John He

5.00 AM

Sometimes work can be a bit challenging so most mornings, before work, I would go to the gym for around 90 minutes. This usually consists of 30 mins of cardio, 40 mins on weights, and 20 mins on stretches.

7.15 AM

Around this time I would go to the office. As today I’m the second to arrive, I won’t need to walk around turning on the lights. The first task is always to grab milk from the kitchen and have a weet-bix breakfast, often I will skim read the emails.

8.00 AM

There were two tasks to do this morning, firstly I need to finish off a customer connection study. Since I completed all the modelling and bulk of the connection study write up yesterday, it means that this morning I just need to write up the study’s conclusion, proof-read and get the connection’s planner to do the final review.

Afterwards my goal was to finalise the back-feed methodology for Kapuni substation to isolate a portion of the 33kV and 11kV circuits of a proposed upgrade. This mean today I had to simulate an outage area using PSS SINCAL and find ways to maintain full-back to the rest of the network outside the outage area.

Just before 10am I was visited by one of the Taranaki project managers offering to take me on a site visit to one of my projects (MRA7 Feeder upgrade). Naturally I agree! At site I meet the contractors responsible for the project, I felt some satisfaction my project was nearing completion.

11.30 AM

Personally, I start my lunch slight earlier. This is done to avoid needing to join the microwave queue. Lunch time is also the time to raid the fruit basket and chat with colleagues on what to do this weekend. As always, I proposed a half day walk …… my colleagues weren’t as keen.

12.30 PM

Back to finishing off what I started this morning and by 2pm I attended a meeting. The meeting was setup so that all the people involved in the Hospital project could sit together and go over a consultants proposal.

After the meeting, it was time to respond back to all my remaining emails, get a glass of milk and catch up with my mentor. Today we discussed the vector group and phase shifting as one my other projects involve exploring the idea of using phase shift transformers to tie two 11kV networks operating 30 degrees apart.

4.30PM

Normally on a weekday, after I get back home, I’ll have an early dinner, watch the news and chill with flatmates, it’s time to hit the shower and sleep early as I always start early. However, it’s now Friday night aka “PUBG night”. After the news, I’ll hit shower and by 20:30 its time catch up with university mates and do several battle rounds on PUBG mobile.