Ms. VanDyne has been involved in the power industry since graduation in 1980 from Ohio University. She holds an MBA from Capital University in Columbus, and is a registered Professional Engineer in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Florida, Nevada, Texas, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and California. She is also currently registered with the NCEES. Her career began in consulting, but includes over 14 years with AEP, where she held a variety of Transmission and Distribution, Customer Engineering, and Management positions. At AEP, she helped found the company’s Power Quality function. She re-entered the consulting world in 1995, and furthered her power quality background with a broad range of power quality and system analyses. In 1999, she led the design of the North American version of Siemens’ Sipcon T: their traditional filtered capacitor bank. In late 1999, she founded her own company, IDC Engineering, which focuses on Power Quality, Power System Analysis, Utility Consulting and Arc Flash Analyses.