Matt Acton
Principal & Lead Consultant
Matt was formerly a regional manager and consultant for the Engineering News Record’s #1 ranked power engineering firm in the United States. Matt has also previously held management and engineering roles at power Transmission and Distribution utilities (public and private) across the US and Australia.
With strong business acumen and hands-on international experience in asset planning, engineering and design, project delivery, operations, IT, regulatory and finance; Matt is able to connect internal groups and across multiple industries, sectors and partners to broker deals, strategise and consult on:
- Private telecommunications networks including LTE, optic fiber and MPLS
- Information Technology / Operational Technology (IT/OT) convergence
- Protection, automation (SCADA) and industrial control systems including Distribution Automation, Distributed Management Systems (DMS) and Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems (DERMS)
- Renewable and distributed energy resources (DER) including Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS)
- Smart grid, grid modernization and grid transformation
- Smart cities and Internet of Things (IoT)
- Peer-to-Peer transactions and energy trading via blockchain
- Workforce automation and mobility
- Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI)
- Asset Management Systems, Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) and Work Management Systems
- Data management and analytics