All Valley Engineering Corp.

About Us

We are committed to delivering innovative solutions to our clients and to help them achieve the highest performance possible. Our professionals leverage today's leading-edge technologies to identify new solutions and drive business process improvements. Using our industry knowledge, service offering expertise and technology capabilities, we identify new business and technology trends and develop solutions to help clients.

All Valley Engineering Corporation is registered as a Small Business with the State of California. AVEC is a certified Women Owned and Minority Owned. The professionals at AVEC include engineers, technologists, planners, CAD designers, surveyors, economists, process engineers, Telecommunications Engineers, IT professionals and financial analysts, lobbyists and a range of other specialists as needed by the project. They join AVEC for the opportunity to apply their talents to complex and important challenges. Their diversity of background, discipline, gender, age, nationality, and outlook ensures our clients receive a balance of deep and broad expertise. AVEC combines in-depth customer insights with practical expertise in operations and economics to help our clients create sustainable growth. We at AVEC have recognized that product management is critical to increasing and sustaining revenue growth. Regardless of location or rank, our consultants are down to earth, approachable, and have a shared passion for doing innovative client work. We can manage entire solutions from our offices, integrate our people onsite with your teams, or allow you to leverage our highly skilled individual consultant resources. Give us a chance to work on your project and let our staff and experience produce the results your company deserves.

Our highly customized consulting teams bring each client a combination of deep industry knowledge and expert perspectives. We offer our clients fresh perspectives and breakthrough business insights. Our aim is to help our clients set new standards of excellence. Our team has extensive experience in all areas of developing distribution and transmission designs, substation design, protection philosophies, control logic design, protection and control schemes, implementing maintenance procedures and developing safety and testing guidelines, microprocessor relays in substation automation, protection and control, design calculations such as protective device coordination, short circuit studies, Staff Augmentation Security, Risk Assessments & Management, Gap Analysis, Vulnerability assessments, Penetration Testing, Social Engineering/Phishing, Security Audits, Security assessments, architecture & framework, policies and procedures review and recommended mitigations, IT Data Management Support. Website and intranet and e-commerce sites development and hardware level patents.

These experiences have been attained through the projects that AVEC has done with SMUD, PG&E, MID, Georgia Power, Florida Power & light, Company, Silversping Networks, Tav Networks, Corix, and HDR to name a few. We give our clients the confidence that our team is motivated to satisfy their needs and represent their interests. Our professionals leverage today’s leading-edge technologies to identify new solutions and drive business process improvements. Our project management consultants have a proven track record of completing highly complex projects on time and on budget.

Our corporate mission is to provide top notch IT solutions (in terms of onsite consulting and project services) to our customers.

All Valley Engineering is based on a 100% onshore (United States) model whereby all our service offerings are provided within the United States (either onsite or at our development center in California).

Engineering Services

All of our services in power systems engineering are custom tailored to each client to provide exactly what is needed to ensure safe & reliable operations. We offer Substation Apparatus, Substation Civil and Protection & Control Analysis / Design. We are here to give the support you need when you need it! All Valley Engineering specializes in providing design and support services with delivery of safe and reliable solutions for distribution, transmission and substation projects. We at All Valley Engineering provide electrical engineering services for all electrical upgrades and improvements to SCADA automation.

At All Valley Engineering Corporation, we are experienced in modifying distribution and transmission lines, substations with two (2) or three (3) feeder configurations for remote/automated operations and protective control and schemes. Our specific expertise lies in the preparation of distribution and transmission engineering design packages, processing the evaluation for retrofitting existing facilities, testing procedures for testing relay panels, creating safety evaluation during construction phase and installing substation remote control and automation equipment. We have worked directly with the SMUD District engineers and maintenance support group for design projects and process evolution projects. Working with SMUD and other entities over the past years has given us the experience needed to meet your needs.

Our highly experienced AVEC experts have extensive knowledge in electrical system coordination and control project designs, systems engineering, field testing & commissioning, project management, engineering design for distribution and transmission, substations, SCADA and system operations. The AVEC experts have provided valuable services in the field of electrical power systems to many power sector organizations.

