[Leslie Cook (Adm)]

Good afternoon UAI Members! 

The UAI member-only website at Member.UtilityAnalytics.com is back up and running. We apologize for the inconvenience today and hope you will join us back on the site to continue your collaboration with other UAI members. 

If you try to access Member.UtilityAnalytics.com and are not successful at first try, please clear your browsing history, close your browser, and then re-open your browser to try again. That should work. If not, please reach out to me at lcook@endeavorb2b.com immediately and let me know about your experience. I will work with you to troubleshoot. Thank you!

I hope you all enjoy the rest of your Friday and your weekend!

 
Thanks,

     Leslie

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Leslie Cook
Membership & Digital Engagement Manager
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
719-203-8650, lcook@endeavorb2b.com
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-03-2020 13:07
From: Leslie Cook
Subject: UAI Member-Only Website Currently Down

Dear UAI Members,

 

Please be aware that the UAI member-only website at Member.UtilityAnalytics.com is currently down. We are troubleshooting the issue and hope to have it resolved soon, so you can get back to connecting and collaborating with each other on this amazing Friday. We sincerely appreciate your patience.

 

If you need anything from UAI in the meantime, please reach out to me at lcook@endeavorb2b.com.

 

Thanks!

 

     Leslie

 

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Leslie A. Cook

Membership & Engagement Manager, Utility Analytics Institute (UAI) 

Endeavor Business Media | Energy

646-693-5965

lcook@endeavorb2b.com (Please note the new email address and update in your contacts)

 

Connect with me: http://www.LinkedIn.com/in/lesliecook

 

Information Classification: General

[Gina Weber (Adm)]

Howdy y’all! 

I think it is about time I said hello from the UAI team, and formally introduced myself for those of you I haven’t met. I am Gina Weber and I am the managing director here at UAI. I have the great pleasure of overseeing the day-to-day activities of UAI operations and programming & delivering our events, both virtual and in-person. I’ve been with UAI since the fall of 2017, when I left CenterPoint Energy to join this amazing organization. I had been an active UAI member and true believer of the community since the first presenting at UA Week held in Arlington in 2012 and I’m thrilled that we will be returning to the DFW area this fall for UA Week again. 

My 10 years spent in various departments at CenterPoint Energy has allowed me to provide context to topics and situations that are unique to our industry and pull from my experience with newly formed analytics organizations to share some of my lessons learned. I was fortunate enough to spend time in a number of areas within the utility such as: Industrial & Large Commercial Accounts, Electric Operations, Revenue Protection, Analytics and Data Services, Distribution Operations, and Customer Operations.  

On a personal note I am a proud Texas Tech Alumni and bleed red & black. College sports are one of my favorite pastimes. My family and I are based in Pearland Texas, a large suburb outside of Houston.  I have a 6 year old daughter and 2 bonus kids age 11 and 13. On most nights and weekends you will find me either at a cheer practice/competition for my 6 year old or a softball tournament around the country for my 13 year old. They keep us BUSY but we wouldn’t have it any other way and know that one day we will miss these crazy times. In my free time (not that I have much of that) I love to craft and spend time with friends and family.

I love reading everyone’s introductions, many I know, but these introductions help me to know even more about you outside of UAI. I appreciate the contribution each one of you makes to our community and hope that we continue to work together to transform utilities through the use of data and analytics.

I hope I see y’all real soon!

Gina

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Gina Weber
Managing Director, Utility Analytics Institute
(281) 839-8434
GWeber@EndeavorB2B.com
http://www.LinkedIn.com/in/Gina-Weber
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-18-2020 10:38
From: Leslie Cook
Subject: Introduce Yourself

Hello UAI Members,

I’m excited to try something new on UAI’s Member-Only Community. I want to not only make this forum a place for work and professional connections to take place on a daily basis, a place to ask each other questions, find answers and exchange knowledge and share information, I want to make it a fun environment to help us all de-stress, get to know each other a little better, and build bonds and friendships of a lifetime.

One of the coolest things about the UAI community is seeing members make connections with one another-it’s incredible to watch personal and professional relationship and friendships begin, grow, evolve, and last. The more relationships that are built between us and the more we get to know each other, the more valuable our work exchanges will become. We open up, we share more, we learn more and we all become so much better together!

