Bandana Tagore

Dynamic architect, consultant, and business analyst specializing in the energy and utilities sector, with a focus on Advanced Distribution Management Systems (ADMS), Outage Management Systems (OMS), SCADA, and Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems (DERMS). Over 17 years of experience in power transmission, distribution, and energy utilities, demonstrating expertise in project planning, analysis, design, testing, and implementation. Proven ability to analyze complex business requirements and translate them into actionable technical specifications that align with organizational goals. Committed to driving innovation and efficiency within the energy domain through strategic insights and technical acumen.

• Essential Energy is an Australian government-owned electricity corporation. Essential Energy was intending to upgrade their existing PowerOn Fusion system at Port Macquarie facility from v5.0 to v5.1. As part of this upgrade process, some configuration issues were needed to be resolved.
• Identification and configuration of the new system parameters available in version 5.1 (those which are not available in v5.0) as per client needs
• Checking the configuration of FEP, lines, and RTU (Remote terminal Unit) components as per client needs, and configuration of SCADA commissioning functionality available in v5.1
• Reconfiguration of view ports to make them work properly in the upgraded version (v5.1)
• Configuration of documents as per client needs

• SP AusNet is a leading energy company in Australia. I was responsible for pre-SAT testing of OMS and worked on:
• Configuration of DMS as per customer's requirements. Major works undertaken are designing and configuring Archiving and system cleanup on regular basis.
• Testing of call incident mapping in which call categories were mapped to the incident categories so that incidents were automatically created from calls and the relevant calls within the scope of an existing incident were automatically linked to that incident
• Testing of incident message categories in which incident messages could be categorized so that some category messages, when logged, change the state of the incident (for example from predicted to confirmed off)
• Testing of planned and unplanned faults (LV incident, SP incident, and HV incident)
• Testing of fault reports which could be configured to record the details of the work done in incidents of different types. For example: LV incident, SP incident, and HV incident, etc.
• High-level testing of OMS as per the business workflow documents which were prepared by GE

• Tredas is a leading energy company in Turkey. I was responsible for the complete configuration, implementation, and testing of OMS (Outage Management System) and DMS (Distribution Management System).
• Graphics configuration, symbol design, and configuration and testing as per client needs
• OMS configuration and testing which included configuration of the operating zones and their proper assignment to the equipment enabling dispatchers perform their operations
• DMS configuration and testing which includes configuration of zones and control areas and building the network as per customer requirements
• Categorization of calls based on reason and importance of the call and assignment of priorities and alarms
• Categorization of incidents based on the work to be performed and mapping call categories to incident categories so that incidents were created automatically from calls and the relevant calls within the scope of an existing incident were automatically linked to that incident
• Field resource categorization based on their work, job titles, and their base locations with an option to configure the permitted status changes for an incident that a resource can perform
• Data import data from GIS system to Distribution Management System. GIS extractor tool is designed for this customer and the same can be used for other customers with minimal modifications

• Attended training in PowerOn Fusion, a DOMS (distribution and outage management system) product of GE, in the following areas:
• PowerOn Fusion - Overview and Control Engineer
• PowerOn Fusion - System Configuration
• PowerOn Fusion - Symbol Configuration
• PowerOn Fusion - RT Symbol Configuration
• PowerOn Fusion - Diagram Management
• Oracle NMS (Network Manager)
• GE eTerra (Advanced Distribution Management System)
• Schneider Electric EcoStruxure (ADMS & DERMS Platform)