Critical Services Microgrid Group

Convenor of Critical Services Microgrid professional and student network. 

Our aim is to create demand for 3x+ energy efficiency, beneficial electrification, flexible demand response systems; integrating distributed renewable energy generation and storage, and behind the meter Microgrid management hardware and software.

Co-founder, Convenor

MountainScape Information Systems, Inc.

Experienced agile project manager, troubleshooter and problem solver, preventive solutions provider, and trusted advisor to many private and non-profit enterprises. 

Whole systems thinker.  Economical designer, installer, and administrator of integrated business productivity systems. Owner of life-cycle systems management services company. 

Scalable systems integrator of convergent IT, beneficial electrification of buildings and vehicles, flexible, managed demand response systems, and behind the meter Microgrids.

Providing engineering and systems administration, security, data backup, and disaster prevention; integrating communications (web, email, IP telephony, etc), document creation and management, scheduling, case management, accounting, and scanning and printing; using hardware and software from various vendors on mostly Microsoft operating systems.

System design, integration, administration, upgrades, and staff support for legal, manufacturing, and non-profit enterprises.

Systems Integrator

SysAdmin Services, Inc.

Design, implementation, management, and administration of smart, efficient, evolving business information systems for small businesses and professional offices serving Western North Carolina communities. Managing my employees and customer relations, client data systems and their investments in continuous improvements for over 15 years.

Systems Engineer/Owner

Business Information Technology Consultant

IT Consultant

Horizon Fund Management Co.

Export-Import to Rostov-on-Don region of Russian Federation

President

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

European History, Eastern European History
"The peaceful atom and Soviet power: nuclear technology and Soviet legitimacy in the early post-Stalin era, 1954-1956" Masters Thesis, 1992
Teaching Assistant: "European History 1689-;" "Eastern European History, 1815-."

Graduate Student/ Teaching Assistant

Nuclear Control Institute

Researched and wrote policy proposal, and executive summary, submitted to White House Chief of Staff and Soviet Embassy in Washington, DC taken up for consideration at June 1990 Bush-Gobachev Presidential Summit, advocating US-Soviet scientific cooperation on environmental cleanup, nuclear waste management, and economic conversion of nuclear weapons production facilities at Hanford, WA and Kyshtym, RSFSR.

Research Consultant and Writer

Journal: Problems of Communism, US Information Agency

"Economic Conversion in the USSR: It's Role in Perestroika" January 1991 issue, Problems of Communism, with William H. Kincade, Ph.d, Professor at American University School of International Service.

Author, researcher 

UNC Asheville

Graduated with honors in History and as a University Scholar. Honors thesis produced as undergraduate research published in the UNC Asheville Journal of Undergraduate Research and the Journal of the National Conference of Undergraduate Research. "The Role of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster as a Catalyst for Soviet Restructuring."

Undergraduate student

Self-employed

Worked in construction and renovation of buildings with an emphasis on energy efficient and renewable energy systems. Solar greenhouse construction, window and door replacement and installation, solar thermal installation, weatherization, and finish carpentry.

Carpenter, aluminum fabricator, and glazier

Providing technology leadership to dozens of commercial and not-for-profit businesses in the Asheville area for the past twenty-nine years.

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