The principal consultants average over twenty (20) years of experience with electric power utilities, State, system suppliers and consulting firms. We have a combined experience of more than 50 man-years in the areas of distribution and transmission design, substation design and protection specifications, understanding organizational changes and developing cohesive and inclusive methodologies for scope implementations procurement, project management, testing procedures and commissioning, safety standards, controls and communication systems in the United States. We at All Valley take care of our client’s needs relating to electrical and control/protection system upgrades.

Our electrical design engineers have experience in plans, specifications and construction administration services for many project types including low voltage, remodels, fueling facilities, site development, commercial, renewable energy, feasibility, energy studies, LEED and master planning.

We at All Valley Engineering believe that we only succeed when our clients succeed. Our engineering experience, capabilities and tools offer a wide spectrum of services from simple to complex product development.

Substation

• Electrical Engineering Design
• Substation Design and Protection
• Development of Protection Philosophies
• Development of Testing Standards
• System and Facility Review and Planning
• Development of protection engineering guidelines and protection philosophy for distribution
• Transformers, Transmission Transformers and Generator Step-up Transformers
• Development of relay setting templates for microprocessor relays including transformers
• Interconnections
• Provide expert subject matter and design support for application of microprocessor relays, distribution substation associated control schemes and control logic design as applicable in substation automation
• High Voltage Substation Design
• Substation SCADA Retrofit
• Provide expert subject matter and design support for application of microprocessor relays, distribution substation associated control schemes and control logic design as applicable in substation automation
• Site Development and Design
• Relay and Control Design and settings and configuration
• Transmission Line Relay Replacements
• Provide guidance and assistance to the design engineers to create drawings for the bus standard protection schemes and panel wirings including I/O assignments, AC and DC connections, DNP3 connections, relay/ test switch panel layouts, lock-out relays
• Upgrade of generator protection relays
• Synchronize Relay Upgrades
• Bus protection with safety standards analysis and application
• Provide guidance and assistance to the design engineers to create drawings for the bus standard protection schemes and panel wirings including I/O assignments, AC and DC connections, DNP3 connections, relay/ test switch panel layouts, lock-out relays
• Protection Philosophies and Control Schemes
• Protection and Control Upgrades for generators and transformers
• Transformer Protection, Hydro Generator Protection Upgrade
• 230kV Bus Protection
• Detailed elementary, schematic and wiring drawings for the controls and protection Process Integrator
• AC and DC System Design
• Equipment Design and Application

Transmission

• Recommend and Develop Protection Engineering Guidelines and Philosophy for transmission capacitor bank protection standards in compliance with current regulatory requirements and IEEE standards
• Distribution Automation (DA)
• Distribution Management Services (DMS)
• Procedure Design Structuring
• Engineering and Technical Studies
• Modeled the protection relaying system for various station service systems throughout the SMUD district including high side transformer #1 and #2, 13.8kV unit generators, 480V station service and excitation system. Conducted relay coordination and fault studies for the modeled system and provided written assessments and summary of studies and included recommendation for improvements
• Developed written guidelines for District's personnel to model the protection system station service system in ASPEN One-liner, to perform relay coordination and fault studies for similar systems Protection practices
• Interconnection Engineering, design with distribution and peak shaving generation interconnection
• Generator and renewable resource interconnection design
• Provide Onsite Construction Support
• Excitation System Replacement
• Security and Disaster Recovery
• Energy Management Services (EMS)
• Outages management System (OMS)

Power Utility Distribution

• Construction Engineering Support and Distribution System Design
• Static Excitation System Replacement
• Schematics, Elementary AC/DC, Functional One Line
• Drawing Updates to wiring, layout
• Three line and bill of materials
• Automatic Voltage Regulator (AVR) Upgrade
• Spillway Actuator Replacement
• Process Engineering and Construction Cost Estimating
• Re-engineering of lines of communication and workflow processes
• Process and Communications Methodology Structuring
• Design and Implementation of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)
• Energy Management Systems (EMS)
• Developing Testing Standards including peer reviews and input
• Load Management (LM) Systems
• Process Integrator
• Re-engineer Lines of Communication and Workflow Processes
• Construction Engineering Support
• Outage Management Systems (OMS)
• Provide guidance and assistance to design engineers to create DCN packages for the transformer standard protection schemes and panel wirings including I/O assignments, AC and DC connections, DNP3 connections, and panel layouts
• Provide detailed documentation for new interpersonal processes and schemes
• Understanding organizational changes and developing cohesive and inclusive methodologies for scope implementations
• Assisting the Utility to stay on point and work within scopes and procedures
• Designed Beckwith primary and backup protection relays for LTC using microprocessor relays M-2001C and M-0329B