Our community gets bigger every day. Many of you already know one another, while others are brand-new faces. I feel like it’s time that we (both new members and established ones) take a little time to introduce ourselves.

• Share your name
• Where you’re from
• How long you’ve worked in utility analytics
• I also encourage you to share non-invasive personal tidbits about yourself, i.e. what you like to do for fun, your hobbies, your pet peeves, or even your favorite memes, of course keeping it in good taste. Share things that will help us all get to know you better

I think it is important to have a little fun while we work and enjoy each other’s company. Please, use the UAI Member-Only Community as a place to work hard and play hard, enjoy, laugh, and have some fun.

I’ll kick us off, and please know you can include as much or little detail in your introduction. I’m wordy, so I went all out:

I’m Leslie, UAI’s membership & digital engagement manager. I’ve been with UAI for almost five months and I’m passionate about connecting members who share similar interests and challenges, and providing them with benefits, experiences, and tools they need to solve their problems and improve their organizations. I enthusiastically joined UAI to help improve and evolve the UAI membership value, as well as manage UAI’s collection of Communities. I am a strategic program director, dynamic business leader, and expert facilitator with over 20 years of experience. To learn even more about my professional work or to connect with me, visit my profile on UAI’s member-only site or LinkedIn. Please reach out to me directly at any time if you have questions or need anything from UAI. I can be reached at lcook@endeavorb2b.com or 646-693-5965.

I’m a Texas girl at heart, born and raised in a small town in north Texas, and then I headed out west to graduate from Texas Tech University (Go Red Raiders!). After school I moved to Colorado and I’ve lived all along the front range for the last 22 years, settling in Denver for the last six years, and I still have a Texas accent (You can take the girl out of Texas, but you can’t take the Texas accent out of the girl!). I’ve been married to my best friend from high school for 17 years, and we have two amazingly intelligent miniature Australian Shepherds, Indio and Charley, who keep us busy.

When I’m not working, I can be found traveling the world. We have been to 11 countries so far and we hope to continue to expand our adventures. I also like to leverage my high attention to detail and project management skills when dabbling in home remodeling and interior design. I come up with crazy design schemes and my patient husband implements my ideas, doing all the skilled and hard labor work. We are now close to the end of a complete remodel of our 1952 house. I cannot wait to be done with this project that has taken us about three years to complete…I can almost see the light!

I am truly excited to get to know ALL UAI’s members, so please reply to this discussion post to introduce yourself. Give a little of yourself and you will be surprised at how much you get in return through your valuable, purpose-built relationships via UAI.

Like I said, I have only been with UAI for about five months, but I’m already having so much fun and learning a lot from all of you! We have a lot of positive updates coming soon and we are evolving, with your input, to better meet your needs and goals, and I can’t wait to share these things with you. You must stay tuned into UAI’s Member-Only Community to learn more within the next few months. We will also be announcing some new things and some updates during the unique and exciting event we have coming in June 2020, UA Summit Reimagined!

Introduce yourself, learn more about others, and connect through UAI!

Stay safe and healthy,

     Leslie

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Leslie Cook
Membership & Digital Engagement Manager
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
646-693-5965, lcook@endeavorb2b.com
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[Abbie Caracostas]

Hey everyone!​

I’m Abbie Caracostas – I manage the planning and execution of UAI’s event portfolio.  I have been part of the UAI team for six years now and have witnessed the growth of this association.  The best part of my job is getting to see you all each year at one of our UAI events.   I love interacting with all of our members on calls and through these forums – I pay attention to all of these interactions in order to design the best event experience possible for all of you. 

I have been working in events for most of my career – starting with IT support and software development events, but  UAI is really where I have found a home.  I feel very fortunate to work with the entire UAI team and all of you.

On a personal note, I am based in the Denver area, so I enjoy the outdoors – a lot. Outside of work, I spend most of my time as a taxi driver for three kids, a spectator of youth sports and lately, a home school teacher.

Hope to see you all really soon at UA Week 2020!

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Abbie Caracostas
Sr. Events Manager | acaracostas@endeavorb2b.com
UAI
Denver CO
7196604722
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-03-2020 16:23
From: Gina Weber
Subject: Introduce Yourself

Howdy y’all!

