Richard Gleason PV Solar CTO, CPCM

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Nor Cal Solar Inc.

Providing complete Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Project Design and Development, System Sales, Installation and Service.

Project Development and Program Management services of Federal, State, and Utility incentives and Rebates. Permit acquisition, Design Reviews and Inspections, from Planning and Course of Construction, to Project Closeout. Also offering Lease Financing and Power Purchase Agreement Installations.

Valid California Consulting Corp. specializing in Start-up Consultation and Administration, for owners and principals wishing to get their Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy companies into Production, quickly, efficiently and profitably.

“Bringing understanding to your project through a combination of approach, organization, and relevant experience.”

Richard Gleason 348 E. 49th St, 4F New York, NY 10017 916-***-****

2001–present Nor Cal Solar Inc. Auburn CA

Consultant, CTO, CPCM

Consultant, and Company RMO with management responsibilities of: Project Preliminaries, Planning, Estimating, RFP, Procurement and Installation Contracts, Logistics, Site Management and Supervision. Development of Operational Checklists for Construction Progress, Scheduling, Payment Invoices and Verification Approvals, Changes to the Work, Manpower, Materials, Facility and Insurance Requirements, Metering, Monitoring, and System O&M.

Commercial, Industrial, Residential, Photovoltaic Systems

Certified Professional Contracts Manager

Authorized Conergy Dealer

Authorized Sol-Gen Dealer

CEC, CPUC registered Dealer and Installer

CEC and CPUC Rebate and Incentive Administraton

Installation of more than 6.4 MW’s of Commercial and Industrial Solar Power Systems to date

Recent Clients, and Duties performed as PV Systems Consultant:

2009-2011 Safari Energy LLC New York NY

CTO, CPCM

Lead Project Development Duties- Specializing in PV systems usually a Mega Watt and greater, for REITs client portfolio’s including Regional Shopping Malls, Office Parks, and Universities. Oversight and Management of all support staff engaged in System Planning, Drafting, Engineering, Effective Permit Acquisition, Equipment Procurement, RFP and Installation Contract Administration, AHJ Inspections, State and Federal Incentives, and SREC administration. Organization and Implementation of system Metering, Monitoring, O&M and Warranty Department functions for on grid, online, client PV systems.

Bergen Town Center Regional Mall, Paramus NJ: 1- MW system for Vornado Realty Trust.

Center Pointe and Florham Park Business Parks: 2- 400 kW combined output systems for Olympus Power LLC.

Wesleyan University, Middletown CT: 2- PV systems, for a combined 203 kW output.

System Design- Specify System Components and Sizing, Determine Client Meter loads and consumption, Optimize PV power distribution to Client Meters, Optimize System Output and Long Term Power Production, complete financial ROI Analysis included.

25 year financial ROI, system life production and REC projections, developed into an easily understandable form for owners and principals.

Plans and Engineering: Structural- Racking design, low profile single row, ground mount, parking canopy, pole mount, trackers, ready for final engineering.

Parking Canopy solar designs developed were welcomed by retail REIT clients such as Vornado, Federal, and General Growth Partners, to be effective and attractive means of increased PV system size, additionally allowing them advantages of “Green Marketing”.

Plans and Engineering: Electrical - Equipment specification of PV Modules, Inverters, Combiners and Recombiners, Disconnects, Wiring Harnesses, Distribution and Subpanels, Production Meters and Monitoring, . Line diagrams and calc’s. Incoming AIC, line or load side taps, series rated subpanels and breakers, wire and conduit calc’s, string mapping. All equipment cut-sheets. Ready for EE stamp.

Bergen Town Center Regional Mall- Developed this PV system using MIR, RPR, and SCADA/PLC custom relay functions and panels, to essentially dynamically control inverters on the regional mall spot network, so as not to feedback to the utility and damage transformer network protectors. Without this control system, which is a few years ahead of its time, the mall would not have been allowed to connect to the available PSE&G network utility grid.

Permit Acquisition- AHJ counter checks, appointment checks, expedites, walk through.

Advanced knowledge of above building dept. protocols and procedures resulted in reducing dept review time to permit issue, from several weeks to several days on average.

Quickly initiated a Back Log of Approved Permits, ready for Production

Project Management- Pre-site survey, facility and manpower requirements, logistics, scheduling and coordination. Organization and Implementation of Construction Schedules, Microsoft Project. Complete Project Status Reports. Identify Site conditions and improvements needed as extras to the project. Supervision of Project/Construction Managers, Site Foremen, & Crew Chiefs.

Training the Crew Chiefs in advanced racking and array layout resulted in the decrease of average installation time for slip sheeting, racking and ballast, wiring harnesses, and modules for a typical 500 kW solar project from 35 days to 20.

Cost analysis/Procurement- RFP and contracts, sub and vendor. Supervision of Purchase Orders, Expense Approvals, Contract Bidding, Evaluation and Award, Installation Project Schedules, and Deliveries by Vendors.

Development of Excel Material Take-Off Spreadsheets, for estimating Structural and Electrical material orders resulted in faster turnaround with vendors.

Development of Operational Checklists streamlining Construction Progress.

Utility Interconnections- Metering/Monitoring PSE&G, JCP&L, Satec and Veris Meters, Deck Monitoring- Supervision and Analysis, Troubleshooting, O&M.

Interface with AHJ’s- SREC’s Township of Paramus and Boro of Florham Park NJ; Dept’s of Building and Safety, Fire Dept’s and all inspections. New Jersey Clean Energy Program, Bureau of Public Utilities, PJM-GATS System.

2007-2009 Lite Solar, LLC Long Beach CA

Director of Installations, CPCM

Lead Project Development Duties- Supervision and management of all support staff engaged in System Planning, Drafting, Engineering, and effective Permit Acquisition.

