EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, North Carolina State   University, 1972

REGISTRATION

Registered Professional Engineer: North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia

EXPERIENCE

After completing the requirements for a Bachelor Degree in civil engineering in 1972, Mr. Williams joined Carolina Power and Light Company, a public utility, in Raleigh, North Carolina.  At Carolina Power and Light Company, Mr. Williams spent his career in substation design within the Transmission Department.  He began in the area of site selection, the preparation of grading plans and oil containment systems.  He became a project engineer responsible for the design of transmission to distribution substations working on new and existing steel and wood structure substations.  Later, Mr. Williams become responsible for the design of transmission-to-transmission substations, switching stations and generating plant switchyards. 

Mr. Williams worked closely with project managers and planning personnel to formulate plans, estimates and schedules for many projects on the transmission system.  He has worked on new 500kv, 230kv and 115kv facilities as well as additions and upgrades to many substations.

RECENT PROJECTS

The following are examples of Mr. Williams’s recent projects:

• Georgia Power, North Jefferson 115kV Substation increase-capacity.

• Duke Energy, Homestead 115kV Substation increase-capacity. 

• Greenville Utilities Winterville 115kV Substation increase-capacity. 

• Zebulon 230kv Substation- worked with steel supplier to design tapered tubular structures to replace lattice steel and guyed direct buried steel pole structures 

• Roxboro Steam Electric Plant Switchyard-replace 230kv, 3000 a, 63ka circuit breakers with 230kv, 3000a, 80ka circuit breakers

• Walters Hydro Electric Plant Switchyard-upgrade 115kv switchyard by replacing switches, circuit breakers and removal of unnecessary equipment and structures