I think it is about time I said hello from the UAI team, and formally introduced myself for those of you I haven’t met. I am Gina Weber and I am the managing director here at UAI. I have the great pleasure of overseeing the day-to-day activities of UAI operations and programming & delivering our events, both virtual and in-person. I’ve been with UAI since the fall of 2017, when I left CenterPoint Energy to join this amazing organization. I had been an active UAI member and true believer of the community since the first presenting at UA Week held in Arlington in 2012 and I’m thrilled that we will be returning to the DFW area this fall for UA Week again.

My 10 years spent in various departments at CenterPoint Energy has allowed me to provide context to topics and situations that are unique to our industry and pull from my experience with newly formed analytics organizations to share some of my lessons learned. I was fortunate enough to spend time in a number of areas within the utility such as: Industrial & Large Commercial Accounts, Electric Operations, Revenue Protection, Analytics and Data Services, Distribution Operations, and Customer Operations.  

On a personal note I am a proud Texas Tech Alumni and bleed red & black. College sports are one of my favorite pastimes. My family and I are based in Pearland Texas, a large suburb outside of Houston.  I have a 6 year old daughter and 2 bonus kids age 11 and 13. On most nights and weekends you will find me either at a cheer practice/competition for my 6 year old or a softball tournament around the country for my 13 year old. They keep us BUSY but we wouldn’t have it any other way and know that one day we will miss these crazy times. In my free time (not that I have much of that) I love to craft and spend time with friends and family.

I love reading everyone’s introductions, many I know, but these introductions help me to know even more about you outside of UAI. I appreciate the contribution each one of you makes to our community and hope that we continue to work together to transform utilities through the use of data and analytics.

I hope I see y’all real soon!

Gina

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Gina Weber
Managing Director, Utility Analytics Institute
(281) 839-8434
GWeber@EndeavorB2B.com
http://www.LinkedIn.com/in/Gina-Weber
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-18-2020 10:38
From: Leslie Cook
Subject: Introduce Yourself

Hello UAI Members,

I’m excited to try something new on UAI’s Member-Only Community. I want to not only make this forum a place for work and professional connections to take place on a daily basis, a place to ask each other questions, find answers and exchange knowledge and share information, I want to make it a fun environment to help us all de-stress, get to know each other a little better, and build bonds and friendships of a lifetime.

One of the coolest things about the UAI community is seeing members make connections with one another-it’s incredible to watch personal and professional relationship and friendships begin, grow, evolve, and last. The more relationships that are built between us and the more we get to know each other, the more valuable our work exchanges will become. We open up, we share more, we learn more and we all become so much better together!

Our community gets bigger every day. Many of you already know one another, while others are brand-new faces. I feel like it’s time that we (both new members and established ones) take a little time to introduce ourselves.

• Share your name
• Where you’re from
• How long you’ve worked in utility analytics
• I also encourage you to share non-invasive personal tidbits about yourself, i.e. what you like to do for fun, your hobbies, your pet peeves, or even your favorite memes, of course keeping it in good taste. Share things that will help us all get to know you better

I think it is important to have a little fun while we work and enjoy each other’s company. Please, use the UAI Member-Only Community as a place to work hard and play hard, enjoy, laugh, and have some fun.

I’ll kick us off, and please know you can include as much or little detail in your introduction. I’m wordy, so I went all out:

I’m Leslie, UAI’s membership & digital engagement manager. I’ve been with UAI for almost five months and I’m passionate about connecting members who share similar interests and challenges, and providing them with benefits, experiences, and tools they need to solve their problems and improve their organizations. I enthusiastically joined UAI to help improve and evolve the UAI membership value, as well as manage UAI’s collection of Communities. I am a strategic program director, dynamic business leader, and expert facilitator with over 20 years of experience. To learn even more about my professional work or to connect with me, visit my profile on UAI’s member-only site or LinkedIn. Please reach out to me directly at any time if you have questions or need anything from UAI. I can be reached at lcook@endeavorb2b.com or 646-693-5965.

I’m a Texas girl at heart, born and raised in a small town in north Texas, and then I headed out west to graduate from Texas Tech University (Go Red Raiders!). After school I moved to Colorado and I’ve lived all along the front range for the last 22 years, settling in Denver for the last six years, and I still have a Texas accent (You can take the girl out of Texas, but you can’t take the Texas accent out of the girl!). I’ve been married to my best friend from high school for 17 years, and we have two amazingly intelligent miniature Australian Shepherds, Indio and Charley, who keep us busy.

