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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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