Power Utility Management Services

• Develop Logic Schemes
• Process and Communications Methodology Structuring
• Currently have latest versions of AutoCAD and Raster design software Facilitate bringing together a diverse group of people and functions into a new set of procedures to stay on point within a new scope of organizational transitions
• Provide detailed documentation for new processes and schemes
• Training of SMUD and PG&E Engineers

Networking and
Telecommunications Services

All Valley Engineering has helped each of our customers by analyzing their current IT needs to come up with the most efficient, cost effective and business enhancing solutions. We have provided real solutions to issues that arise during utility smart network infrastructure deployments. We have delivered Engineering/Technology solutions to the Utility Industry.

Our fields of expertise include AMI infrastructure and remediation. We have experienced telecommunications experts that can engineer and design a new communications system or modify an existing telecom system to better suit our customer’s requirements We are experienced with Smart Meters, line sensors, voltage sensors, data capture and remote asset protection. All Valley Engineering has worked with different utility companies like SMUD, PGE, FPL and CONED to help in building a communications network. Network Architecture & Design

Managing & Optimizing Data Flow

• Smart Grid Technology
• Monitor Meter Deployment
• Remediation of Faulty ACP and Relays
• Field Surveying for ACP and Relay Install
• Systems Engineering
• Product Design (Hardware, Software & Integrated Systems)
• Design for Manufacturability
• Product Verification & Testing
• Failure Analysis & Root Cause Analysis
• Exception Investigation
• Perform Site Surveys, Network Design and Radio Frequency Testing

IT and
Cybersecurity Services

Information Technology Services

Superior performance in the digital age calls for an adaptable technology infrastructure that manages the complexities of a multi-cloud environment, embedded security and compliance policies and deep business alignment. All Valley is equipped with the best professionals that have extensive experience in providing a world class IT environment for our customers. Our goal is to provide enterprise level tools and dedicated support services at a fraction of the cost. We are committed to providing our customers with superior quality service and support from our highly qualified and friendly IT Team. We take pride in providing reliable and competitive services. Our fields of expertise include:

• Project Management
• IT Consulting
• IT Engineering Professional Services
• Metering System Design
• Security Strategy Audits and Compliance
• IT Strategy
• IT Enterprise Architecture
• Security Program Policies and Procedures
• Network Architecture and Strategy
• Infrastructure Automation
• Data Center Optimization and Virtualization
• Project and Program Management Services
• Business Process Assessment
• Lot Assessment
• Security Awareness and Training
• Risk Analysis and Management
• IT Security Implementation
• Enterprise Web Applications
• IT Staff Augmentation
• IT Architecture
• IT Desktop / Server Support Services
• Database Management
• Organizational Change Management
• Disaster Recovery Management
• Document Management Systems
• Database Management
• Vendor Procurement Management
• Security Management
• Asset Management
• Building Information Modeling
• Business and Process Modeling
• Commercial, Custom and In-house Software
• Web Based Software Development
• Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) & Mobile Device Management
• Building Information Modeling (BIM)
• Network Architecture
• Organizational Change Management
• Process and Operational Performance Engineering
• Project / Program Management
• Security Management
• Social Media Management
• Technical Manuals and Documentation
• Electrical Engineering
• Design and Implementation of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)
• Energy Management Systems (EMS)
• Distribution Automation (DA)
• Load Management (LM) Systems
• Relay and Control Design
• Substation Design and Protection
• Outage Management Systems (OMS)
• Training of Engineers/PE's by our PhD Staff
• Develop Testing Standards
• Develop Protection Philosophies
• Protection and Control Schemes
• Develop Logic Schemes
• System and Facility Review and Planning
• Control and Relay Design and Settings
• SCADA and Communications Design, Integration and Testing
• Metering System Design
• Interconnections
• Distribute and Peak Shaving Generation Interconnection
• Infrastructure Design and Remediation of Grid
• Radio Frequency Range and Coverage Testing
• GPS Data Gathering for Endpoint Locations
• Worked on HAN-Home Area Network Project
• Trouble Shoot Connection, Upload Firmware for different utility related devices
• Assistance in all aspects of Smart Meter Deployment in the field
• Perform Field Installation Audits, Give Training, Guidance and Instruction to field crew
• Worked on Advanced Meter Infrastructure (AMI), Distribution Automation (DA), Home Area Network (HAN), and Streetlight programs for multiple utility companies
• Perform Radio Frequency Range and Coverage Testing and Optimize Mesh Network
• Perform System Diagnostics to identify and resolve network problems
• Advanced Meter Infrastructure

