RYSEN deploys senior powerline professionals as owner's representatives, providing independent field validation from people who have personally performed the work they evaluate.
RYSEN provides senior-level powerline consulting and owner's representative services focused on protecting the owner's interests throughout the project lifecycle.
RYSEN provides experienced powerline field personnel for utility storm response and emergency restoration, available through storm-response partners or direct utility engagement. RYSEN performs assessment, observation, documentation, review and reporting. The utility directs the restoration work and makes all approval and payment decisions, and the contractor controls construction means and methods.
Field leadership backed by 24+ years of powerline and utility experience, including response to hurricanes, winter storms, wildfires, tornadoes and other system emergencies.
View Storm CapabilitiesThere is a meaningful difference between managing powerline construction and having personally performed the work. RYSEN brings experienced field professionals into the owner's decision-making process, adding practical construction knowledge to the engineering, project management, and commercial information already available to the client.
That field perspective helps owners evaluate bids, execution plans, field conditions, production assumptions, scope changes, and contractor performance with a stronger understanding of what the work actually requires. When a decision turns on practical details such as access, crew production, equipment requirements, or the conditions behind a proposed scope change, RYSEN brings the judgment of people who have done that work themselves.
RYSEN brings together enterprise financial management, industrial project leadership, and senior powerline field expertise, providing experienced support from project administration through field execution.
Kelli Smith brings 25+ years of enterprise financial management, accounting, and business operations leadership, including senior financial leadership within a multi-entity construction organization.
As Managing Member, she oversees RYSEN's business, financial, and administrative functions.
John Fondon brings 24+ years of powerline and utility experience, progressing from apprentice and Journeyman Lineman through Troubleman, Foreman and General Foreman, and field leadership roles into owner-side oversight. His work spans transmission and distribution, overhead and underground distribution, energized work, reconductor and pole replacement, and storm restoration, including storm damage assessment and utility-side storm response.
His owner's representative and contractor execution experience covers both T&E and unit-price contract structures, including review of crew, equipment, duration, production, scope, pricing, and change requests. He brings practical field judgment grounded in work he has personally performed.
Kyle Smith brings 30+ years of Instrument and Electrical design engineering, project leadership, and construction experience across the Gulf Coast. His career spans major petrochemical, oil & gas, and energy projects for clients including ExxonMobil, Valero, BASF, ConocoPhillips, Cheniere, and Enterprise Products Partners.
His background gives RYSEN insight into how major energy clients operate, how complex projects are managed, and what those organizations expect from professional partners.
RYSEN serves asset owners and owner-side organizations across transmission and distribution markets, including investor-owned utilities, municipal utilities, electric cooperatives, and other organizations responsible for power infrastructure projects.
Whether you're evaluating a contractor, managing a complex construction program, or simply want to understand how RYSEN can help protect your interests through experienced field advisory, we welcome the conversation.