About Beckwith

Tom Branch

Manager of Beckwith Systems Engineering (BSE)
Beckwith Electric

Thomas L. Branch has been with Beckwith Electric Company since 1985. Tom Started his career as a design Engineer in the R&D department working on the design of an advanced capacitor control (M-0318). He was also a part of the team that developed Digital Multifunction Relay M-0420 for the interconnection of Distributed Energy Resources (DER) – a first in the USA in 1990. He was also instrumental in the design of Digital Tapchanger control (M-2001) and adapter panels. He was responsible for supporting all Beckwith Electric products including controls for transformers, voltage regulators and capacitor banks as well as protective relays and generator synchronizing systems. He then moved to Beckwith Systems Engineering (BSE) group where he is presently the manager. He directs projects related to transformer paralleling, generator synchronizing and motor bus transfer. He and his team designed and commissioned several hundred transformer paralleling schemes (up to 7 transformers) and motor bus transfer systems around the world.

Prior to joining to Beckwith Electric Tom worked at Paradyne Corporation (now AT&T) in Largo, FL on the design of communications equipment.

Tom has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from University of South Florida in Tampa. He is a Life Member of the IEEE and a member of the Power and Energy Society.