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Meet our writers

Meet the writers behind our For Safety's Sake blog, a series featuring our point of view about codes and standards to help educate and protect people and property from electrical hazards.

Arthur Jur

Arthur Jur is a senior engineering manager at Eaton, where he leverages 27 years of electrical industry expertise to help innovate upon electrical switchgear product design. He currently maintains and has held multiple leadership positions across electrical safety standards working groups and has vast experience across low-voltage electrical product applications. Jur earned Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of South Carolina.

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Adams Baker

Adams Baker is the Product Manager for Eaton’s low-voltage switchgear product line. He has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Dartmouth College and a Master of Engineering Management. He has been involved with industrial new product development for over a decade in a variety of capacities including design engineering, manufacturing, sales and marketing. Adams is a member of the IEEE.

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Rebecca Bitter

Rebecca Bitter is one of Eaton’s biggest champions for smart, sustainable and safe energy solutions at home. As a product line manager for home energy management systems, she leverages her passion to help shape the future of how homeowners can apply intelligent power management to keep the power on longer, lower energy bills and reduce carbon footprint. She began her journey at Eaton as an intern in 2015 and quickly worked her way up, becoming one of the youngest product line managers in the company’s history. Rebecca played a key role in shaping Eaton’s current smart energy ecosystem, driving collaborations with industry leaders like LG, Samsung, Treehouse, Lunar Energy, Tesla. She also spearheaded the launch of the cutting-edge AbleEdge home energy management system – which is helping homeowners and contractors reimagine the capabilities of existing energy systems to accelerate residential electrification.

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Zac Brown

Zac Brown is the Engineering Manager for Eaton B-Line’s seismic product line. He has a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Missouri University of Science & Technology and is a licensed Professional Engineer in the state of Illinois. He sits on the NFPA (National Fire Protection Association) and MSS (Manufacturers Standardization Society) Hanging and Bracing Committees and UL’s Pipe Hanger Fire Protection standards technical panel (STP). He has been a part of Eaton’s B-Line’s seismic division since 2017, and has been involved with new product development, leading the quoting and design team, and maintaining their TOL-Brace Software.

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Justin Carron

Justin Carron currently serves as the strategic leader for all of Eaton’s activity in the Healthcare industry. In his role, he develops strategic business relationships across the complete spectrum of care including healthcare administrators, facility directors, chief engineers and clinicians while leading Eaton’s presence at the American Society of Healthcare Engineers to educate the industry on Eaton’s most innovative offerings including micro-grids, IoT enabled digital healthcare, and personal protective equipment.

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Lawrence T. Conner

Lawrence (Larry) T. Connor is a senior energy transition application specialist at Eaton where he leverages more than 44 years of power distribution equipment experience to help customers optimize the performance of distributed energy installations. He has been invited to share his expertise in medium- and low-voltage power distribution during multiple Solar Power International conferences and is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and its Power & Energy Society. He holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University. 

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Chris Decker

Chris Decker is a product line manager within Eaton’s Line Installation Protection Equipment (L.I.P.E.) team. He leverages over 20 years of industry experience to help utilities optimize the reliability and safety of their overhead and underground distribution systems.

Decker has previously held roles in sales, marketing and product management. He holds a Master of Business Administration from Emory University and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 

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David B. Durocher

David B. Durocher, Senior Member IEEE, received a B.S.E.E. at Oregon State University. He served as a Global Mining, Metals, and Minerals Industry Manager with Eaton with over 41 years of experience with Westinghouse and Eaton in a variety of product engineering, sales, and global marketing roles, authoring numerous technical papers that have been presented at conferences around the world and published in the IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, Plant Engineering, and EC&M Magazine. Dave presently serves as an active member on IEEE Standards Working Groups IEEE1584 and IEEE1458 and is also an active member of the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) Mining Industry Committee, Cement Industry Committee and Association of Iron & Steel Technology. He served as the President of the IEEE IAS 2015-2016 and serves as Division II Director, IEEE Board of Directors 2019-2020.

 

Thomas A. Domitrovich

Thomas A. Domitrovich is an Electrical Engineer within Eaton’s electrical business with experience in engineering, sales & marketing, business development and product management. Domitrovich is actively involved with various electrical industry organizations and most recently focuses on the continued growth of electrical safety. Domitrovich is an author with a wide range of trade magazine articles including columns in two industry trade magazines focused on electrical safety.  He sits on NFPA Code Making Panel 2 for the continued development of the National Electrical Code (NFPA 70). He is also on the NFPA committee for the continued development of NFPA 73 and chairs various committees for other electrical industry organizations. Domitrovich is a LEED® Accredited Professional, a licensed Professional Engineer and holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from Gannon University.

 

Marc Elliott

Marc has over 25 years of experience with Eaton serving in roles of increasing responsibilities including sales engineer, product manager, engineering manager, regional sales manager and plant manager before being appointed to his current role as Marketing Director – Mining, Metals & Minerals and Pulp, Paper & Wood of Eaton’s electrical business. Marc has a broad range of experience with industry solutions related to power distribution, energy management, motor control and factory automation serving the process industries, OEMs, and institutions. He is involved in a variety of global industry standards and presently serves as an active member of the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) Cement Industry Committee, the IEEE IAS Pulp and Paper Industry Committee, the Association of Iron & Steel Technology (AIST) Electrical Applications Technical Committee and the AIST Digital Transformation Committee. Marc has been published in various periodicals such as the IEEE IAS magazine and World Cement. He received a B.S.M.E. from the University of Michigan and an M.B.A. from Seattle University.

