Mr. Castellano served as Chief Gas Engineer and more recently as the Assistant to the Assistant Vice President of Gas Operations at Consolidated Edison Company of New York. In these positions, he administered, directed and set policies for the overall engineering requirements of ConEd’s gas system including supply, operation, design, construction, inspection and maintenance of the facilities and the component parts.

For 26 of his more than 32 years at ConEd, Mr. Castellano managed gas planning, analysis, design and meter engineering. He formed and managed ConEd’s initial Corrosion Engineering Section with responsibility for compliance with newly enacted federal and state regulations. Mr. Castellano was the primary developer in the early 1970’s of a master plan to rebuild and rehabilitate the ConEd gas system. He also co-authored the New York State Cast Iron Pipe Report working with executive level personnel at other gas utilities in the state.

During his other six years at ConEd, Mr. Castellano provided engineering design for major power generating stations including conceptual and feasibility designs for conversions from coal to oil burning and for the installation of package boilers and topping turbines.

Prior to joining ConEd, Mr. Castellano was with American Electric Power Company for six years as Supervising Designer for all aspects of large power generation stations. Earlier, he was with Celanese Corporation of America for two years designing power stations to provide power and process steam for chemical and petro-chemical plants in Mexico, Columbia and Venezuela.

Registered Professional Engineer in New York