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Don - Energy Management System (EMS) Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) Analyst at AESO

Don safeguards the electricity grid as an EMS SCADA Analyst at AESO.

With dynamic troubleshooting and critical thinking, he ensures stability and reliable electricity, embracing opportunities and flexible work environments.

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I’m Don Salat and I’m an EMS data

analyst with the ISO

we monitor maintain troubleshoot in the

electrical grid and there’s a lot of

troubleshooting we have to do that gets

me excited because it’s Dynamic I can

troubleshoot I can figure things out I’m

a Problem Solver by nature and that

really makes my job exciting well with

the stability we’re always going to need

electricity we’re always going to have

to find new ways to make sure that we

have a reliable power and keep the

lights off so some of the things that

I’ve been able to do with my job is to

travel around the world and what’s great

about that is you get to see what

different organizations within the

electrical industry are doing just

because of the skills the relationships

and the information that I know about

our industry there’s opportunities if I

wanted to move into something completely

different within the organization

if you’re the type of person that wants

a dynamic job wants to be able to work

flexible hours and have a lot of

challenges and are critical thinker I

think this would be the right job for

you

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