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Allison Sawyer
2024 ArkLaTex Chapter Chair
Allison is the Energy Delivery Operations SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) Supervisor for the SCADA Display Team and SCADA Technology Team for American Electric Power. The teams’ responsibilities include updating and maintaining any SCADA display and database work, keeping up with the modern data exchange between the field and SCADA, troubleshooting SCADA data and technology problems, plus a numerous of other SCADA related items. She has been in the supervisor role for 3.5 years. She started working with AEP as a contractor in 2012 as a SCADA Analyst. She got hired on AEP in 2013 and stayed as a SCADA Analyst until she got promoted to the supervisor role. She graduated from the University of Louisiana at Monroe with a BBA in Computer Information Systems and a minor in Management before starting her career at AEP.
Allison lives in Shreveport, LA. She got married in 2019 to her husband Jarrod Sawyer and they have one dog child named Leo. Her hobbies include travelling, working out (mostly lifting weights or hiking), golfing, and trying new restaurants and visiting new places with her husband.
Allison has been a part of WiNUP for 5 years. She started off by receiving a free year membership through AEP by writing an essay of what WiNUP meant to her. She enjoyed being a part of such an awesome program so she continued renewing her membership and became active in the Chapter board. She was the IB rep for 2 years, then became secretary, then Vice Chair, and now is the Chapter Chair for 2024. She has assisted in items for the planning committee during her first conference in Little Rock.
“Our chapter is growing and becoming more and more engaged, so I am very excited on what more our Chapter and the organization as a whole has in store for the future. It is a great opportunity for not only yourself and the potential for growth within your career, but also a great opportunity for others to learn more about what you do and all of the avenues you can take with a career in the utility industry.”