Data Capture and Analysis

• Distribution Automation RF Site Surveys and AMI Network Optimization between AMI Network
• Nodes and Smart Meters
• Proficient in Proprietary Software to Home Area Network (DRI/DRM), Communications Tester (CT), SAP, ComSite, QuickBase and Spectrum Analyzers
• Infrastructures and Data Management Systems
• Develop Operational Processes
• Utilize Spectrum Analyzer to determine RF interference
• Utilize Communication Tester in remediation of devices
• Update Meter Firmware
• Field Surveying for capacitors, switches, & reclosures
• Remediation of Bridges and Master
• Distribution Automation Design and Remediation
• Meter Remediation
• Measure Cellular Coverage for WAN related devices
• Monitor Meter Deployment
• Discover and Provide Solution for Unreachable Meters in meter rooms
• RF Networks
• Mesh Networks
• Point-to-Multipoint
• Point-to-Point Microwave
• GSM/LTE
• Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11)
• Bluetooth
• VSAT
• Sensor Networks
• Licensed & Unlicensed Spectrum
• FCC Regulation & Certification
• RF Safety
• Power Line Carrier Technologies
• Telco & Ethernet Wired Networks
• On-Site Firmware & Equipment Upgrades

Cybersecurity Consulting

All Valley’s cybersecurity consulting services enhance security posture, reduce risk of data breaches and ensure compliance with relevant industry regulations. Our services cover the full lifecycle of cybersecurity; from policy, process and best-practices development to program management and the implementation of your custom, cybersecurity program.

Risk mitigation is conducted in accordance with industry best-practices and national standards. Risk assessment services provide an independent evaluation of your security posture ranging from the technical control to the overall program level.

Our approach uses industry best-practice frameworks while measuring against any regulatory requirements specific to your industry. Having a security-aware organizational staff greatly reduces the likelihood of a successful cyber-attack. Integrating a training session with these other offerings provides your staff an immediate opportunity to deeply understand the relevant risks and vulnerabilities specific to your organization. We assess your infrastructure for security weaknesses including computers, computer systems, networks and applications.

We offer a variety of services to help you achieve and maintain PCI compliance. This includes PCI gap assessments, annual AOC and SAQ assistance along with cybersecurity program development and design for PCI organizations. Using All Valley’s cybersecurity consulting services will help reduce these risks:

• Attacks that can lead to denial of services and defacement of the website
• Data Breach that can lead to theft of data, loss of data, damage to data and access to confidential data
• Unauthorized Access which involves tampering, interference, damage or unauthorized access to computer data and computer systems.

Our Cybersecurity Services Include:

• Compliance Scanning and Verification
• Endpoint Security Management
• Incident Response Planning
• IT and Security Architecture Assessment
• Network Security Device Management
• Network and System Implementation and Configuration
• Security Gap Analysis
• Policy Development and Review
• Review Compliance Policy Requirements
• Review Program Maturity
• Support Security Control Implementation
• Employee Training Event
• IT staff training event
• Incident Response Training Event
• External Scan and Analysis
• Internal Scan and Analysis
• Compliance Scan and Analysis

Contact

Address: 2313 C Street, Sacramento, CA 95816

Office: 916-448-2811

Mobile: 916-996-8028

Fax: 916-880-5511

Email: info@allvalleyengineering.com

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