System Design- Specify System Sizing, System Output and Long Term Power Production, complete financial ROI Analysis included.

Plans and Engineering: Structural- Racking design, low profile (ground mount), canopy, pole mount, trackers, ready for PE stamp.

Overhead PV Canopy design developed was welcomed by LAFD as more accessible for fire men than typical low profile roof mount racking, gaining expedite status at Fire review.

Plans and Engineering: Electrical - Equipment specification of inverters, combiners, disconnects subpanels, switches and meters. Line diagrams and calc’s. Incoming AIC, line or load side taps, series rated subpanels and breakers, wire and conduit calc’s, string mapping. All equipment cut-sheets. Ready for EE stamp and C-10 signature.

Permit Acquisition- AHJ counter checks, appointment checks, expedites, walk through.

Project Management- Pre-site survey, facility and manpower requirements, logistics, scheduling and coordination. Organization and Implementation of Construction Schedules, Microsoft Project. Complete Project Status Reports. Identify Site improvements needed as extras to the project. Supervision of Project/Construction Managers, Site Foremen, & Crew Chiefs.

Cost analysis/Procurement- RFP and contracts, sub and vendor. Supervision of Purchase Orders, Expense Approvals, Bidding, Schedule and Deliveries by Vendors.

Subcontracts and RFP’s- Labor installation and vendors, supply chain setup, subcontracts admin, payment approvals.

Utility Interconnections- Los Angeles Dept. of Water and Power, CEC and CPUC Rebates and Incentives

Interface with AHJ’s- Los Angeles Dept of Building and Safety. Los Angeles Dept. of Water and Power, Los Angeles Fire Dept. and all inspections. CEC and CPUC Rebate and Incentive Admin.

2004-2007 NCS Inc. – Continuing Operations as Consultant and RMO, with several commercial and residential projects involving all the duties as described above and below.

2000-2004 Pacific Power Management Auburn CA

Vice President of Operations, CPCM

Responsible for same as above with Lite Solar, and in addition:

Consultation with owners- Rebates, Incentives, Fed tax credits, Power Purchase Agreements, Lease Financing, PGE, SMUD Interconnections, Complete Financial ROI.

Permit Acquisition- County and City Planning Depts., Design Reviews, Public Hearings in more than 100 Solar Projects over Northern and Southern CA. including,

Auburn, Davis, Chico, Sebastopol, Citrus Heights, Vacaville, San Luis Obispo, San Rafael, Freemont, South SF, Willits, Los Angeles, City of Sacramento, Sacramento County, City of West Sacramento, Jackson, Marysville, and more.

Project Management- Structural and Electrical Design, Plans and drafting. Project Cost

Projections, Systems 15 kW to 520 kW.

Tripled Photovoltaic Project Development and Installations over 4 years, in a start-up company.

Organized, supervised, and implemented complete Production Department operations for Solar Power systems on 90 Flyers gas stations in Northern California.

Developed Operations techniques and processes, increasing Production Department earnings in large scale commercial and industrial installations.

The following documents highlights from pre-solar career in General Construction.

1993-2000 Pacific Contracting Auburn CA

General Contractor

Owner and General Contractor, specializing in Commercial Construction, Tenant Improvements, and high end residential custom homes, $1 M plus.

1990–1993 Panatoni Development Sacramento CA Project Manager

At this time, acting as Project manager and in-house subcontractor for projects that included the turnkey construction of Blue Cross insurance offices in Woodland CA, the Pacific Manufacturing plant, also in Woodland CA, as well as the beautiful 400 University Ave. legal offices conversion in Sacramento CA.

1982-1989 Perini Land and Development Homewood CA

Project Superintendent

Construction of a variety of projects that were built in succession with the Hager-Gassiot Inc. projects listed below. These included four phases of Chamber’s Landing condo’s and wharf in Lake Tahoe CA, and Wally’s Hot Springs Resort and Convention Center in Genoa NV.

1980-1985 Hager-Gassiot Inc. Olympic Valley CA

Project Superintendent

Directed large scale crew operations of the extensive Squaw Valley Olympic Plaza renovations,

S Squaw Valley Hotel, Gold Coast Restaurant, and the Northstar Ski Lodge all in the Sierras of Northern CA.

1978-1980 Scott Vivian Construction Redondo Beach CA

SSite Foreman

Journeyman Crew Chief for Commercial TI, and Custom Homes in LA South bay area.

Education 2003-2005 Villanova University Continuing Studies

Master’s Certification in Government Contracting

Master’s Certification in Commercial Contracting

Certified Professional Contracts Manager

1973–1977 Long Beach State University

Engineering and Industrial Management, BS

Surveying

Computer Skills

Licenses and Certificates

References

Microsoft Project

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

AutoCAD 11,12

Photoshop

Class B General Contractor, California, 1978-present

Master’s Certification in both Government and Commercial Contracting, Villanova University, Continuing Studies, 2003-2005

Safari Energy, LLC.

As Consultant, CTO and (and earlier, EVP Project Development), CPCM

989 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10018

Matthew Rudey- CEO

212-***-****

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Vornado Realty Trust

As Consultant, CTO, CPCM

One Post Office Square, Suite 3150, Boston MA 02109

Russell DeMartino- VP -Development

617-***-****

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Olympus Power LLC Lite Solar, LLC.

As Consultant, CTO, CPCM As Consultant and Director of Installations, CPCM

67 Park Place East 3711 Long Beach Blvd. Suite 900, Long Beach CA 90807

Dennis O’Donnell –VP Asset Management Ollie McKinney- Operations Manager

973-***-**** 562-***-**** X 216

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