BBA
1050 West Pender Street
Suite 850
Vancouver, BC V6E 3S7
Canada
Email: BBA
Phone: 1 604.661.2111
Fax: 1 604.683.2872
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The Partners
Rhonda Netzel, PEng, PE
Senior Electrical Engineer
Contact
Email: Rhonda Netzel
Phone: 1 604.661.2111
Bio
Since graduating in 1989 from the University of British Columbia, Rhonda has worked in controls, protection and power systems. While her current focus is primarily on protection and power systems, she takes occasional control system projects to keep herself in touch with current hardware and software systems.
With nearly two decades of experience and projects spanning several industries, Rhonda has taken on almost every role from senior reviewer to designer, construction supervisor, commissioning engineer and owner’s representative. Her broad range of experience in all project phases enables her to be equally efficient in the office and on site. Rhonda’s career has centered on utility and mining applications. She has provided protection and control services to B.C. Hydro, independent power producers and U.S. utilities. She was involved in the first unit automation projects undertaken by B.C. Hydro. Her mining work includes copper, diamond, lead, zinc and gold projects around the globe; including Alaska, Indonesia, Arizona, Chile, Peru and Africa. Rhonda is a registered professional engineer in the Province of British Columbia and the states of Alaska, Washington and Arizona. She is also registered with the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveyors to facilitate licensure in other U.S. states. Recently, Rhonda was awarded the 2008 Meritorious Achievement Award with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia. To view a short video of Rhonda’s path to Sequoia, click here.
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Senior Electrical Engineer
Partner
Contact
Email: Huitt Manering
Phone: 1 604.661.2111
Bio
Huitt has over fifteen years of experience in the design, construction and commissioning of electrical equipment and controls systems for hydroelectric and thermal power generation. As a project engineer, Huitt has experience leading preliminary concepts through to detailed design and following up on-site during construction, commissioning and turn-over to the client. His current projects include both hydroelectric generation and mining where he is the lead engineer on the power and control systems for one of the largest mobile stacking systems in the world.
Huitt’s career has a mix of large multi-disciplinary capital projects and shorter term design assignments both in the office and on-site. Based on years of field work with construction crews and maintenance staff, he has a solid appreciation of personnel safety and equipment maintenance issues associated with new design.
Huitt is a registered professional engineer in the Province of British Columbia.
Click here for Huitt’s Resume
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Ken Walton
Senior Electrical Technologist
Contact
Email: Ken Walton
Phone: 1 604.661.2111
Bio
Ken has a knack for figuring out how things work. Fresh out of college in 1985, he began his career working at a small mechanical/electrical engineering firm where his talents were put to good use on leading edge projects such as the development of a fibre optic shaft torque analyzer, and an on-line liquor analyzer for pulp mills. His exposure to fibre optic components during the industry's infancy made him a valuable addition to the Air Gap monitor team at BC Hydro. There Ken assisted with the development, installation and commissioning of a new fibre optic air gap monitor for large hydro electric generators - a role that took him from the corners of BC to Venezuela, Brazil, and all points in between.
Ken's BC Hydro career branched into more mainstream protection and control upgrade projects where he gained valuable knowledge on unit control, excitation and digital governors. More recently, Ken has been involved in instrumentation and control designs for several large mining projects in Arizona and Peru and an Oil Sands project in northern Alberta.
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