Dr. Les Cardwell is an Enterprise Data Architect at Central Lincoln People’s Utility District on the Oregon Coast, one of the a recipients of the ARRA Smart Grid Grants. He received his doctorate (DCS-DSS) from Colorado Technical University, and received both a MIT and BIT from American InterContinental University. Les is a subject matter expert (SME) for the DOE’s Electric Subsector Cybersecurity Capability Maturity Model (ES-C2M2), is a Certified Enterprise Architect (EACOE), and an evangelist for solving the Cybersecurity challenges through an Enterprise Architecture perspective. His experience spans 30 years improving ICT efficiencies, with a passion for reducing complexity to its simplest form.
Journal Articles
The Efficacy and Challenges of SCADA and Smart Grid Integration
The advent and evolution of the Smart Grid initiative to improve the electric utility power infrastructure has brought with it a number of opportunities for improving efficiencies, but along with those benefits come challenges in the effort to assure safety,… Read More
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