FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Melissa Sease

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Melissa Sease
[email protected]
706.498.0517
Perez and Wertz Join SOS Compliance Team
Linda Perez and Bruce Wertz Bring Compliance Experience to Utilities
CHARLOTTE, NC, January 8, 2015 – SOS Intl (SOS) announced the addition of
two compliance consultants to their compliance team. Linda Perez and Bruce Wertz
began work with SOS on January 8.
Linda Perez has more than 25 years’ experience leading, facilitating, and supporting
compliance operations and engineering efforts in large, grid-management system
environments. Her efforts have focused on compliance issues in the power industry and
helped facilitate a culture of compliance within organizations.
Prior to Linda’s association with SOS, she worked as a consultant where she assessed
client compliance with the North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s (NERC)
Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) and 693 standards to report and address
deficiencies or gaps. She prepared Reliability Standard Audit Worksheets for
compliance audits, wrote client policies, procedures, and guidelines to establish
compliance, and served as a subject matter expert during compliance audits.
Linda worked six years with the Western Electricity Coordinating Council managing the
Reliability Coordinator function for the Western Interconnection. Prior to that, she
assisted NERC with readiness evaluations of the Florida Reliability Coordinating
Council entities and helped conduct on-site compliance audits among other
responsibilities in her role as Manager of Compliance.
Bruce Wertz brings a breadth of compliance knowledge to SOS through his wide range
of experience in the electric utility industry. His successful track record in performing
due diligence, designing operational processes and procedures, developing process
improvements, audit preparation and documentation controls, assessing compliance,
and developing best practices brings an additional dimension to the SOS compliance
team.
During his six-year engagement with the Public Service Electric and Gas, Bruce
developed, implemented, and managed the reliability compliance programs applicable
to the Texas generation assets, developed and maintained an effective and reliable
system to ensure compliance with NERC and Electric Reliability Council of Texas
(ERCOT) reliability standards, and managed all matters related to Sarbanes-Oxley.
Bruce brings additional experience through his nine years of work as a NERC/ERCOT
consultant while acting as a conduit for clients to ensure compliance with NERC, CIP,
and ERCOT-mandated requirements. He also developed management systems to assist
utilities in demonstrating compliance with those standards.
He has managed the internal and external audit processes necessary to maintain
consistent standards and lead teams to respond to potential inquiry, spot check,
compliance investigation, event analysis, and audit requirements for a variety of clients.
Most recently, Bruce worked on two NERC audits with Texas Reliability Entity and one
with the SERC Reliability Corporation.
“Both Linda and Bruce bring a depth of experience and perspective to SOS’s compliance
program. We are fortunate to have them join our team so we can better serve our clients
in complying with NERC standards,” commented Rocky Sease, CEO of SOS.
About SOS Intl:
Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., SOS Intl is a leading provider of training and
consulting to the power industry. SOS rigorously tracks and interprets NERC Reliability
Standards and expertly translates them into customized education and compliance
consulting, helping to manage risk and ensure reliability for the North American power
grid.
SOS offers classroom and online courses, accompanied by sophisticated computer
simulation. All are designed using the latest systematic approach to training, as
required by NERC. Since 2002, SOS has provided NERC-approved continuing
education and compliance consulting to thousands of employees of the Bulk Electric
System across the United States and Canada. www.sosintl.com
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