STOWE, Vt.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Utility Risk Management Corporation announces the hiring of Sally Filling as the company’s Chief Operating Officer. Filling comes to URMC with over 20 years of technical maintenance leadership and management experience in the utility industry.
“As we strengthen our competitive position and grow our business domestically and internationally, Sally’s firsthand knowledge of our customers’ needs and expectations — as well as tremendous leadership and management experience — is an incredible asset to our team,” said CEO Adam Rousselle, to whom Filling is a direct report. “We are fortunate to have someone of her caliber.”
Prior to joining URMC, Sally was Director of System Protection and Automation for BGE, a Constellation Energy Company. In this position, Sally led a 95-person technical construction team that was accountable for the installation and maintenance of demand response, AMI/Smart Grid, Distribution Automation, and Relay and Control device and systems.
In previous roles at BGE, she managed over $300 million of annual capital, operations, and maintenance spending for electric and gas distribution projects, focusing on compliance programs such as BGE’s Transmission Vegetation Management Program (TVMP). This program is based on leveraging LiDAR data to implement vegetation management best practices and as such is directly reflective of a key URMC core competency. Sally directed Federal Energy Contracting for BGE and also led teams that developed an industry-leading methodology for inspecting clearances around distribution assets in order to ensure compliance with National Electric Safety Code requirements.
Sally has a B.S. in Natural Resource Economics from the University of Vermont and an MBA from Johns Hopkins University.
About URMC
Founded in 2007, URMC is a technology-enabled engineering services firm providing vital information and analytics to electric power utilities and distribution companies in order to safeguard and optimize their power transmission and distribution infrastructures. URMC unites disparate technologies and processes, such as Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR), Computer-aided Design and Drafting (CADD), Geographic Information System (GIS), and other utility-specific solutions for high-impact analysis by engineers with unprecedented depth, precision, and speed. URMC provides the electric utility industry with critical insights into areas such as vegetation encroachment, ground clearance, sag and tension limits, thermal ratings, and line capacity.