operating committees for both NERC and the SERC Reliability Corporation. SERC is a nonprofit regulatory authority that promotes effective and efficient administration of bulk power system reliability in all or parts of 16 central and southeastern states. Sam grew up in North Augusta, S.C. He and his wife, Jodi, have three daughters and five grandchildren. In addition to spending quality time with his family, he enjoys teaching children’s Life Group at his church.
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