Master of Business Administration
In progressKeller Graduate School of Management
AI and Business Analytics. Currently enrolled, expected 2028.
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Louie Santino Venegas
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
As a Senior Field Service Technician at Fluence Energy, I actively participate in managing multi-site operations for utility-scale battery energy storage while personally driving the technical reliability of each system through daily troubleshooting and targeted maintenance strategies. My work blends operational leadership with hands-on technical execution to safeguard asset availability across Southern California. I'm currently advancing my analytical and strategic capabilities as an MBA candidate in AI and Business Analytics, building on a Summa Cum Laude BS in Computer Information Systems.
- Southern California
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About
Before joining Fluence Energy, I worked as an independent contractor, managing properties and resources for multiple clients. That background shaped how I operate: I do not wait for direction, and I stay in the work until the problem is solved. Today I run operations across more than twelve utility-scale battery energy storage sites in Southern California at Fluence Energy, leading an internal team and coordinating specialized contractors through every phase of the maintenance cycle.
The field taught me that operational failures almost always have a traceable cause. I am pursuing an MBA in AI and Business Analytics at Keller Graduate School of Management to formalize that instinct into the organizational, strategic, and leadership frameworks that turn field experience into operational authority.
The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
Education
View program flyer, 3 pages Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems
DeVry University
Summa Cum Laude, 3.97 GPA. Conferred October 2025.
Verify on Parchment Associate of Applied Science in Information Technology and Networking
DeVry University
With Honors. Conferred June 2024.
Verify on Parchment Undergraduate Certificate in Programming Essentials
DeVry University
With Honors. Conferred April 2024.
Verify on Parchment Global Awareness Badge
Keller Graduate School of Management
Completion of LAS432, Technology, Society and Culture. Issued August 2025.
Verify on Parchment PCEP, Certified Entry-Level Python Programmer
OpenEDG Python Institute
Exam PCEP-30-02. Independent certification of Python programming fundamentals.
Verify on Credly Projects
Selected coursework and capstone work. Each piece opens here in place.
A four part study of Robinhood's response to the 2021 meme stock crisis: the images of change its CEO moved through, a 7-S diagnostic of why the organization was misaligned from the start, an analysis of how the 2022 restructuring was communicated, and two original replacement communications built from layoff survivor research.
Leadership and Organizational Behavior
Organizational behavior theory tested against a real field services operation: the MARS model, expectancy theory, values congruence, and constructive conflict, traced through hiring, motivation, and team structure.
Essentials of Accounting, Finance, and Economics
A comparative ratio analysis of Microsoft and Apple across seventeen measures of liquidity, solvency, and profitability, worked from their fiscal 2021 filings and closing with an investment view.
Senior Project
Undergraduate capstone: a research pilot proposing IoT environmental monitoring to optimize inverter maintenance in desert-climate battery energy storage sites.
Project Management
Scope, schedule, budget, risk, and stakeholder communication, the same framework applied daily to multi-vendor coordination in the field. Opens a full page: Microsoft Project schedules, UML modeling, requirements specifications, and test planning.
Technical Gallery
Screenshots recovered from six years of coursework and sorted by the class they came from: IDEs and terminals, virtual machines, packet captures, database tools, cloud consoles, and instrumented hardware on the bench. Captures from the work as it was being done, not mockups.
Professional Experience and Applied Skills
Six competencies, each with its coursework foundation and the field evidence that backs it.
Operations Management
Regional field operations for utility-scale energy storage.
- Foundation
- MBA in AI and Business Analytics, Keller Graduate School of Management, in progress.
- In the field
- Coordination across more than twelve BESS sites in Southern California, contractor crew management, and the on-site owner representative function through every phase of the maintenance cycle.
Organizational Behavior and Change Management
Keeping a team steady through change.
- Foundation
- Leadership and Organizational Behavior (MBA, Mar 2026) and Managing Organizational Change (MBA, May 2026).
- In the field
- Stepped into the team lead role after a manager departure, held operational continuity, and built working influence across the California engineering group.
Quality Assurance and Process Improvement
Making quality measurable across sites.
- Foundation
- Database systems and technical writing coursework, BS CIS.
- In the field
- Built and maintain a QA tracking workbook used across multiple sites, with dashboard, charts, and master data tabs feeding site-level decisions.
Electrical Power Systems and Field Operations
Standards-driven electrical work on live infrastructure.
- Foundation
- NFPA 70E, Infrared Thermography Level I, and EPA 608 certifications.
- In the field
- Preventive, corrective, and reactive maintenance across utility-scale BESS installations, from inverters and MV/HV gear to thermal inspection programs.
Project Coordination
Keeping vendors, work orders, and parts moving in step.
- Foundation
- Project Management (BS, Nov 2024).
- In the field
- Multi-vendor coordination on active sites, work order execution, and inventory management under maintenance-window pressure.
Cost-Conscious Decision Making
Graduate finance coursework, applied to how I weigh field decisions.
- Foundation
- Essentials of Accounting, Finance, and Economics (MBA, Nov 2025).
- In the field
- Looking for the sustainable fix to problems that recur across sites, the one that costs the company less over time than repeating the same repair.
Sophisticated Hobby: Software Development
Curiosity that outruns the job description. All of it built outside work and outside coursework. Status is stated per project, because most of these run without ever having been shipped as a product.
Three things run through the lot of them: position sizing and falsification show up in every finance project, which is a point of view rather than a coincidence; several were audited and one was retired when the evidence said to; and cost or hardware limits drove the architecture up front instead of being worked around later.
Certifications
- NFPA 70E Electrical safety in the workplace, arc flash and shock hazard protection.
- Infrared Thermography, Level I Certified thermographer for predictive electrical and mechanical inspection.
- EPA 608 Refrigerant handling for HVAC and cooling systems.
- OSHA 10 General industry safety and health.
- CPR Current cardiopulmonary resuscitation training.