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Marc Schuldt, President. B.S., Aeronautical
Engineering, Purdue University. M.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of
Washington. Mr. Schuldt has more than 24 years of
experience as a project manager and lead engineer for studies of residential,
commercial, and industrial energy use. He currently leads our team responsible
for assisting SCE with the review of applications to the Standard Performance
Contracting program. He also directs another team, which provides program
design assistance and conducts commercial building energy audits for Seattle
City Light. He has been responsible for developing non-residential M&V
protocols for a number of utilities including SCE, PG&E, Seattle City Light
and PacifiCorp. mschuldt@sbwconsulting.com
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Michael Baker, Vice President. B.S., Engineering,
Purdue University. Mr. Baker has more than 22 years
of experience with market and end use technology research applicable to the
residential, commercial, and industrial sectors. For the last three years he
has been the principal investigator responsible for market research, and
program design, planning and implementation for PG&E's Compressed Air
Management Program (CAMP). He was responsible for the development of
monitoring protocols for the California DSM Measurement Advisory Committee and
authored a monograph for EPRI's Center for Electric End-Use Data titled,
"Utility End-Use Metering: Methods and Applications." He has developed methods
for evaluating optimum conservation investments in commercial and residential
buildings, and for the estimation of commercial and residential sector
conservation potential.
mbaker@sbwconsulting.com
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Ben Wildman, Vice President. B.S., Chemical
Engineering, University of Colorado. Mr. Wildman is a Professional Engineer in
Civil Engineering and a certified Level IV wastewater treatment plant
operator, both in the State of Washington. Mr. Wildman has a broad range of
experience in the wastewater treatment industry including operation of
municipal wastewater treatment plants; pilot testing wastewater treatment
processes; working with regulatory agencies to establish effluent permit
requirements; design of wastewater treatment facilities; and energy use and
efficiency improvement analysis. Mr. Wildman has been responsible for design,
implementation and/or evaluation of several pilot tests of wastewater
treatment processes. Currently, Mr. Wildman is the project manager and lead
engineer for an energy benchmarking study of secondary treatment and UV
disinfection processes at various municipal wastewater treatment plants.
bwildman@sbwconsulting.com
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Jeffrey Romberger, Senior Mechanical Engineer.
B.S. Agricultural Engineering, Washington State University. M.S. Engineering,
Washington State University. Professional Engineer, Mechanical and
Agricultural Engineering, State of Washington. Mr. Romberger has more than 17
years of experience with energy conservation research in the commercial,
industrial and multi-family sectors. Mr. Romberger was a lead engineer
responsible for the analysis of industrial process measures in our evaluation
of the National Grid 1998/99 industrial programs. He is also our lead engineer
supporting PacifiCorp’s commercial and industrial audit program. He is
currently our lead engineer supporting Seattle City Light’s commercial audit
program and has performed audits for many of the largest buildings in the
Seattle central business district. In his industrial studies, he has been
responsible for evaluating projects such as: variable speed drives at a steel
manufacturing plant, ultraviolet curing and a regenerative thermal oxidizer at
an aluminum can plant, insulation on plastic bag extruders, yeast production
air blower controls, variable frequency drives on process chillers and a
variety of efficiency improvements to grocery refrigeration and industrial
process chiller systems.
jromberger@sbwconsulting.com
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Lynn Qualmann, Senior Project Engineer. B.S.
Engineering, Humboldt State University. Professional Engineer, Mechanical
Engineering, State of Washington. Mr. Qualmann has specialized in energy
efficiency analysis for more than 18 years, during which time he has completed
site-specific energy analyses for more than 100 commercial and industrial
facilities. Mr. Qualmann possesses extensive experience evaluating energy use
in compressed air systems. In addition to completing CAC Level 1 & 2 Training,
he played a key role in developing the latest version of AIRMaster+ analysis
software. He has developed numerous simulation models using this software in
the course of evaluating over a dozen large compressed air systems. He has
conducted evaluations of: kiln modifications for clay pipe and brick
manufacturing, rock crushing system improvements at a mining facility,
pump-off controllers and cycle-timers on oil well pumps, steam injection
system improvements for oil field production, variable speed drives on plastic
injection molding machines, and several process boiler improvements including
stack gas and condensate heat recovery systems. He is currently one of our
lead engineers responsible for industrial audits under the PacifiCorp Energy
FinAnswer program.
rlq@sbwconsulting.com
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Bing Tso, Mechanical Engineer.
