Sam Mullen is a System Restoration Planner for an Atlantic Energy company. He has more than twenty-five years' experience in various operating areas, has written several editions of the company's corporate contingency plan, and has consulted on many others. He develops training and directs corporate emergency planning and disaster recovery exercises. Mullen has written articles for technical publications and regularly speaks at conferences and seminars. He has presented his model for emergency plan development at Electric Power Research Institute's first two conferences on utility emergency preparedness. He has assisted in the development of software applications and has chaired and worked on several task forces related to emergency preparedness and the installation of automated systems.