When I’m not working, I can be found traveling the world. We have been to 11 countries so far and we hope to continue to expand our adventures. I also like to leverage my high attention to detail and project management skills when dabbling in home remodeling and interior design. I come up with crazy design schemes and my patient husband implements my ideas, doing all the skilled and hard labor work. We are now close to the end of a complete remodel of our 1952 house. I cannot wait to be done with this project that has taken us about three years to complete…I can almost see the light!

I am truly excited to get to know ALL UAI’s members, so please reply to this discussion post to introduce yourself. Give a little of yourself and you will be surprised at how much you get in return through your valuable, purpose-built relationships via UAI.

Like I said, I have only been with UAI for about five months, but I’m already having so much fun and learning a lot from all of you! We have a lot of positive updates coming soon and we are evolving, with your input, to better meet your needs and goals, and I can’t wait to share these things with you. You must stay tuned into UAI’s Member-Only Community to learn more within the next few months. We will also be announcing some new things and some updates during the unique and exciting event we have coming in June 2020, UA Summit Reimagined!

Introduce yourself, learn more about others, and connect through UAI!

Stay safe and healthy,

     Leslie

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Leslie Cook
Membership & Digital Engagement Manager
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
646-693-5965, lcook@endeavorb2b.com
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[Leslie Cook (Adm)]

Hello UAI Members, 

I have been made aware that some of you cannot access Google Sheets from your work computers, but would like to sign up as a Community Sponsor or Leader for the brand new UAI Communities.  If you can’t access Google Sheets and want to volunteer, please reach out to me at lcook@endeavorb2b.com to sign up. 

To learn more about Community Sponsors and Leaders please reference my original post. Make sure to click on the attachment to learn even more about the roles and time commitment. If you have any questions, please reach out!

I look forward to hearing from you!

Thanks!

     Leslie

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Leslie Cook
Membership & Digital Engagement Manager
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
719-203-8650, lcook@endeavorb2b.com
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-02-2020 10:00
From: Leslie Cook
Subject: A Call for Community Sponsors & Leaders – NEW UAI Communities

Hello UAI Members,

We are excited to launch four NEW UAI Communities! The goal is to hold our first meetings for these brand new Communities this Summer, 2020. But first, we need to recruit volunteer Community Sponsors and Community Leaders for each new UAI Community.

This is your call to be a Community Sponsor or Community Leader!  Please volunteers by Friday, April 10, 2020.

What are the four NEW UAI Communities?

• Asset Health Analytics Community
• Customer Analytics Community
• Disaster Analytics Community
• Grid Analytics Community

Of course, this is in addition to our current collection of UAI Communities, so by the end of this Summer we will have a total of nine (9) UAI Communities!

What is the role of the Community Sponsors and Community Leaders?

• Please review the attached PDF document for role descriptions and time commitments

What does UAI need from you regarding these new UAI Communities?

1. Volunteer as a Community Sponsor for one of our new UAI Communities — ideally director level+ or EAC member
   • Learn more by reviewing the attachment 
   • We would like to recruit at least two (2) Community Sponsors for each new UAI Community. However, we will take more volunteers – the more brains working together, the better
2. Volunteer for a Community Leader for one of our new UAI Communities — typically managers/analytics from various business functions
   • Learn more by reviewing the attachment
   • We would like to recruit at least four (4) Community Leaders for each new UAI Community. Again, we will take more volunteers – the more the merrier!

How do I submit to volunteer?

• Please click on the following link, which will take you to a Google sheet, and fill in the information requested for both Community Sponsors and Community Leaders for each new UAI Community.
• Here’s the link:  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17cYQFHb7BvluMJMxpRt_eLGAzVC53U122EoLT_iY2x0/edit?usp=sharing

Next Steps:

• Once Community Sponsors and Community Leaders are recruited, we will reach out to gather the leadership team for each new UAI Community to start working on the Community Charter
• Once the Charter for the Community is created, we will schedule the first Community meeting for that new UAI Community

Thank you all so much for your time and commitment to this effort. We are extremely excited to get these new UAI Communities started and provide you and all our members with additional value.

If you have any questions, please reach out to me at lcook@endeavorb2b.com or 646-693-5965.

Thanks!

     Leslie

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Leslie Cook
Membership & Digital Engagement Manager
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
719-203-8650, lcook@endeavorb2b.com
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