[Barry Palakodety]

Hello UAI Members,

I’m Barry, a new UAI member from Western Area Power Administration (WAPA). I’ve been with WAPA for over 5 years now. I’ve been in Asset and Work Management world for over 25 years primarily working with IT systems that connect with Maximo Asset Management software. I’ve a IT education background. I manage IT projects, review business processes, functional and technical needs of businesses and help organizations achieve their strategic and tactical goals using tools and process changes. I’m getting familiar with Data analytics and tools out there in the last year. My top 5 strengths are: Command, Learner, Focus, Achiever and Restorative.

I’ve been in Colorado since 1995. I love it out here. I spend my free time socializing, hiking, biking, camping, skiing, travelling world, taking nature and wild life photographs, teach, cook, make masks, you name it! I listen to 80s Rock through latest pop music. I’ve visited almost all States in the USA! My wife and I love to travel the world for fun and adventure. Some day, we might own a tiny place in a few continents of the world so we could retire and travel! Countries I visited so far are: Canada, Mexico, Peru, Germany, England, France, Austria, Singapore, Malaysia, India and we’re on our way to Tahiti in Oct 2020! I’ve a ton of fun travel stories to share. :)

I’m excited to be a member of this organization. I’m looking forward to contributing and listening to experts share their ideas of the future of utility industry.

Cheers!
Barry

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Barry Palakodety
Maximo Architect
WAPA
720-967-7177
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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)]

Thanks so much for introducing yourself on this thread, @Barry! We are so glad that you and the WAPA team have joined UAI. The UAI team lives across the U.S. and there are several of us here in Colorado​​. After it is safer to socialize, we need to connect for a happy hour with the WAPA team members that live in Colorado, as well as any other members that live in Colorado. It will be nice to connect face-to-face again some day. 

Thanks again for introducing yourself and welcome to the community!

Cheers,

     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: 09-10-2020 14:58
From: Barry Palakodety
Subject: Introduce Yourself

Hello UAI Members,

I’m Barry, a new UAI member from Western Area Power Administration (WAPA). I’ve been with WAPA for over 5 years now. I’ve been in Asset and Work Management world for over 25 years primarily working with IT systems that connect with Maximo Asset Management software. I’ve a IT education background. I manage IT projects, review business processes, functional and technical needs of businesses and help organizations achieve their strategic and tactical goals using tools and process changes. I’m getting familiar with Data analytics and tools out there in the last year. My top 5 strengths are: Command, Learner, Focus, Achiever and Restorative.

I’ve been in Colorado since 1995. I love it out here. I spend my free time socializing, hiking, biking, camping, skiing, travelling world, taking nature and wild life photographs, teach, cook, make masks, you name it! I listen to 80s Rock through latest pop music. I’ve visited almost all States in the USA! My wife and I love to travel the world for fun and adventure. Some day, we might own a tiny place in a few continents of the world so we could retire and travel! Countries I visited so far are: Canada, Mexico, Peru, Germany, England, France, Austria, Singapore, Malaysia, India and we’re on our way to Tahiti in Oct 2020! I’ve a ton of fun travel stories to share. :)

I’m excited to be a member of this organization. I’m looking forward to contributing and listening to experts share their ideas of the future of utility industry.

Cheers!
Barry

——————————
Barry Palakodety
Maximo Architect
WAPA
720-967-7177
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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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[Ben Ettlinger]

I’ll partially answer my own question. We was advised that TEAMS does have a closed captioning feature. I’m not clear yet if this is a feature that the TEAMS administrator has to enable and if its available in all licensing formats (e.g government etc.) I still dont know about WebEx and Zoom. It also appears that there is no ADA requirement to provide closed captioning, other than what is called reasonable accommodation. This is as opposed to New York State government web sites that have to be ADA compliant.

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Ben Ettlinger
Emerging Technologies
Enterprise Architecture & Engineering Group
New York Power Authority
White Plains, NY
914 681 6496
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Original Message:
Sent: 09-09-2020 11:32
From: Ben Ettlinger
Subject: ADA Signage for Hard of Hearing

There seem to be a number of AI based tools that could replace the signer, using sign language, in the little box on the bottom of the screen. Otter.AI appears to one of them. We are looking for something that will be able to create captions in real time and be able to be used with Zoom, WebEx Teams etc. Anyone familiar with Otter or a similar product. It’s not clear to me that Otter can do it in real time for display as the meeting is happening.

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Ben Ettlinger
Emerging Technologies
Enterprise Architecture & Engineering Group
New York Power Authority
White Plains, NY
914 681 6496
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