Energy storage
Operations professionals in Energy storage
Energy storage operations involve real constraints—equipment downtime, staffing limits, grid demand spikes. Talk with operations leaders about which bottlenecks forced them to change plans, delay maintenance, or reduce output. Their answers show where your systems need to absorb friction or where you need different tools.
Professionals to explore
01—10Brian Dastin
LinkedInExperience: Director, Energy Storage Global Operations · Tesla
Has experience leading operations for a utility-scale industrial energy storage business, overseeing sales, deployment and planning functions.
Don Lee
LinkedInExperience: Vice President Operations · Wartsila Energy Storage
Has experience leading global operations teams designing, installing, and optimizing battery energy storage systems and providing operations and maintenance support.
Gil Makabenta
LinkedInExperience: Director of Operations · NextEra Energy Resources
Has experience managing operations for a large portfolio of utility-scale PV solar and battery storage assets as general manager.
Jarod Cole
LinkedInExperience: Director of Operations · EnerSmart Storage Holdings LLC
Experience directing operations at a company developing battery energy storage systems, including O&M management, grid integration, and utility interconnection.
Jason Gayton
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Field Operations · Powin
Has experience directing field operations for installation, commissioning, and maintenance of utility-scale battery energy storage systems across multiple sites.
Joel Wessel
LinkedInExperience: Director of Energy Storage · Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives, Inc. (IEA), a MasTec Company
Has experience directing energy storage operations at an energy infrastructure company, following prior solar and storage operations roles.
Juan Nasiff
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Operations - Solar and Storage - Florida Onboarding and Operational Excellence · NextEra Energy, Inc.
Has experience directing operations for solar and storage onboarding and operational excellence within a renewable energy utility company.
Lily Thompson
LinkedInExperience: Director of Battery Operations North America · Redwood Materials
Has experience directing battery operations, coordinating sourcing, integration, logistics, and execution of large utility and commercial energy storage projects.
Peter Biede
LinkedInExperience: Director Of Operations · IHI Terrasun Solutions
Has experience directing operations at a company providing battery energy storage systems integration, procurement, and commissioning services.
VICTOR HERNANDEZ MARTINEZ
LinkedInExperience: Head of Operations Iberia - Solar PV BESS - O&M Services · RES
Experience leading solar PV and battery energy storage system operations and maintenance services, managing large technical and O&M teams across Spain and Portugal.
Choose the right perspective
Look for candidates who managed a specific site or fleet and faced actual capacity limits or handoff failures. Ask them to describe a moment when something broke down—a shift change that lost context, a supplier delay that cascaded, equipment that couldn't respond fast enough. Avoid general process talk; focus on what they fixed because it cost them.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01Tell me about a time when a handoff between teams—operations to maintenance, control room to field crew—caused a real problem. What actually went wrong?
- 02When your storage system hit capacity limits, what had to give? How did you decide what to defer or reduce?
- 03Walk me through an exception that surprised you—something the standard procedures didn't cover. How did you handle it, and what would you change?
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