Ron Cunningham is an IT Enterprise Architect in the Enterprise Architecture and Strategy group at American Electric Power (AEP) with 40+ years’ experience in the electric utility industry, focusing for past many years on: grid modernization architecture; IT/OT interoperability industry standards development and use; use of enterprise architecture frameworks, development and refinement of grid and IT architectural metamodels, system modeling, formal ontologies; enhancing cybersecurity and grid related telecommunication technologies and architectures. Undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Physics with 2 years graduate work in Industrial Engineering with focus on operations research and economic analysis and selection processes for industrial projects.
