Speaker Biographies
Jack Armstrong, P.E. - Duke Energy Progress 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.
Jeremey Roberts - Entergy Jeremy is a Senior Engineer for Outage Coordination at Entergy Operational Readiness. He has worked at Entergy for the last 18 years. Jeremy started in Real-Time Operations as a System Operator for 8 years, in addition to 3 years as a Lead Operator. For the last 7 years, he has been in the Entergy Operational Readiness group as the Entergy Arkansas Outage Planner. Jeremy has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Science degree in Engineering and Technology Management both from Louisiana Tech University.
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