ABOUT BECKWITH ELECTRIC
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Robert (Bob) McFetridge
Technical Applications Solutions Architect
8879 Flower Hill Road
Middlesex, North Carolina 27557
(919) 901-4410
Mr. Robert (Bob) McFetridge is the Technical Applications Solutions Architect for Beckwith Electric. His main responsibilities include product strategy, development, and launches, as well as promoting Beckwith Electric and its operating divisions worldwide.
Mr. McFetridge is a seasoned electrical utility industry veteran with over 25 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.