John Burger had served, prior to his retirement from AEP, as Staff Engineer and a Supervisor of Protection and Control. During his long career he also served as AEP Manager of System Protection and Control and Manager of Systems Measurements for AEP. He has been responsible for the engineering of stations and line protection and special projects including FACTS devices. He has performed design engineering, calculations and protection coordination studies at all voltage levels up to 765kV. He had developed design standards, setting templates and Application Guides for various protective relays. Duties included managing and providing engineering, design and technical guidance on matters pertaining to: 1) protection standards, guides and templates, 2) protection requirement and project scoping for new and existing stations, 3) evaluation and testing of new protection equipment, 4) relay and coordination studies and 5) development of standard processes and guides to meet NERC compliance. He is a registered Professional Engineer in multiple states . He was a IEEE Life Senior Member, past Chairman of Board- UCA International Users Group and member of the Reliability First Council: Underfrequency Load Shedding Standard Drafting Team (PRC-006). He has authored/co-authored over 30 articles and publications and have presented papers at IEEE meetings, regional and national protection and station related conferences such as the American Power Conference, Texas A&M, IEEE T&D, IEC TC-57 and the PEA.