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Tom Grace

Tom Grace has more than 22 years of experience in Eaton’s electrical business, focusing for more than half of that time on the impact of counterfeiting on Eaton and the electrical industry. As brand protection manager of Eaton’s Electrical Sector – Americas, he has undertaken the global coordination for brand protection and continues to promote counterfeit awareness, product enhancement and policy enforcement throughout Eaton’s businesses globally.

Tom has extensive field experience that includes market research and administrative actions in China, research and investigations in the Middle East, and supporting federal authorities conducting criminal investigations of counterfeit products in the U.S. He is actively engaged in training with federal agencies and local law enforcement and has conducted anti-counterfeit training at most major U.S. ports. To raise the awareness of the risks of counterfeit electrical products, Tom frequently collaborates with industry associations such as Underwriter’s Laboratories (UL), Canadian Standards Association (CSA), National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA), North American Electrical Distributors (NAED), Electrical Safety Foundation International (ESFi) and the Professional Apparatus Recyclers League (PEARL). He holds a BS from the University of South Florida.

 

Richard A. Holub

Richard A. Holub is a Principal Electrical Engineering Consultant with DuPont Engineering in Wilmington, Delaware. Rich received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Clemson University in 1991, and an M.S. in Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2000. Currently, Rich is a corporate consultant on the National Electrical Code®, and consults on motors, adjustable speed drives, electric fire pump controllers, and uninterruptible power supplies. He is the Alternate on CMP-14, the Principal on the Correlating Committee, and the Alternate on the Electrical Equipment in Chemical Atmospheres Committee representing the American Chemistry Council. 

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Robert Kirslis

Robert Kirslis has more than 25 years of experience in the planning, maintenance and operations of data centers, power plants, industrial facilities and commercial properties. Serving as a microgrid application engineer and expert at Eaton, he helps customers advance their businesses by delivering highly effective power management solutions and apply microgrid technologies. Across North America, Europe and Asia, Kirslis utilizes his expertise to help complex electrical engineering and construction projects achieve new levels of energy efficiency, power reliability and safety, and optimize the potential of renewable energy integration and energy storage.
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Kevin J. Lippert

Kevin J. Lippert is responsible for Eaton's Electrical Sector codes and standards’ domestic and international strategic direction. In a career spanning over 32 years, he has wide-ranging industry experience, including serving on the ANSI Board of Directors; as the U.S. representative to the International Electrotechnical Commission; on the NFPA Board of Trustees for the Fire Protection Research Foundation; and as a member of the NEC CMP 10, NFPA 70E, NEMA and numerous UL Standards technical panels. He’s also a past member of CMP 8, a senior IEEE member active on several IEEE committees and author of numerous industry articles and IEEE award-winning conference papers.  

 

Robert C. Potter

Robert C. Potter Jr. is the Eastern Region Field Application Specialist for Eaton’s Crouse-Hinds Business, for whom he has been employed for 25 years.  His electrical industry career spans 39 years of service.  Bob has served on the IEEE PCIC Executive Committee, was the Local Chair for the 2016 IEEE PCIC Philadelphia conference, and had been the PCIC Chair of the Facilities Sub-Committee.  He has been twice published in IAS magazine and is a member of IEEE and IAS.  In 2011, Bob had the honor of participating on a team proposing clarifications to the National Electrical Code which were approved for the 2014 edition.  Bob has been presenting at the National Training Institute NJATC IBEW/ NECA annual conference in Ann Arbor Michigan since 2015.  Bob has also completed a draft for the new NEIS NECA-507 - Recommended Practices for Electrical Wiring and Equipment in Hazardous Locations standard.

 

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Ed Spears

Ed Spears leverages nearly 40 years of power systems experience to support customers’ energy resiliency needs in his role as a product marketing manager for Eaton’s Critical Power Solutions Division in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Spears specializes in all things uninterruptible power – from systems testing to sales, application engineering and training. Throughout his lengthy career, he has held multiple positions focused on power quality engineering and marketing for the telecommunication, data center, cable television and broadband public network industries. 

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Jaska Tarkka

Jaska Tarkka is an energy transition application engineer at Eaton with more than a decade of experience helping customers integrate renewable energy resources, energy storage and electric vehicle charging infrastructure. In his position, he provides turnkey electrical balance of system and grid-interconnection support for commercial, government and utility projects. Jaska also offers expertise in solar PV system feasibility studies, modeling, simulation and assessment. He is bilingual and holds a bachelor’s degree from Kotka Institute of Technology, Finland.

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Max Wandera 

As director of the Cybersecurity Center of Excellence at Eaton, Max Wandera provides leadership and oversight for the research, design, development and implementation of security technologies for products, systems and software applications. In his position, he is also responsible for Eaton’s Secure Product Development Lifecycle Policy and compliance.

Wandera holds Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC) Security Leadership and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) accreditations. His expertise enables him to act as the voice of Eaton on product cybersecurity matters and lead cross-functional collaboration with corporate officers, industry leaders, and government entities including the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to shape the future of cybersecurity and trusted connectivity.

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Anthony Ciccozzi

Anthony is an industrial control system cybersecurity specialist who is responsible for leading cybersecurity product assessments for Eaton’s Secure Development Lifecycle (SDLC) process. He provides internal consulting for cybersecurity as it relates to embedded systems, distributed energy systems, communication and control applications, and UL, NERC CIP, and NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF) compliance programs.

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Matthew Cosnek

Matthew Cosnek is a senior OT cybersecurity expert with Eaton, where he provides guidance and thought leadership on strategies to protect power management and operational technology systems. Over his 17-year career, Matthew has held various positions in process control industries, including automation controls engineer, turbine mechanical engineer. Matthew is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He holds a Master of Business Administration from the Katz School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Calvin College.

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