Houston, TX (October 28, 2009) – EquaTerra, a leading business advisory firm, announced today that Mark W. Everette, a utility industry veteran with deep expertise in Smart Grid economic analysis, strategic business case and program management implementation, has joined EquaTerra’s AMI / Smart Grid Practice. In his new role, he will help guide clients through program implementations and stimulus funding requirements related to Smart Grid initiatives with EquaTerra’s proprietary PMO solution (EquaSiis Enterprise), the leading toolset that clients use for one-stop access to monitor and report complex multi-faceted Smart Grid program implementations.
Everette has developed Smart Grid economic strategies for a wide variety of domestic and international clients, and brings more than 25 years of utility, financial and operational consulting experience covering strategic business planning, enterprise and business unit economic modeling, shared service organization design and process implementation, activity-based cost and performance management systems, business process re-engineering, management audit preparation, and due diligence efforts related to acquisition and divestiture transactions. Mark has been a speaker on such topics as capital asset project management, activity-based cost and performance management, shared service organization development and rate-making. He has also co-authored reports sponsored by the Electric Power Research Institute titled “Case Studies of Activity-Based Costing (ABC) Applications in the Electric Power Industry: Lessons Learned” (EPRI TR-106526). Mark holds both bachelor and master of science degrees in accounting from the University of Illinois.
Prior to joining EquaTerra, Mark worked with the Arthur Andersen and BearingPoint Utility Business Consulting groups through 2004 whereupon he started his own consulting practice.
“Mark brings significant and practical operational experience with Smart Grid / AMI initiatives including the economic and financial regulatory implications,” said Matt Smith, EquaTerra Resources Industry Managing Director. “His experience working with the Department of Energy will also be an asset to clients receiving stimulus funding and reporting on Smart Grid / AMI Program success.”
About EquaTerra
EquaTerra sourcing advisors help clients achieve sustainable value in their IT and business processes. Our advisors average more than 20 years of industry experience and have supported more than 2,000 transformation and outsourcing projects across more than 60 countries. Supporting clients throughout the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific, we have deep functional knowledge in Finance and Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement and other critical business processes. EquaTerra helps clients achieve significant cost savings and process improvement with internal transformation, shared services and outsourcing solutions. For more information, please contact Lee Ann Moore at +1 713 669 9292; www.equaterra.com.
About EquaSiis Enterprise
EquaSiis Enterprise is a software tool design to model and manage complex sourcing relationships. The tool was originally designed to address the challenges of large outsourcing relationships and has been successfully deployed by Global 100 companies to manage multiple contracts with annual spending in excess of $100 million. For SmartGrid/AMI, the solution has been customized to address the distribution and metering functional domain and to address the unique challenges of reporting on Stimulus Fund Spending and SmartGrid/AMI Program performance. For more information, please contact Mike Beals at +1 404 915 4022; www.equaterra.com.
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