Biographical Sketches

Jorge Miguel Ordacgi F.  took his Electrical Engineer degree from Universidade Federal Fluminense. During his career as a protection engineer (1974 – 1998) with FURNAS, ITAIPU Hydro and ELETROBRAS he worked on setting calculations and analysis of G&T systems.He later joined Brazilian ISO managing the implementation of SPSs and now he is involved with Control Center automation, SCADA and EMS. 1975 – 1992 he taught Power System Protection at Universidade Veiga de Almeida.

2004 – 2008 Jorge was the Brazilian Member of SC B5 – Protection and Automation. He received a CIGRÉ TC Award in 2006. He is Advisor of PAC World Magazine.

Alexandre Garcia Massaud took his Electrical Engineer degree from Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro. During his career as a power system engineer (1971 – 1995) with LIGHT, ELETROSUL and ELETROBRAS he worked on dynamic system analysis of Brazilian power systems. He later joined Brazilian ISO dimensioning and aiding the implementation of SPSs.

He is individual member of CIGRÉ since 1995.

Fernando Aquino Viotti received his Electrical Engineer degree from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in 1970. He started working in 1971 at Companhia Paranaense de Energia Elétrica, applying protective relaying and doing disturbance analysis. In 1976 he joined IESA, a Morrison Knudsen Company, as a project engineer. In 1979, he joined ELETROBRÁS, doing relaying setting calculations and disturbance analysis.

From 1991 to 1996, he was the Chairman of Protection WG of GCOI, a Group for coordinating interconnected operation. In 1999 he joined Brazilian ISO (ONS) as the P&C Manager. He is a Regular Member of Brazilian CIGRÉ SC B5.

Roberto Campos de Lima took his Electrical Engineer degree from Universidade Federal Fluminense in 1980. He has been working at FURNAS Centrais Elétricas S/A since 1980 in protection and in development, implementation and operation of Wide Area Protection. Currently, he is the Manager of Power System Protection Division.