Meet our Team

Darin Johnson is the president of BIS Consulting. His expertise includes risk-based decisions support methods, integrating asset condition, criticality, risk including wildfire risk, and life-cycle cost to help optimize spending on aging infrastructure and to evaluate complex projects, such as generator unit life-extension or distribution system modernization.

He and his colleagues at BIS Consulting are thought-leaders in the industry, developing novel approaches to asset health indexing, consequence of failure in highly redundant networks, and project analyses involving many assets and multiple streams of benefits (e.g., reliability, avoided wildfire risk, deferred capital). These techniques have been applied across a wide range of asset types: electric transmission and distribution; hydro, thermal, and wind generation; water/wastewater; facilities and fleet; and ferry terminals and vessels.

Darin is the Lead Convenor of the Risk Management working group of the International Wildfire Risk Mitigation Consortium, and Facilitator of the Asset Management working group of the Electric Asset Best Practice Consortium.

Credentials
• Licensed Professional Engineer, Washington State
• B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington

Relevant Expertise
•  Decision-support methodologies
•  Risk-based economic evaluation
•  Capital planning and prioritization
•  Statistical analysis of failure data
•  Asset Management strategic planning

Neil Reid is the vice president of BIS Consulting, LLC. His experience includes asset management, conceptual engineering, project management and scheduling, preliminary and final design, cost estimating and control, equipment specification, construction management and testing of hydroelectric, fossil and nuclear power plants, high voltage substations, transmission, and distribution systems..

In addition to design, he has an extensive background in managing, defining and evaluating power supply interconnection plans, power and energy requirements, and load flow, short circuit, and voltage drop studies. He has provided expert testimony related to electric power system operation and safety. Mr. Reid is a registered Professional Engineer in several states in the United States of America and is qualified for registration in Canada and the United Kingdom.

Credentials .
•  Licensed Professional Electrical Engineer, 7 States
•  B.Sc., Electrical Engineering, University of Bristol, England
•  44 years in power transmission

Relevant Expertise .
•  Asset Management
•  Condition Assessment and Health Indexing
•  Project Management
•  Transmission & Distribution Systems Engineering

Josh Mullins is a program manager in the asset management practice at BIS Consulting, LLC. He is an economist with a background in civil engineering. His experience includes general risk-based analyses, economic model development, Monte Carlo uncertainty analysis, database management, and software development in a variety of languages.

Relevant Expertise
•  Risk-based economic evaluation
•  Statistical analysis of failure data
•  Economic methodology development
•  Database management
•  Software development