About Us

Ms. Margaret Goodrich has over 30 years of experience in project management and all support and production areas within the Software Industry.  Ms. Goodrich, under contract to the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), has been the Test Coordinator/Director for the CIM Interoperability (IOP) Tests.  She is a current member of the UCA International Board of Directors and has also served on several IEC groups to establish utility industry standards for data exchange and application programming interfaces.  These activities involve current membership in the IEEE, IEC and the CIM User Group in the following capacity:

• IEEE CIM Task Force Co-Chair – this task force has a charter to expand the awareness of the CIM standards and work to endure the inclusion of the standards into the IEEE standards.
• IEC WG16 (CIM Extension for Markets), IEC WG21 (Distribution and Home Area Network Communications), IEC WG19 (Governance Body for IEC TC57) – serve as a working group member.
• IEC WG14 – CIM for Distribution – server as the Model Manager for the working group as well as the lead and co-lead for several of the Back-Office areas such as Outage Management, CIS, AMI and DMS.
• CIM-61850 Harmonization Task Force – Project Manager for this WG19 task force to produce a Technical Specification for the harmonization of the CIM and 61860 (substation automation) standards.
• Chair of the CIMug CIM Testing Committee – currently working to implement a testing program to provide vendor certification for conformance and interoperability for the CIM standards.
• Awarded the IEC 1906 award in 2013.
• On the Board of Directors of the UCAIug

Ms. Goodrich founded PsyCor International, Inc.  PsyCor became a leader in software development using the CIM standards.  As the founder, Ms. Goodrich provided all corporate and operational leadership functions.  She provided the strategic direction and vision for the company and worked hand in hand with customers to develop solutions that would remove the proprietary boundaries within the enterprise and provide open systems based on industry standards.

Ms. Goodrich is currently working for Project Consultants providing consulting and integration solutions to American Electric Power (AEP) for the Network Model Management (NMM) project.

PUBLICATIONS

• IEEE Papers, Tutorials and Panels
  • E. Goodrich, “Role of Interoperability Tests in Standardizing CIM”
  • E. Goodrich, J. Britton, A. McMorran, E. Haq, “Application of IEC CIM Standards in Power System Modeling, Smart Grid and Enterprise Integration”
  • Becker, T.L. Saxton, M.E. Goodrich, “CIM Standard for Dynamic Model Exchange”
  • E. Goodrich, “CIM Standard Activities for Smart Grid”, Panel session: The use of CIM Standards in Smart Grid Applications, IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting 2013, Vancouver, Canada
  • E. Goodrich, “Why Data Modeling Using the CIM is Important to Big Data Analytics”, Panel Session: The use of CIM Standards in Managing BIG Utility Data, IEEE PES General Meeting 2014, National Harbor, Maryland
  • Neumann, F. Wilhoit, M.E. Goodrich, VSK Murthy Balijepalli, “Everything’s Talking to Each Other”, IEEE PES Magazine, Volume 14, Number 1, January/February 2016.
  • Osterlund, K. Hunter, K. Demaree, M.E. Goodrich, A. McMorran, B. Iverson, T. Kostic, “Under the Hood: An Overview of the Common Information Model Data Exchanges”, IEEE PES Magazine, Volume 14, Number 1, January/February 2016.
• CIMug Presentations (Provided a 4-hour Tutorial and theme presentations for every CIMug Meeting since 2009 – below is an entry for a Tutorial class and a presentation; others provided upon request)
• Goodrich, “61968 – 9 Meter Reading and Control”, presentation given in CIM University at the CIM User’s Group Meeting, Oslo, Norway, June 2014. (accessed on 2015-09-07).
• Neumann, M. Goodrich, L. Malesku, F. Wilhoit, "Enterprise Integration Using the IEC CIM", CIM Users Group Spring Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic, May 10–13, 2011.
• DistribuTech Sessions
  • E. Goodrich, J. Britton, P. Brown, T. Saxton, UU103: "How IEC Common Information Model (CIM) Standards Provide a Solution to Smart Grid Interoperability", DistribuTech 2016 session, Orlando, Florida, USA, February 8-11, 2016.
• EPRI Reports (Published 9 reports total for the IOP tests that were conducted annually with one of them listed here – others provided upon request).
  • Report on the 2008 CIM-XML Interoperability and CIM Based Tools Test: The Power of the Common Information Model (CIM) to Exchange Power System Data. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA: 2008 [Product ID Number: 1018402].
• Book Chapters
  • Kostic, M. Goodrich, S. Neumann, M. Stanislawski, "IEC 61968: Integration of distribution systems". In "Smart Grid Handbook, Vol.2", C.C. Liu, S. McArthur, S.J. Lee (editors). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, May 2016