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Education and Certifications <br />BS Electrical Engineering <br />Kansas State University (1986) <br />Mr. Rankin is an Electrical Engineer and experienced utility manager with 19 <br />years leading Water, Wastewater and Stormwater Utility Operation and <br />Maintenance, Capital Programs and Customer Service Operations. He is an <br />innovative big picture thinker with strong analytical reporting skills. He <br />developed utility business plans for reduced costs, improved services, and <br />sustainable asset replacement that was tied to financial capacity. <br />Relevant experiences and background include: <br />• Serving as a water subject matter expert for multiple advanced meter <br />infrastructure (AMI) assessments <br />• Planning and executing technology programs related to AM] and meter <br />data management systems (MDMS) that meet water utility goals and <br />objectives <br />• Matching advanced reporting capability to meet utility goals and <br />objectives, while preparing analytical reports for AMI related projects for <br />water and electric utilities <br />• Developing and accessing responses to request for proposal (RFP) <br />documents and technology procurement efforts especially in analytical <br />reporting and business intelligence <br />• Producing utility billing system data visualization reporting tools to <br />facilitate on -demand charts and graphs of utility customer billing <br />information <br />• Creating utility billing data discovery and audit tools for utility revenue <br />enhancement <br />• Successfully obtaining modest multi -year utility rate increases <br />• Establishing project tracking tools for complex, multi -discipline, multi - <br />project tracking <br />• Developing wastewater combined sewer overflow plan that minimizes <br />regulatory exposure <br />• Successfully addressing community red water issues resulting in drastic <br />reductions of customer complaints <br />• Creating an asset management strategy for complete fife cycle planning <br />of water, wastewater, storm water and levee utility infrastructure <br />• Directing major rehabilitations of water and wastewater plants <br />Project References <br />• Winston Salem, NC (Water <br />Business Intelligence Reporting) <br />• Long Beach Water Department, <br />CA (Water AMI Assessment, <br />Business Intelligence Reporting) <br />• Long Beach Gas €t Oil <br />Department, CA (Developing <br />cost allocation model to access <br />charges to multiple ANTI / MDMS <br />users) <br />• Alameda County Water District, <br />CA (AMI Assessment and <br />Evaluation of existing AM[) <br />• Chelan County Public Utility <br />District, WA (Assessment <br />Evaluation) <br />WaterOne, KS (Water RFP <br />Development and Vendor <br />Assessment) <br />• Mesa, AZ (Water, Gas, Electric <br />AMI Assessment) <br />• Palo Alto Utilities Department, <br />CA (Water, Gas, Electric AMI <br />Assessment) <br />• Oceanside Water Utilities <br />Department, CA (Water AMI <br />Assessment) <br />• New Orleans Sewerage and <br />Water Board, LA (Water system <br />Assessment) <br />• Fort Worth Water Department <br />(Business Processes Assessment) <br />