Mr. Nelson has over 32 years of experience in designing and managing large projects related to the electric power industry, including 10 years with the Public Service Company of Colorado (now Xcel Energy) and over 22 years as a Professional Consultant.  His experience includes the conceptual and detail design, feasibility studies, system planning, economic evaluation, installation, construction management, operation and maintenance, testing and commissioning of electrical equipment and other activities related to substation and distribution engineering, mining and petro-chemical industry, and power plants.  Mr. Nelson has also performed as an expert witness in numerous tasks involving forensic engineering: equipment failure to personnel injuries.

Mr. Nelson has authored (or coauthored) and presented numerous technical papers at the IEEE Conference related to substation engineering, grounding, harmonics and power quality, protection, altitude correction, and BIL, most of which are also published in the IEEE Transactions in Industry Applications.  Mr. Nelson is a very active member of the IEEE / IAS Petroleum and Chemical Engineering Society and a Fellow of IEEE.

John received his BS in EE from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1970 and his MS in EE from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1975, respectively.  He has also taken numerous graduate level courses in Business Administration.  He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Louisiana, New Mexico, Utah, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

John has taught numerous short courses to industry including power system protection, protective relaying, relay testing and maintenance, motor protection, and use of the National Electric Code / National Electric Safety Code.  Currently, he is an Adjunct Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Colorado at Denver.

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