Candidate Statement: Nancy Bui

Nancy Bui for SMUD Board

My family immigrated to the United States in 1975 from Vietnam. My mother raised three daughters on her own in the bay area. I worked my way through college and was the first person in my entire family to ever graduate from college. I graduated from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, majoring in Economics and Management Information Systems.

I am a technology and management consultant who has worked for two of the world’s most prestigious consulting companies, also known as the remaining “Big 5” – Deloitte & Touche and Accenture. I have worked closely with health care, government, and energy agencies successfully bridging the gap between technology and business. I have worked with various State and local government agencies, energy, and health care organizations throughout my career in technology and project management. My past client was the California ISO (CAISO) where I provided software development and project management expertise for their software system implementations. I worked side by side with energy analysts to help build compliance and legal systems for the CAISO. I have worked with executive level management for some of the State’s and Country’s largest employers, bringing efficiency and standards to their organizations. As a consultant on some of the county’s largest and most complex Health and Human Services software systems, I became an expert in building relations between the public and private sector. I am currently a project management and technology consultant for Sutter Health Information Technology Services.

I have always had a commitment to my community. I served on the Board of Directors for Sacramento Advocates for Girls Empowerment, a non profit that is entirely devoted to the encouragement and empowerment of middle-school and high-school girls in pursuit of careers in computer-related technology, life sciences, engineering, science, math and law.

On the Sacramento Transportation and Air Quality collaborative I represented the City of Rancho Cordova on. For over five years, the Collaborative developed a long range and comprehensive strategy for the Sacramento countywide area to improve transportation and air quality within a regional context, including relevant land use and economic vitality strategies.

As a volunteer teacher for Junior Achievement (JA), I brought the real world to students. JA Worldwide is the world’s largest organization dedicated to educating students about workforce readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy through experiential, hands-on programs.  Junior Achievement is a non profit organization that brings the real world to students through hands-on curriculum delivered by a trained classroom.

As the founder of Bear HUGS (Hope You Give Someone), I was spoke to school children about child abuse and have collected teddy bears for children in abusive and traumatic situations.

I answered the call to duty after Hurricane Katrina and become a Red Cross Volunteer. I am a Disaster Services volunteer for the SacSierra chapter of the Red Cross.

As a member of the SMUD board, I will continually work to maintain safe, reliable power at affordable rates. As an Efficiency Consultant for the California Independent System Operator, the organization that regulates the California energy grid, I have worked closely with energy agencies and our government to bridge the gap between technology and business. I believe in fiscal accountability and will ensure that savings are passed on to you, the ratepayer. I am committed to serving our community on the SMUD board.

With the tough decisions that SMUD will need to make over the next ten years regarding our energy supply and technology solutions, my experiences have prepared me to make responsible planning decisions. SMUD has done an incredible job of keeping our rates among the lowest in the state and has invested greatly in green energy. I plan to stay the course and continue to support SMUD’s successful policies. I want to be a part of the responsible stewardship of our utilities and keep Sacramento on the path to discovering and developing clean, reliable, and renewable energy.

Contact Nancy Bui at nancy@nancybui.com

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