Saurav Patel

Saurav Patel, P.E. currently serves as a Commissioning Manager at Black & Veatch since October 2025. Prior to this role, Saurav held the position of Principal Protection Testing Engineer at Portland General Electric from January 2019 to October 2025, where responsibilities included collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop test plans and enhance protection system reliability while ensuring regulatory compliance. Saurav has experience as a Transmission Protection Engineer at Entergy, focusing on relay settings, root-cause analysis, and corrective action implementation, as well as academic experience as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at NC State University. Educational qualifications include a Master of Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley, a Master of Science in Electric Power Systems Engineering from North Carolina State University, and a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from KIIT.