Scope
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February
Houston Section/
Computer Society Meeting |
Where:
HESS (Houston Engineering and Scientific
Society)
5430 Westheimer @ Yorktown |
| When: |
| Thursday,
March 25, 1999 |
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6:00 - 6:30 p.m. Social
6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Dinner
7:30 - 8:30 p.m. Speaker |
| Cost |
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$15.00 for IEEE Members
with 48 hours reservations |
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$20.00 non-members |
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$10.00 students |
| Call (713)
207-IEEE to make your reservations. |
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MARCH
SECTION MEETING
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Reliant
Energy -
Houston Lighting & Power CompanyThe Project Year 2000
Our Plan of Action
|
 Reliant
Energy has dedicated itself since 1997 with a
Project Year 2000 team formed from members across
all business units. Reliant energy’s Project
Year 2000 plan is divided into energy management
information technology, end-user computing,
facilities and vendor suppliers. Our speaker this
month, Mr. David Baker, plans to enlighten us on
the activities, procedures and programs in place
at Reliant Energy – Houston Lighting &
Power Company to ensure a reliable source of
electricity to our customers on January 1, 2000.
Thanks to the teamwork and dedication driving the
Year 2000 Project, January 1 should be a day of
celebration for the company.
Our
speaker, David Baker, is a native Houstonian from
Bellaire. He graduated from Bellaire High School,
and then attended Texas A&M University where
he received a Bachelor of Science degree in
Mechanical Engineering in 1984.
After
graduation from Texas A&M, he started work
for Reliant Energy – HL&P at the South
Texas Project in Bay City. In his fourteen years
with Reliant Energy – HL&P he has had
additional assignments as a Lead Engineer in the
Performance and Start up Division of the Energy
Production Department, Lead Engineer at the Cedar
Bayou Power Plant, Technical Supervisor and
General Supervisor of Operations at the Bertron
Power Plant and District Manager of the Central
Houston District in the Customer Relations
Department.
In 1996, he became the
Service Area Manager in the Distribution Customer
Service Department for Reliant Energy –
HL&P’s Service Center in Baytown and
Channelview.
David
currently serves on the Baytown Chamber of
Commerce Board of Directors, is Chairman of the
Cedar Bayou Navigation District Board of
Directors and the Baytown/West Chambers County
Economic Development Foundation Board of
Directors, the Baytown United Way Board of
Directors, and the Galena Park Independent School
District Educational Foundation Board of
Directors. |
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