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Board meetings from 2007 to 2010 in
my capacity as an ieee Pes longRange Planning committee member. i
have, therefore, seen the workings of the
governing Board from close quarters
and have the experience and perspective to serve as the Board secretary. if
elected, i intend to work closely with
the president to increase Pes visibility
internationally, to set an agenda for the
society that emphasizes the continued
development of impactful programs that
benefit our members and help them advance in their professional careers, and
to emphasize and facilitate teamwork
among our members to bring innovative
ideas to fruition.
As a past section and chapter chair,
i am cognizant of the importance of a
local Pes presence. As secretary, i will
work closely with the vice-president
chapters to support and raise the profile of our chapters worldwide. i have
been an active volunteer of the society
since the early 1990s. i am passionate
about volunteering for the Pes and
look forward to continue to serve the
society in a new role as secretary.

Cat Wong
cat Wong is the
manager of customer product engineering at entergy, where she is
leading the planning, design, and
implementation activities of distributed
energy resources, including photovoltaics, battery storage, and microgrids. she
has 18 years of industry experience in
the area of integration of distributed energy resources, PMu deployment, transmission and distribution planning,
protection analysis and standard development, and hardware-in-the-loop
simulations. Prior to joining entergy,
Wong worked with the real-time simulation development team at the Hydro
Québec Research institute, Montréal,
canada. she received her B.s. degree
in engineering with first class honors
and a master's degree of philosophy in
electrical engineering from Hong Kong
Polytechnic university, china, and she
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completed her Ph.D. degree in electrical
engineering at tulane university. she is
pursuing her e.M.B.A. degree at tulane
university, which she is expected to complete in 2019. she is a registered Professional engineer in louisiana and a project management professional.
IEEE Activities and
Accomplishments

Wong has been an active ieee Member
since 2004 and became a senior Member
in 2015. she is currently the ieee Pes
Region 5 representative and committee
member of the ieee u.s. Research and
Development Policy committee, representing Pes. For the ieee Pes new
Orleans section, she was the gOlD vice
chair in 2011, chapter chair in 2012 and
2013, director in 2014, vice chair in 2015,
and chair in 2016 and 2017. she was the
vice chair of the ieee green technologies conference technical Program in
2015 and representative of the ieee Pes
Region 5 chapter in 2016.
During her term as the ieee Pes
new Orleans section chapter chair,
she organized more than 15 technical and educational meetings, including four ieee Distinguished lecturers
from Pes. the ieee Pes new Orleans
chapter received a high-performance
chapter award in both years under her
leadership. in 2014, she worked with a
team of Young Professionals to organize an ieee Distinguished lecture
with Dr. ed schweitzer at the new
Orleans World War ii museum. the
event was highlighted in T&D World
and IEEE Power & Energy Magazine.
since becoming involved at the Region level, Wong has actively communicated with Pes chapters in Region 5,
and four chapters were formed or reinstated in 2017. As the ieee Pes new
Orleans section chair, Wong brought
new Young Professional members into
the executive committee to grow into
future leaders and worked with the
ieee u.s. organizing committee for
the first-ever u.s.-wide Future leaders
Forum, held at tulane university.
she received the Outstanding Professional and leadership Award and James
W. Joyner Fireman's Award from the

ieee Pes new Orleans section in 2013
and 2014 and the Young Professional
Member Award from Region 5 in 2017.
Statement

energy is needed by everyone, and it is
important to provide safe, affordable,
and reliable power. the Pes plays an
important role by offering an environment for innovative and hard-working
individuals and leaders to bring in
new ideas, develop strategies, and ultimately successfully implement those
ideas in the industry. Our industry is
at the crucial point where disruption is
happening. it's like the eras when we
saw the switch from carriages to cars,
flip phones to smartphones, and, now,
centralized to distributed energy resources. i'm very excited to be part of
it and to witness and contribute to those
changes. For the last two years, i have
served as an ieee Pes Region 5 representative, and it has been a great experience to learn about different activities
and develop relationships within the
society. i am honored to be nominated
as secretary for the Board and to continue to serve our society. i will continue to support and serve the Pes to
maximize benefits for our members.

Jonathan Sykes
Jonathan sykes is
the senior manager at system Protection and test
at Pacific gas and
electr ic, in san
Francisco, california. sykes received his academic training from the university of Arizona,
tucson, in 1982 and has worked in the
electric power industry for more than 35
years. He is a Fellow of the ieee and a
licensed Professional engineer. sykes
has always leveraged technology in
collaboration to close gaps and champion success. in the 1990s, his teams
provided the first integrated protective
relay/Rtu/scADA systems in Arizona. in the 2000s, he pioneered the first
wide-area protection scheme based on
iec 61850 gOOse messaging, and in
the 2010s, his team implemented one of
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