 Welcome to JSA TV and JSA podcast the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals I'm Laura Noland at JSA We are getting to know the Hellman Electric family and today We are featuring Jerry Dolek vice president of the power division at Hellman Electric Jerry welcome to JSA TV Good afternoon If you could let's start about talking about the primary Responsibilities of the power division at Hellman Electric. Can you talk about that? sure so I'm relatively new here been here about a year and a half and We're we have started this power division and part of the responsibilities and what the power division is going to be doing is We're going to get involved in building and constructing electrically new services, so this would be services for large infrastructures buildings and so forth Including the tie-in from the utilities to the various buildings So large services on both low voltage side medium voltage side So it would involve the build out of Con Edison network volts things like that Generator facilities start up of generator facilities and basically start up in commissioning of a gear of power systems of Generator systems for buildings and facilities for campuses and so forth. So that's I Had that experience prior I owned a was a owner of a company that did that and now I'm at Hellman and we're going to try to do the same thing here Wonderful. Well, you mentioned some of the different projects and and tasks that you work on in the power division So do you have any other projects that you'd like to mention that you handle and then how do you work in tandem with the other divisions at Hellman? Okay, so There are a number of divisions here at Hellman the Hellman electric does heavy construction interiors a lot of involvement with governmental type facilities and What we're going to hopefully bring to that is some Additional level of technical expertise where we do say for example medium voltage cable splicing where we are familiar with utility requirements and bringing facilities and buildings and infrastructure and also basically testing and commissioning some of these Facilities and and gear and equipment and so forth As they are installed in infrastructure. So Basically, if we could help with the large power Coming into a building or facility Then so and basically interface with some of the other Hellman divisions like the interior divisions Who would then take over and complete the rest of the building or the heavy construction division? Which would take over then and complete some of the other levels of the projects going further into the facility Jerry we're almost halfway through 2020. Do you have any projects that really stood out to you this year over the past year? Maybe even working across the different divisions at Hellman yes We just assisted in with Hellman Electric and Completing the generator installation for the Manhattan psychiatric Center So we brought that online With Hellman Electric interior division It was a quite a complex project that involved the paralleling of two generators to back up the facility In case of power failure at the Manhattan psychiatric Center. We worked with the heavy division the heavy power division at Hellman in Helping them commission and test the switch gear relating to the Manhattan lift bridge and some of the other projects that I brought in and involved in now are the Power distributions for the New York Aquarium in Pony Island in Brooklyn We are close to completing that job right now We have worked on the main power installation for the Pier 55 Park on the west side of lower Manhattan So that was you know quite an interesting project also We have quite a number of projects that are Interesting also that are on the books that have been somewhat delayed as you know because of the covert experience but they're coming back on track and things like Columbia University power distribution were working with another electrical contractor on that to Do all the cables splicing and terminations on their medium voltage 15,000 volt system there So number of very interesting projects that are that are have either Been online have been completed here so far and are coming online now Excellent excellent. Well, let's talk a little bit about Innovation so how have advancements in technology played a role in your power division Well power in general for for many many years since Say the early 1900s to you know rather recently until the advent of electronics It's been quite a static field that we were in Not that many developments, but since say the 80s With the advent of electronics things have changed a lot We do now protective relaying That used to be done with electromechanical relays are now all electronic computer control There are things that monitor substations skata systems that control substations That monitor processes that have advanced things like variable speed drive for motors that now you can control motors very easily Alternated current motors that was a little harder to do Before so there's quite a bit of development with with process with communication with monitoring When something goes wrong a lot of these systems can go back to and they record Problems and issues that have occurred on the power systems and you can help you back go back and analyze These power systems and you could then determine, you know, what happened and how are we going to fix it? Well as you move forward and with that innovation, how do you see the power division in Helman growing over the next few years? Well, we are participating in a lot of that, you know doing protective relay Settings things like that. We are looking at the overall power system in general and Making recommendations one of the key things that we do here and we have brought and are getting involved in is when There's a problem on a power system when the building goes down or a facility goes down Or when there's a short circuit and a feeder somewhere and the feeder goes down so a lot of that troubleshooting and Restoration of the facility is what we are involved in and a lot of customers are calling us to help them in Restoration to determine where the fault was to make recommendations and make repairs on where some of these faults are So this is a lot of what we're doing in the power division and what we're getting involved in Sometimes leads to additional work that we can help the customer with not only solving the immediate problem but potentially maybe coming up with a solution and Avoiding some of these problems in general Wonderful. Well, we thank you so much Jerry for joining us It was great to learn about the the power division at Hellman and we certainly look forward to hearing more news developments from Hellman Thank you And thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV and JSA podcast. Happy networking