About SynchroGrid

Our Purpose, Passion, and Leadership

SynchroGrid is an engineering consulting company that specializes in system protection for generation, transmission, and distribution utilities. We have a legacy of providing innovative solutions that simplify your daily operations.

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We empower our clients to maintain the reliability of the power system through our innovative system protection services.

Our Vision

SynchroGrid’s core focus
is to produce simplicity, consistency, quality, and reliability for system protection.

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Why SynchroGrid?

Our commitment to continuously innovating

SynchroGrid offers its diverse clientele a combination of forward-thinking engineers, time-tested standardized procedures, pioneering processes, and strong partnerships with industry leaders to provide a unique suite of state-of-the-art services in system protection that enhance operations. We are also a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) owned business.

We are committed to continuously developing distinctive and innovative solutions for our current processes, employing automation to lead the way to a more sustainable, reliable power industry.

SynchroGrid is continued to continuous innovation.

SynchroGrid’s History

Centrally located in the heart of Texas, SynchroGrid is an engineering firm that offers electric utilities a wide range of innovative, professional solutions in system protection for generation, transmission, and distribution systems.

The company was founded by Joe Perez in 2012. Joe graduated from Texas A&M University with a degree in electrical engineering and worked in utility and manufacturing before starting his own company. These experiences provided Joe with a unique, holistic view of the power industry. With an original focus on design and relay settings, Joe saw opportunities for increased efficiency in the engineers’ workflow and soon added a software team to automate system protection processes.

Overall, SynchroGrid’s development embodies how we approach every project—a commitment to quality work and a focus on innovation that seek to streamline, standardize, and optimize power system processes with the ultimate goal of increasing the reliability of the power grid.

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Meet Our Leadership Team

Joe Perez

CEO and Founder

Joe Perez

CEO and Founder

Joe Perez, P.E., has been in the protection industry for more than 20 years. Having spent time in the utility, manufacturing, and consulting fields, he recognized the inefficiency of the current processes for developing drawings and relay settings, which made them highly prone to error. Joe founded SynchroGrid in 2012 and, soon after, started the subsidiary company, SynchroSoft, which focuses on developing and customizing automation solutions for the power industry. He received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University in 2003, and he has authored and presented numerous technical papers at major relay conferences across the United States.

Jacob Anderson

V.P. of Engineering - Texas

Jacob Anderson

V.P. of Engineering - Texas

Jacob Anderson more than 20 years of experience in the power industry. His experience includes complex and electrical system analysis such as generator and auxiliary system studies for large generating stations, load flow, short-circuit, ground grid, relay coordination, dynamic motor starting, DC systems, arc-flash, harmonics, computations, and grounding studies. In protective relaying, Jacob has broad experience in medium voltage and low voltage systems (including coordination studies, relay programming, and start-up and commissioning), generator relay settings for coal-/gas-fired generators, utility distribution fuse coordination, distributed generation, substation protection schemes, and transmission line protection. Jacob has extensive project management experience and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).

Steve Yanosik

V.P. of Engineering - Colorado

Steve Yanosik

V.P. of Engineering - Colorado

Steve Yanosik, P.E., has nearly 20 years of substation design experience, with an emphasis in protection and control design. He has led SynchroGrid’s expansion to the Northwest and has opened a new office in Denver, Colorado. Steve has extensive experience with protection logic settings and development, as well as SCADA programming. His other technical responsibilities include detailed design and development of substation arrangements, control house panel layout and design, substation schematic modification, and QA checks. Steve is a registered professional engineer in Texas, Ohio, New Mexico, North Dakota, Illinois, Michigan, and Wyoming.

Reza Teshnizi​

V.P. of Software Development​

Reza Teshnizi​

V.P. of Software Development​

Dr. Reza Teshnizi brings a unique combination of academic excellence and industry expertise to our team. He holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Texas A&M University, with research focused on topological analysis, formal methods, and robotics. His work spans both private and government sectors, including contributions to the U.S. Army Futures Command and FactSet Inc. Dr. Teshnizi has developed advanced behavior modeling algorithms for the U.S. Army, created the first algorithm for multi-robot navigation under topological constraints, and led software engineering teams to reduce technical debt in large-scale systems. His research has been published in leading AI and robotics journals, and he was awarded first place at the City of Houston’s annual hackathon for a GIS application presented to Mayor Annise Parker.

 

 

 

Kevin Priddy

Project Manager

Kevin Priddy

Project Manager

Kevin Priddy, P.E., has been at SynchroGrid for more than 10 years, executing many successful projects as a lead engineer and project manager. He has extensive experience in protection and control design, relay setting development, relay coordination, IEC 61850 automation, substation design, standardization of drawings and settings, standardization of processes, and NERC PRC compliance. Kevin graduated from Texas A&M University with a B.S. degree in electrical engineering and has participated in several major relay conferences during his time at SynchroGrid.

Seth Woodard

Principal Engineer

Seth Woodard

Principal Engineer

Seth Woodard, P.E., has been in the power industry for nearly 20 years and has extensive substation design experience. He has been responsible for the execution of various high-voltage substation design projects ranging from 12.47kV through 345kV. His duties include all aspects of physical and protective relaying design, including control houses, relay panels, transformer and breaker upgrades, grounding design, and more. Seth also has experience in substation grounding analysis using both CDEGS and WinIGS software. He graduated with a B.S. in electrical engineering from Louisiana State University in 2005 and is a registered professional engineer in Texas.