There is something very fishy about the hiring of Janisse Quiñones. Take a look at her past experience.
There is nothing about her past jobs, all relatively short tenures, that suggests she was at all ready to become the head of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.
Whether she was paid $1 per year, or the reported $725K per year, she seems entirely inexperienced for this job. And now, tens of thousands of residents have lost everything due to her utter incompetence.
The start of her linked in profile states “our team has taken significant steps toward a sustainable energy vision for the city………we’ve focused on the integration of clean energy solutions and enhancing infrastructure resilience.”
what more needs to be learned? No doubt she has Greta Thunberg on a consulting contract. How many things, and how serious have to break before serious people again are in charge?
Janisse Quinones, she has no cajones so she’s perfect for the job!
Chief= like elizabeth warren?
Engineer= like pachuri the train driver?
Yeah, I’d say she has focused entirely on green power, and completely ignored everything else.
Hired to manage diversity, and di verse it got.
For a contrary point of view, and as someone with over 40 years of experience as an engineer, this looks like a pretty typical career path. Several years working her way up to a senior position, a jump to a executive position at a junior startup that crashed, several bounces through private utilities at a senior level, until landing at a public utility in charge. Also, extensive coast guard experience in leadership positions. On paper, this is a perfectly reasonable engineering career.
Now, yes, she probably said the right things at the interview about renewable energy, but she does appear to have suitable experience. She also was not in charge at the most recent public utility very long.
Nothing I am saying precludes her from being incompetent, but her career record is not a smoking gun in and of itself. She was also probably hired to specifically promote DIE and to focus on renewable power, rather than reliability, and she probably did as she was told, as her career record would indicate she does do.
Well William, I’v worked with a lot of engineers, and the fact she had engineering in her resume’ would be a huge red flag for me.
When butchy, fat bottomed misanthropes go home to roost then proceed to wreck shop.
Her news conference the other day was a master class of incoherence. “…I award you no points and may God have mercy on your soul”.
Incompetence or even average ability manifests itself pretty early on and superiors can sniff it out a mile away. I’d wager she’s had some help along the way.
Karen Hultgren style.
I agree with William on this one. On paper this seems like a reasonable path although it appears she may have been promoted over her head quite early.
Could very well be a classic case of The Peter Principle.
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Engineers think in a linear manner, which is a huge No NO for that position , I see you’v never had to vett someone for a position you yourself were not qualified for.
I’m with William on this. She has a very typical resume of someone heading to a top position in a large organization. Graduating Magna Cum Laude is not a easy task. She did it.
She graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Puerto Rico. Make of that what you will.
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” the same level of Latin honors conferred by different institutions can represent different levels of achievement.”
I guess ignorance is bliss!
Janisse Quiñones? I think that was the name of the dive bar I walked past on the beach in Mazatlan. Cheap cervezas up front, pretty chicas massage out back.
She is typical of many female “engineers” in today’s world. I don’t if anyone is offended by this “sexist” comment.
They’ve never worked in the trenches, never got their hands dirty, and have never “created the sausages”, as it were.
The best bosses and managers I ever worked for, worked their way up from the bottom, they knew the nuts and bolts of how it got designed, built and the details of how and why.
The worst ones were the titled, lettered women. They loved their paper credentials, were book smart, but, never had any mechanical skills nor practical adaptability to problems.
But they sure liked reports and blame shaming others.
This is the problem I see here in LA, history repeats itself, the women have no practical, hands-on experience to see the actual problems. But they’re great at writing glossy reports.
It’s not just the female ones… a lot of the EITs we have don’t want to go out into the field, they want to sit in their offices and just do their design work.
I will give credit to at least one of them, she wants to be out in the field more so that she can see the construction and in service testing, because in the long run it’s both more advantageous and will make her a better designer.
Interesting.
Odd voices from a distant conference room assuring that the resume and career path is typical.
Nothing to see here, please move along.
$5 says she wears a beret.
Look up Cobra LLC who she worked for they are developing smart cities . Look up Mulsanne capital