 Robert
(Bob) McFetridge,
Regional Sales Application Engineer
8879 Flower Hill Road
Middlesex, North Carolina 27557
(919) 284-1510
Mr. Robert (Bob) McFetridge is the Regional Sales Application Engineer
for Eastern U.S. and Canada for Beckwith Electric Co. Mr. McFetridge is
a seasoned electrical utility industry veteran with over 20 years experience
and brings over 5 years of marketing and sales experience to this position.
Mr. McFetridge spent the first 7 years of his career as an application
engineer with two different power companies, Virginia Power Company and
Georgia Power Company, where his primary focus with both companies was
in the areas of substation SCADA, distribution automation, and distribution
protection. He spent the last 14 years of his career working for various
vendors such as Tasnet, Siemens PTD, Schneider Electric/Modicon, and Alstom/Areva
T&D. During this time, his specialization was in the areas of automation,
protection and control. He started his career with vendors as a project
manager and has also been a field engineer, head of training and customer
support, product testing and overseeing new product design.
Mr. McFetridge has installed SCADA/Automation systems for utilities that
include Virginia Power, Georgia Power, Progress Energy, Portland General
Electric, Southern California Edison, Commonwealth Edison and NYSEG. During
his career, Mr. McFetridge has programmed PLCs from Modicon, GE, PLC Direct
and Allen-Bradley, created Human-Machine Interfaces with Wonderware, US
Data Factory Link and Intellutions, and has worked with SCADA packages
from OSI Monarch Lite and Areva T&D EterraControl. He has commissioned
protective relays from SEL, Areva T&D and ABB including Line Differential
Relays, Distance Relays, Transformer Differential relays and Feeder Management
Relays. He has also integrated over 50 different IEDs into Tasnet systems,
Modicon PLCs, ACS NTUs and QEI RTUs.
Mr. McFetridge has presented papers on substation automation at conferences
such as Texas A&M and the Marquette University Substation Automation
Seminars. Mr. McFetridge received a BSEE from West Virginia University.
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