Overview
SDG&E’s Electric System Hardening (ESH) Program focuses on reducing fire risk through various strategies like pole replacement, advanced monitoring, covered conductor, and strategic undergrounding. The program includes several sub-programs, each addressing different aspects of wildfire risk. They address high-risk factors such as pole replacement, conductor upgrades, undergrounding, crossarm replacement, and SCADA device installations to detect power line issues. These programs have specific goals reported to CPUC, ensuring compliance and goal achievement each year.
Cordoba’s Role
Cordoba supports SDG&E’s Electric System Hardening efforts by managing two of the utility’s flagship wildfire‑risk reduction programs: the Fire Risk Mitigation (FiRM) Program and the Pole Risk Mitigation and Engineering (PRiME) Program. Our team helps resolve complex challenges—from rights‑of‑way and environmental constraints to joint‑pole coordination and material availability—while keeping each program on schedule and aligned with performance goals.
For the FiRM Program, Cordoba assumed leadership in 2017 and quickly stabilized a program that had struggled under previous managers. We now oversee project management, workflow development, performance tracking, stakeholder coordination, inspections, and closeout, enabling the program to consistently meet annual targets.
As program manager and owner’s engineer for the PRiME Program, Cordoba leads project management, engineering oversight, permitting, construction coordination, QA/QC, and reconciliation. We established the program’s PMO framework and introduced tools for quality trending, data management, and continuous improvement, helping the program meet or exceed key performance indicators year after year.
