Septimus Boshoff (M’ 1984, S.M’ 2020) has 36 years of professional experience, working on projects in various countries.  He has provided consulting services for analysis, design, specification and project engineering of power quality equipment, power electronic systems and reactive power compensation systems, including FACTS devices (SVC’s, STATCOM) in the high voltage power transmission industry.  Septimus has experience in bilateral power supply agreements between utilities (international) as well as between utilities and end users with specific reference to all technical matters.  He is skilled in engineering simulation and analysis of power system problems, including harmonic impact analysis and assessment high voltage power systems.  Septimus is currently a member of IEEE WG on STATCOM specification, as well as IEEE WG on DRPC protection specification.