Mark McVey is a principal engineer for Dominion Energy in the transmission operations engineering department. With 35 years of engineering experience, McVey received his BSEE degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1982. He is the current IEEE series capacitor working group chair and recent chair of the IEEE capacitor subcommittee, and also serves as a member on multiple other IEEE working groups. He is currently convener of CIGRE B3.46 and an advisor for CIGRE B3 air-insulated substations. McVey is an advisor for the United States for International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Technical Committee 33 capacitor 1000 V and above, and coauthor of the Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers, Section 10.5 Power Capacitors. He is a senior member of the IEEE.