Chris Shepherd, PMP, CVI

Three two-year terms. Voting member. ​The Reliability Issues Steering Committee (RISC) is an advisory committee that reports directly to the NERC Board of Trustees and triages and provides front-end, high-level leadership and accountability for nominated issues of strategic importance to bulk power system reliability. The RISC assists the Board, NERC standing committees, NERC staff, regulators, Regional Entities, and industry stakeholders in establishing a common understanding of the scope… Show more

Three two-year terms. Voting member. ​The Reliability Issues Steering Committee (RISC) is an advisory committee that reports directly to the NERC Board of Trustees and triages and provides front-end, high-level leadership and accountability for nominated issues of strategic importance to bulk power system reliability. The RISC assists the Board, NERC standing committees, NERC staff, regulators, Regional Entities, and industry stakeholders in establishing a common understanding of the scope, priority, and goals for the development of solutions to address these issues. In doing so, the RISC provides a framework for steering, developing, formalizing, and organizing recommendations to help NERC and industry effectively focus their resources on the critical issues needed to best improve the reliability of the bulk power system. Benefits of the RISC include improved efficiency of the NERC standards program. In some cases that includes recommending reliability solutions other than the development of new or revised Reliability Standards and offering high-level stakeholder leadership engagement and input on issues that enter the standards process. Show less

One-term. Voting Member. The Reliability and Security Technical Committee (RSTC) is a standing committee that strives to advance the reliability and security of the interconnected bulk power system (BPS) of North America by:
• Creating a forum for aggregating ideas and interests, drawing from diverse industry stakeholder expertise, to support the ERO Enterprise's mission.
• Leveraging such expertise to identify solutions to study, mitigate, and/or eliminate emerging risks to the BPS for… Show more

One-term. Voting Member. The Reliability and Security Technical Committee (RSTC) is a standing committee that strives to advance the reliability and security of the interconnected bulk power system (BPS) of North America by:
• Creating a forum for aggregating ideas and interests, drawing from diverse industry stakeholder expertise, to support the ERO Enterprise's mission.
• Leveraging such expertise to identify solutions to study, mitigate, and/or eliminate emerging risks to the BPS for the benefit of industry stakeholders, the NERC Board of Trustees (Board) and ERO Enterprise staff and leadership.
• Coordinating and overseeing implementation of RSTC subgroup work plans.

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Sponsors provide subcommittees, working groups and task forces:
- Support for the Chair and Vice-Chair
- Liaison between the RSTC and the Committees
- Clarity on expectations and desired accomplishments
- Broader view of the link between the RSTC and the various committees
- Highlight opportunities for collaboration with other committees
- Assist in
* Addressing roadblocks
* Gaining resources
* Upward communication

Content contributor. The CCSWG develops APTA standards for rail and bus system control and communications security. The CCSWG draws upon existing standards from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s Critical Infrastructure Protection program (NERC CIP), NIST, ISA, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), physical security knowledge, and logical/administrative security. Additional subject matter experts (SMEs) from transit agencies, transit vendors… Show more

Content contributor. The CCSWG develops APTA standards for rail and bus system control and communications security. The CCSWG draws upon existing standards from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s Critical Infrastructure Protection program (NERC CIP), NIST, ISA, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), physical security knowledge, and logical/administrative security. Additional subject matter experts (SMEs) from transit agencies, transit vendors, government departments (e.g., DHS, TSA, the John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center [Volpe]), and consulting organizations participated in defining and reviewing this document. Show less

Corporate Secretary. International Training and Equipping Ministries (ITEM) provides previously untrained African pastors with a biblical and theological foundation, and training in-country African Trainers who will be able to train others on their own.

Content contributor. Transition to Technical Rationale for Guidelines and Technical Basis (GTB) that do Not Contain Compliance Examples of Approaches
The NERC Standards Committee (SC) charged the Technical Rationale Advisory Group (TRAG) with developing and overseeing an effective approach to implementing the “Technical Rationale for Reliability Standards” policy endorsed by the SC at its June 14, 2017 meeting. Consistent with the policy, the NERC Reliability Standards template will no… Show more

Content contributor. Transition to Technical Rationale for Guidelines and Technical Basis (GTB) that do Not Contain Compliance Examples of Approaches
The NERC Standards Committee (SC) charged the Technical Rationale Advisory Group (TRAG) with developing and overseeing an effective approach to implementing the “Technical Rationale for Reliability Standards” policy endorsed by the SC at its June 14, 2017 meeting. Consistent with the policy, the NERC Reliability Standards template will no longer include a Guidelines and Technical Basis (GTB) section. Upon completion of this project, the GTB will be replaced by Technical Rationale documents and/or Implementation Guidance, as described below. Show less

Director - 3 years, Volunteer Teacher over 9 years.
Program included six levels of English literacy programs; served 90 - 150 adult immigrants via three eight-week terms.

Three 3-year terms. Original position(s) from 2002 to 2008, and again from December, 2012 to June 2015.
* InfraGard is designed to address the need for private and public-sector information-sharing mechanisms at both the national and local levels. Its objectives are:
- Provide members a forum for education and training on infrastructure vulnerabilities and protection measures
- Insure the protection of computer intrusion/threat data shared among InfraGard members and the FBI Field… Show more

Three 3-year terms. Original position(s) from 2002 to 2008, and again from December, 2012 to June 2015.
* InfraGard is designed to address the need for private and public-sector information-sharing mechanisms at both the national and local levels. Its objectives are:
- Provide members a forum for education and training on infrastructure vulnerabilities and protection measures
- Insure the protection of computer intrusion/threat data shared among InfraGard members and the FBI Field Offices through compliance with proprietary, legal, and security requirements
- Increase the quantity and quality of intelligence based infrastructure intrusion/threat reports provided to local FBI Field Offices (for investigation and follow-up)
- Increase interaction and information sharing among InfraGard members and their associated local FBI Field Offices on infrastructure threats, vulnerabilities, and inter-dependencies Show less