Speakers

Jason leads the Utility Investment Planning business line at 1898 & Co., part of Burns & McDonnell. In this role, Jason is responsible for business development, marketing, staff training and development, solution and product development, and overall project delivery within the business line. The Utility Investment Planning business line supports electric utilities in developing long-term investment plans and portfolios to meet one or all of the following objectives: 1) aging infrastructure, 2) reliability, 3) resilience or system hardening, and 4) electrification. The business line owns solutions and tools around each of offerings to produce data-driven decisions. Jason is the main architect and solution developer of the data-driven analytic solutions for each of the four offerings.  Jason has 16 years of extensive experience in performing business case evaluation on a variety of project types helping utility clients with difficult investment decisions. Jason also has a deep financial and economic analysis background and specializes in business case evaluation and risk assessment and management for utility client. Jason has extensive experience modeling risk for utility industry clients. His modeling experience includes developing complex and innovative risk analysis models using industry leading risk analysis software tools employing Monte Carlo simulation and Optimization algorithms. His experience includes performing risk and economic analysis engagements for several multi-billion-dollar capital projects and large utility systems for aging infrastructure, system resilience, reliability and distribution automation, and electrification. Jason also serves as expert witness for many of these engagements supporting the full regulatory process.