Ron Smith
Ron Smith, as a career instructor, has taught astronomy and meteorology for over 34 years in the California Community College system. In addition to college level teaching, Mr. Smith worked as a lecturer at the Griffith Observatory. He also joined the San Francisco State tornado chase team for 3 years during the 1990's. While retired from full time instruction, Mr. Smith continues to enjoy active participation in local community events. He frequently presents scientific programs to the White Mountain Institute, the local public schools, and to the local Audubon and Sierra Club chapters. His diverse academic background has allowed him to also teach speech at Cerro Coso College. He holds two Masters degrees, one in speech and the other in astronomy. As an undergraduate at the University of Southern California, he acquired a minor in climatology. He pursued this interest by auditing 12 units of graduate Meteorology at San Francisco State while writing a lab textbook in weather and climate.
Hank Jackson
Mr. Hank Jackson, owner of ETech Solutions, has over 25 years of experience in college instruction, adult continuing education and technical training, most of which has been spent in the energy conservation/energy management field.. He has been instrumental in developing curriculum and delivering training programs for a variety of topics including HVAC, refrigeration systems, electric motors, boilers, financial analysis and small commercial site surveys. His rare combination of skills as a competent engineer as well as effective communicator has provided him with national recognition as a trainer with the capability to develop the curriculum plan, the content, and the delivery methods that achieve maximum effectiveness.
Martyn Dodd
Having written software used in California for Title 24 energy code compliance for the past 24 years, Mr. Dodd is principal of EnergySoft, a Bay Area company that specializes in performance based energy analysis. He is one of the original authors of the 1992 Nonresidential Alternative Calculation Method (ACM) manual, which defines the rules for code compliance software, and has become the model for both national and international code compliance software procedures.
Mr. Dodd is the author of the EnergyPro, COMPLY 24, and Perform 2005 software programs, which are used extensively throughout California for code compliance. He also wrote the NECB Comply software for the government of Canada, used for performance based code compliance with the Model National Energy Code of Canada.
Greg Sharp
Greg Sharp is a licensed Architect in the state of California since 1980, and a member of the American Institute of Architects and the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America. Greg recently retired from the Edison Company where he served as the staff Architect at Edison's Energy Center (CTAC) for the last eighteen years of his 34-year career. While at CTAC, Greg developed and presented a variety of educational programs on lighting, daylighting, and sustainable building materials and design strategies, and served as an energy advisor to the building design and construction industries. Now in private practice, Greg continues to present lighting focused, energy efficiency seminars for Edison's Energy Centers.
David Wylie
David Wylie is a registered Professional Mechanical Engineer in the State of California. Graduating from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with a degree in mechanical engineering, He also obtained his MBA from National University adding to his ability to analyze energy efficiency investments and opportunities. Dave holds a college teaching credential, and is able to relate sophisticated engineering concepts to the lay person. Several articles written by David Wylie have been published in trade magazines, and Dave has written a book titled “New Refrigerants for Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Systems,” published in 1996. David Wylie, along with two partners, started ASW Engineering Management Consultants, located in Tustin, California. The work experience of this group covers the range of energy engineering including research, development, program design, measurement, feasibility study of electrical/mechanical systems and energy supply for commercial and industrial facilities. ASW Engineering has received awards for innovations in engineering from the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers, Southern California Edison, and California's Governor.
Ted Flanigan
Ted Flanigan is the President of EcoMotion Inc., a Southern California-based energy and environmental consulting firm that fosters sustainable energy development. For the past 25 years, Flanigan has been advocating smart and responsible energy management, working within two major electric utilities – New York Power Authority and the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power – and providing strategic consulting services for utilities, cities, NGOs, and others across the country, and in many foreign countries. He served as the Energy Program Director for Rocky Mountain Institute; then he was funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to research most successful efficiency and green power strategies. As Director of IRT Environment, Flanigan was in the original consulting team for ICLEI’s Urban CO2 Reduction Project, linking and developing strategies, policies, and programs for major North American and European cities from Portland to Helsinki. He was Managing Director of The Energy Coalition, designing and implementing successful and innovative efficiency and demand response partnerships for SCE, PG&E, SCG, and SDG&E. Currently, Flanigan and EcoMotion are implementing Solar Santa Monica, while helping to launch Palm Desert SOLAR, programs that aim to couple efficiency and renewable energy while educating the public for long-term and major transformations.
Rick Phelps
Rick Phelps is the Executive Director for the High Sierra Energy Foundation , a partnership between the Town of Mammoth Lakes and Southern California Edison, whose mission is to promote widespread use of renewable energy resources and increasing energy efficiency through education, planning, promotion and facilitation of demonstration projects and public policies. Rick has spent most of his career promoting and implementing energy efficiency and water conservation projects throughout the United States. Rick has a B. A. in Economics from the University of Texas and an M.B.A. from Harvard University.