Larry Dickerman has joined Burlington, Mass.-based KEMA Inc., a global provider of business and technical consulting for the energy and utility industry. Dickerman is joining KEMA's transmission and distribution (T&D) practice as a principal consultant, and is expected to further the firm's planning and engineering strengths, as well as contribute to KEMA's existing leadership in smart-grid integration services and solutions.
With over 35 years' industry experience, Dickerman is widely recognized as an industry leader and innovator in asset management, emergency-restoration planning and automation technology applications.
Dickerman will continue to build services in business planning and engineering, T&D information technology/automation integration, and asset management, all of which are important aspects that strengthen KEMA's smart-grid expertise to the industry.
‘For many in the industry, a future centered on the smart grid as an enabling technology is the only way to meet competing demands,’ says Hugo van Nispen, president and managing director of KEMA. ‘Larry's expertise, insight into and working knowledge of smart-grid and other automation technologies, integration strategy and asset management provides our clients additional, enterprise-wide strategic direction in developing the business cases to support their long-term capital plans and continues KEMA's commitment to delivering practical solutions to our clients.’
Prior to joining KEMA, Dickerman was technology director for American Electric Power's distribution services business unit. He also served as vice president of the company's distribution asset management division, where he was responsible for developing asset replacement, maintenance and enhancement programs.
SOURCE: KEMA Inc.
