Community Energy Labs is reinventing energy choice using modern technology. With our grid-smart building controls, commercial building owners and facility managers can upgrade and autonomously operate clean, affordable, all-electric buildings without sacrificing occupant comfort, or disrupting power markets or the grid.

As a business consultant & then COO, helped pivot a 35 year old revenue based non-profit, post-asset acquisition to a modern, mission-driven energy services company. Conceived operating & market strategy based on advancing communities’ abilities to participate in the new energy economy. Tested customer validation for minimum viable product in four product & service lines: Policy, R&D, Market Adoption of Grid Edge Technology, Consulting. Assembled & managed teams including proposal teams that authored over $4.6 million in grid modernization R&D funding proposals with more than $0.5 million in matching contributions in under six months.

Conceived of & led development for PECI’s community smart grid infrastructure consulting & project development protocol & practice. Developed & led technical product development teams & the Local Energy Exchange Platform – a home energy automation platform that makes productive use of consumer automated devices to balance the grid.

Successfully, started, grew & sold a technology assisted service company providing internal public health campaigns to medium & large businesses. Led a team & virtual workforce with over 60 contract & permanent staff in four West Coast states. Served a variety of medium to large public & private employers with operations in US, Europe & Asia. Maintained high level of quality & gross margin (60-70%) while operating leanly. All client programs scored in top 15% of industry quality benchmark (Health Enhancement Research Organization).

18 years of strategy, innovation, management consulting, financial forecasting, technology transfer, business start-up, angel investing & operations experience in: electric power (coal & gas central generating stations; solar PV; efficiency); oil, refineries & manufacturing (Shell, BASF); Smart Grid & Grid Edge (PECI); Transactive Energy Systems (GridWise Architecture Council); United States healthcare; information technology & revenue-based not for profit & sustainability efforts. Relevant examples follow; however, my portfolio pages contain more detail.

• PacifiCorp : Regulatory Compliance Handbook for the 510 MW PacifiCorp Lewis River Hydro System Dams’ Operations
• AirCare Plus : Commercial HVAC Retrofit Aggregation Platform for PECI
• Solar 4R Schools : National Solar PV Education & Project Development for Bonneville Environmental Foundation
• Uptime Consulting, Planned Outage Efficiency & Just-in-Time Predictive Maintenance for generation assets totalling more than 3000 MW for Tucson Electric Power, Salt River Project, Colorado Springs Utilities, BASF
• OMRI Licensing Review Program : National Organic Product Certification Program for Organic Materials Review Institute (OMRI)
• Pacific NW Environmental Business Trade Analysis for NEBC & the Japanese External Trade Organization (JETRO)
• The Race to Stop Global Warming & Speaker Series for The Climate Neutral Network
• ISO14001 Spatial Web Application Development : Shell Petroleum, Iceland for LandMat EHF