Dr. D'Andrade is a licensed professional electrical and computer engineer consultant with 20 years of experience in research, development, risk assessment, and design in a variety of engineering fields including electrical, electronic, semiconductor, software, and network. Dr. D’Andrade’s perspective on the power grid comes from years of analyzing component failures, storm, flood, and other weather-related damage to the grid. His work as an engineering consultant enables him to bring together contributors with independent perspective on major risks to the gird and on the outlook for the transformation of the grid, and he has edited 2 books.