About Us
Three industry veterans. Decades of distribution-equipment work.
SouthCentral Electrical Components & Consulting LLC is run by industry veterans who spent their careers designing, testing, and commissioning the equipment your system relies on — on both the manufacturer and utility sides. When you hire us, you get direct access to that depth: no hand-offs, no juniors learning on your dime.
Thomas A. Dauzat
Tom has spent nearly two decades inside the distribution-equipment industry, most of it centered on voltage regulators and distribution transformers. From 2010 to 2019 he led design, standards, and requisition work for GE's transformer business in Shreveport — supervising both domestic and Monterrey design teams to ISO-9001 standards, driving market share threefold to over $20M in sales, and authoring the torque-tolerance and design-standardization practices that became company references.
He continued on as Lead R&D Engineer at Prolec-GE, pioneering a hot-dip galvanization process for fully-welded regulator tanks, authoring Prolec's voltage-regulator control specifications, and taking named patents on voltage-regulator and underground network-protector designs. Since late 2022 he's served at AEP-SWEPCO, where he manages utility-side design and standards work across a growing set of regional zip codes. He's an active IEEE Power Energy Society and Standards Association member (Vice-Chair of IEEE PC57.12.24 for five years) and a Six-Sigma Green Belt — the sort of consultant who closes out the district backlog instead of waiting to be asked.
Will Elliott, PE
Will is a licensed Professional Engineer in Louisiana with fourteen years of design, testing, and standards work centered on distribution transformers. At Prolec-GE in Shreveport — where he's been Lead Design Engineer on the underground-transformer line since 2020 — he handles three-phase ratings up to 2,500 kVA at voltages as high as 34.5 kV, and serves as the key resource for DOE regulatory compliance and IEEE standards. His earlier GE tenure (2011–2019) included lead requisition and design work for utilities including ConEdison, AEP, and Entergy, plus training programs for both utility personnel and incoming design engineers.
Inside IEEE he chairs the Working Group authoring PC57.12.53, the first-draft guide for mitigating corrosion on underground transformers and related electrical equipment, and previously chaired the multi-year task force that investigated the problem. Before his career in design and standards he spent four years as a ground-based radio technician in the US Air Force, and during college interned on Advanced LIGO control-electronics validation at LIGO-LA — the same detector that recorded the first gravitational waves in 2015. His sweet spot is the intersection of practical product design, materials science, and the standards that govern both.
Principal Three
Details for our third principal will be posted here shortly. In the meantime, please reach out via the schedule page — any of our principals can field a scoping call and pull in the right specialist for your project.
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