B.S., Mechanical Engineering,
Stanford University, 1986. Professional Engineer, Mechanical Engineering,
State of Washington. Mr. Tso has more than 15 years’ experience as a project
engineer and manager working in a wide range of capacities on resource
efficiency programs. He has performed dozens of energy and water efficiency
studies of complex commercial and industrial facilities for Seattle City
Light, PacifiCorp, and others. In recent years, Mr. Tso played key roles in
establishing successful industrial compressed air audit and dishwashing spray
head direct install programs. In addition, he has extensive program
evaluation experience, serving as a lead engineer on commercial/ industrial
evaluations for PG&E, National Grid USA, Seattle Public Utilities, and the
California Public Utilities Commission. These evaluations covered a wide
range of technologies, including building HVAC, compressed air, and pumping
and VSDs, and assorted water conservation approaches. Mr. Tso has performed
economic analyses of overall cost-effectiveness of building commissioning
projects for the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance, Oregon Office of
Energy, and Idaho Department of Water Resources. He has also studied the
costs and benefits of green building certification for the City of Seattle.
btso@sbwconsulting.com
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Patricia Goudge, Mechanical Engineer.
B.S., Mechanical Engineering,
University of Washington. Professional Engineer, Mechanical Engineering, State
of California. During Ms. Goudge’s 16 years practicing as a mechanical
engineer, she has performed testing, research, analysis and design work. Ms.
Goudge is a Qualified AirMaster+ Specialist and has completed the Compressed
Air Challenge Advanced Management of Compressed Air Systems course. She is
currently involved with performance assessments of compressed-air systems for
PG&E. This work includes site surveys to install energy consumption
measurement equipment, data review and analysis, development of energy
conservation strategies, presentation of the results in a report and
verification of energy savings following implementation. Ms. Goudge has HVAC
design experience, including Energy Code analysis. She recently attended a
training session for Low Energy, Sustainable Building Design. She has
experience with testing and start-up at power plants, including nuclear,
pumped storage hydro, and ocean thermal energy conversion. pgoudge@sbwconsulting.com
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Robert Blue, J.D.,
LL.M., Program Manager. Mr. Blue graduated summa cum laude from Vermont
Law School with an LL.M. in Environmental Law and is a member of the
Washington State Bar. He has over 12 years of sales and marketing experience
in the environmental services arena. He currently is leading an “Efficient
Spray Head” installation program effort where over 5,600 high-efficiency
spray heads have been installed in food service establishments throughout
the Puget Sound area. He is also leading the recruitment efforts for the
Compressed Air Management Program (CAMP) that recommends practical and
cost-effective energy efficiency measures for industrial plants. He recently
developed and directed the sales efforts for a program that provides
business owners and facility managers with solutions that improve the
financial and environmental performance of their buildings. Mr. Blue spent
over a decade working in the recycling industry. He owned and operated a
full-service retail and commercial recycling center, collecting and
marketing a wide range of recycled materials. He also worked for a large
national recycling company, managing two corporate divisions’ recycling
sales services. His efforts resulted in an award-winning community recycling
program with over a 93 percent participation rate. Mr. Blue has worked as a
consultant, conducting employee sales training programs and also worked as a
financial sales representative for a large national brokerage firm.
rblue@sbwconsulting.com
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Shefali Modi,
Architect. LEED AP, M.S.Arch., Building and Environmental Technology,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2002; B.Arch., University of Mumbai,
India, 2001. Ms. Modi has over 3 years of experience as a project manager
and energy analyst for various architectural and resource conservation
projects. She has co-managed several energy conservation programs offered to
multifamily, schools and retail facilities. These programs covered a wide
range of technologies, including building HVAC, hot water supply, envelope
treatment, photovoltaic installation and site cogeneration. During these
programs she has conducted numerous plan checks and site inspections. Ms.
Modi also has extensive experience in market research and program evaluation
studies, serving as a lead analyst on projects for the California Energy
Commission, SMUD, SCE, SDG&E and PG&E. In addition Ms. Modi has worked on
several marketing initiatives to educate professionals about available
energy and water conservation technologies or programs. Recently, Ms. Modi
started working on energy conservation opportunities in hot water and steam
boilers for large commercial and industrial facilities.
smodi@sbwconsulting.com
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Randy Birk, Senior Technician. Mr. Birk's primary
areas of interest and expertise are the collection and analysis of end use
metering and building/system characteristics data. Mr. Birk has played the key
role of administrative reviewer in SBW support for of the SCE SPC program over
the past three years. The administrative reviewer receives materials from the
SCE project managers, distributes these materials to the appropriate technical
reviewer, tracks the schedule milestones, coordinates site inspector
activities and examines the forms that are submitted by the sponsor. Mr. Birk
has also been the technical reviewer for lighting projects. In SBW’s work for
PG&E under the SPC program, Mr. Birk has assisted project sponsors by
collecting data needed to complete lighting applications. He has conducted
end-use metering or on-site data collection efforts for more than 200
commercial and industrial facilities in California and the Pacific Northwest.
rbirk@sbwconsulting.com
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