Resume Ken Wilson

September *, ****

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Boulder, CO 80302

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abqbvg@r.postjobfree.com

Work Experience

**** - *******: TransGrid Consulting. Consulting with local smart grid firms such as

Power Tagging and Spirae on business development, policy issues and grant proposals.

2010 - present: New Energy Development, LLC. Consulting work on Community Solar

Gardens for various clients, including The City of Golden and Prairie Star (greenfield

energy efficient development in Berthoud)

2005 2009: University of Colorado, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology -

research associate and graduate student, specializing in the ecology of microorganisms in

mountain ecosystems and the impact of climate change.

1998 2007: Engineering consultant. Expert witness in telecommunications,

specializing in network architecture, internet connectivity, and other technical aspects of

local and long distance networks. Represented utilities in more than 100 hearings and

technical workshops (list of cases available on request).

1980 1998: AT&T Bell Labs: Systems engineer specializing in network architecture,

network performance, business plan development, asset management and contract

negotiations. I managed professional groups at Bell Labs and AT&T from 1984 through

1998, rising to the level of Regional Director.

1977 1980: Engineering management at two small companies.

Elected and Appointed Positions

Deputy Mayor, City of Boulder 2009 - Present

Boulder City Council 2007 Present

Urban Drainage and Flood Control District Board 2009 Present

Colorado Renewable Energy Society Policy Committee 2010 - Present

Boulder Water Resources Advisory Board 2002 2007

Education

MS Electrical Engineering University of Illinois 1974

BS Electrical Engineering Oklahoma State University 1972

MA Biology University of Colorado all but dissertation 2010

Recent Experience in Conservation and Renewable Energy

Community Solar Garden Legislation: I testified in favor of Community

Solar Gardens at the State House of Representatives and the State Senate, helping

to get a favorable bill that permits Solar Gardens throughout Xcel s service area.

I have worked at the Public Utilities Commission for good rules that will foster

Solar Gardens. I have provided consulting for the City of Golden on Solar

Gardens and for other clients who want to build them in the coming years.

Rocky Mountain Secure Smart Grid Initiative I worked with Colorado State

University and Spirae (Ft. Collins Smart Grid Company) on a very large proposal

to the Department of Energy. I was the project manager for this proposal. The

proposal would have implemented smart grid demonstration projects in Boulder

and other cities on solar energy, electric vehicles, and smart grid security.

Regional work on Renewable Energy I am a member of the Policy Committee

for the Colorado Renewable Energy Society (CRES). This organization promotes

renewable energy throughout Colorado. The Policy Committee works with State

Legislators on bills that will facilitate more renewable energy.

Smart Regulations I negotiated with the leadership of the Boulder Area

Realtor s Association to make the new Smart Regs an ordinance that members

could support and help implement. This program has been very successful in the

first six months of implementation.

San Luis Valley Solar Project I consulted on a 100 MW Concentrating Solar

Thermal power station for the San Luis Valley Development Resource Group:

2006 2008.

Solar MET Station for San Luis Valley: I was instrumental in getting GEO to

fund and NREL to install and monitor a solar MET Station near Alamosa,

Colorado in June 2008 (Sun Spot One).

Climate Change Research: I have conducted research on climate change impacts

on mountain ecosystems, with an emphasis on carbon cycling under the snowpack

by cold growing fungi: 2005 - 2009

Water resources: As a former member of Boulder s Water Resources Advisory

Board, Board Chair, and now council member, I participated in Boulder s Source

Water Master Plan study and other water resource issues. I was the primary

instigator for Boulder s adaptation of a water budget rate structure, which gives

new control and incentives for water conservation. I am currently a member of

the Board of Directors of the Urban Drainage and Flood Control District.

Boulder County Consortium of Cities Sustainable Energy Plan I represented

the City of Boulder on a county wide project for energy conservation,

transportation and renewables.

Biographical Information

I have been married for 34 years to Priscilla Corielle. Our two children are G. Willow

Wilson (author) and Meredith Wilson (Research Associate at Virginia Tech.). My family

and I have lived in Colorado for 16 years after living in New Jersey for 18 years (Ken

with Bell Labs and Priscilla with Merrill Lynch). I have been coming to Colorado since I

was a child to camp and backpack. I have deep roots in Colorado, stretching back to a

prospector in the Carbondale area in the 1880s and great great uncles who were

blacksmiths in Carbondale dating from the 1920s.

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