Rye works in the Grid Resiliency & Public Safety Program Management Office (PMO), which has been the central group coordinating SCE’s companywide wildfire mitigation efforts. Rye has been principally responsible for all of the financial and regulatory aspects of these efforts. This includes developing cost forecasts for dozens of new mitigation programs, ensuring management of the operating plans (budgets) and providing financial and strategic support for major regulatory filings.

Rye has provided some of the greatest contributions to the efforts of the Grid Resiliency & Public Safety PMO. Specifically, her contributions made a tremendous impact on the successful completion of SCE's recent Grid Safety & Reliability Program (GSRP) filing that defined our company's comprehensive wildfire mitigation strategy and encompassed nearly $600 million of proposed spending from 2018-2020. The development and completion of this filing was a monumental effort, which kicked off in June 2018 and was substantially completed just two months later. This is an unprecedented feat for a filing of this magnitude. Filings of this size often take 12 to 18 months to complete. Without Rye’s tremendous leadership and commitment, this could not have been accomplished. Rye contributed to nearly every facet of the filing. At the outset, she drove multiple cross-functional teams to develop and refine the mitigation strategies and successfully did so under very demanding time constraints. Rye has an innate ability to quickly grasp the essence of the larger problem and helps the team work to a logical and practical solution that often challenges the status quo or traditional thinking. 

What is most impressive about Rye is not just the consistent demonstration of exemplary performance in a very dynamic environment, but that she lifts her peers with positivity, patience, professionalism, ownership and a company-first mindset while delivering the results under some of the most demanding, complex, stressful and time-sensitive circumstances. Rye consistently rolls up her sleeves to help others when she sees a team member struggling.