Ryan Hancock promoted to Director of Engineering!
GridSME • July 28, 2022

We are pleased to announce the promotion of Ryan Hancock from Power Systems Engineer to Director of Engineering. Ryan joined GridSME in 2017 as a Staff Analyst and started getting his hands wet in multiple different projects, including compliance, proposals, and energy storage modeling work. Having an engineering degree from Humboldt State, he was destined to join GridSME’s engineering team, quickly learning the ropes from some of our other stellar engineers.


Ryan has proven himself as a strong engineer and a great team player and we have high hopes for his next opportunities as Director of Engineering.


Please join us in congratulating Ryan!


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