Ron Yoshimura brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to the UDC team, including over thirty-five years of experience developing and implementing enterprise software solutions for electric, gas, and water utilities using geospatial products from ESRI, General Electric, Intergraph, and IBM.
Prior to UDC, Ron worked for Open Systems International as a GIS consultant on OSI project implementations. There, he supported the development of OSI’s mobile product, Compass, performed business development efforts for OSI’s Spectra ADMS, Electra OMS, and OSI mobile products, and developed network models to support OSI ADMS applications. Ron also led General Electric’s GE Smallworld asset management campaign across the Americas, working with regional teams to ensure quality delivery through a diverse workforce.
“As Principal Consultant, my main objective is to ensure UDC clients are provided with pragmatic business solutions to their unique and complex challenges. I look forward to helping broaden our depth of knowledge of real-time OT solutions and building network models to support ADMS applications. I am focused on evolving technology capabilities and work practices at all utilities,” says Ron about his new role with UDC.
Ron will represent UDC at the upcoming DISTRIBUTECH International conference in San Diego. The UDC team will participate at the conference and exhibit at a kiosk in the Esri partner booth #3617. Topics of focus include ADMS readiness and data governance in addition to enterprise compliance and vegetation work management, digital twins, and operational analysis.
UDC is a privately owned and operated company with headquarters in Denver, CO. Platinum in the Esri Partner Network program, UDC focuses on partnering with utility and infrastructure companies to solve their business challenges by providing full lifecycle project and program support. The company’s Digital Utility® solution framework provides ArcGIS based enterprise applications and dashboards addressing common operational needs for utilities and supporting grid modernization.