144 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING Millennium Magazine Featured Listee WAYNE WOLLENZIEN SENIOR ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGIST American Electric Power Company Inc. Cheyenne, WY Throughout his career, Wayne Wollenzien has returned to a simple saying: the more effort and focus you put into something, the more you get out of it. It is an idea he has shared with his team as well, in keeping with his personal commitment to mentoring and helping others. Mr. Wollenzien has spent more than a decade advancing through roles in the electrical engineering industry. As a senior engineering technologist at American Electric Power Company Inc. (AEP), he commissions, calibrates, and maintains relays and various forms of protective communications, including the critical equipment that safeguards highvoltage transmission lines between power stations. He also oversees station networking, control and data acquisition communications. Mr. Wollenzien documents system issues, supervises contractors and construction activities, and guides coworkers managing projects remotely. In his supervisory capacity, he plans capital construction developments and initiatives projected several years into the future. Prior to his current position, Mr. Wollenzien held other roles within AEP, primarily in protection and control technology. He was previously a senior printed circuit board (PCB) designer at R&D Altanova, having worked in the same position for approximately seven years at Everett Charles Technologies. It was during this time that Mr. Wollenzien accomplished one of his most significant professional achievements. He developed an innovative circuit board that enabled clients to test their devices, saving them potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars. With this new board, customers could design a new daughter card to interface with the motherboard, rather than having to build a new circuit board every time they developed new chips. While Mr. Wollenzien moved on from Everett Charles Technologies soon after, the company shifted its operations as a result of his innovation, focusing on the daughter cards rather than producing large PCBs. Before building a successful career as an electrical engineer, Mr. Wollenzien began his professional life as a retail sales manager at Soccer Master, part of Ebrtos Inc., now known as Soccer.com. This was a pivotal time during which
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