Dr. Vega is the founder, President and CEO of Analytics Automations LLC, a company created to bring people along the automations journey through data literacy, a proven data governance framework and analytics outsourcing services for companies needing a data & analytics hotline. Previously, Rolando led the analytics staff development and contributed to the creation of a brand-new department called Enterprise Advanced Analytics at CPS Energy. He has led teams in the development, deployment, and hyper-care of brand-new technologies such as Outage Prediction, Vegetation Management and Renewable Energy Market Operations and worked for 2-years in Market Operations where his team created insights valued in millions of dollars. Prior to joining CPS Energy, Rolando was Director of Research at the University of Texas at San Antonio where he led the R&D and product delivery in the subjects of renewable energy forecasting, LiDAR analytics, load forecasting and grid integration and optimization. Dr. Vega also started and was responsible for the renewable energy consulting business in US, Mexico, Brazil and China for a global risk management company. He has a Ph.D. in Wind Science & Engineering from Texas Tech University and holds a Professional Engineer license in Texas.