Daniel Taft is a Chief Engineer at Con Edison. He received a Bachelor of Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey and a Master of Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. He began his career at General Electric in Philadelphia in 1979 and later took a position at Hubbell, Inc. in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Joining Con Edison in 1990, Dan held positions as an Engineer, Senior System Operator, and Section Manager, all in the area of high voltage transmission. He took a position with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in Washington, DC in 2009 and returned to Con Edison two years later. Dan’s hobbies include photography, ballroom dancing, and bowling.