James A. Bryan
Assistant Vice President
Construction Development and Implementation
Arden Realty, Inc.
James Bryan is responsible for researching, developing, and commissioning all Arden building mechanical systems. This includes implementing corporate strategies for project development to achieve enhanced net operating income (NOI), capital expenditure, and construction projects. Over the course of his career, Mr. Bryan has served on the California Energy Commission; on the Building Energy Efficiency Program, Program Advisory Committee; and the Lighting Research Program, Program Advisory Committee. Prior to joining Arden Realty, Mr. Bryan held the position of Chief Engineer for ABM Engineering, where he oversaw engineering operations for 6.5 million square feet of commercial real estate.

Tav Commins
Mechanical Engineer
California Energy Commission
Mr. Commins has worked at the Energy Commission for 10 years. During this time he has managed the State's Energy Hotline, which answers questions about California's energy code. He also led the incorporation of building commissioning ("Acceptance Requirements") into the 2005 Title 24 Building Standards. Mr. Commins helped start the California Commissioning Collaborative, and set up and ran the Collaborative for two years. He also trains building officials on the state energy codes and conducts complaint investigations on new homes.

Greg Cunningham, AIA
Co-Principal
Enovity, Inc.
Mr. Cunningham has more than 30 years of experience in design and construction focusing on building energy efficiency solutions. He is a member of the Building Commissioning Association (BCA) and a former member of the Professional Advisory Group (PAG) to the California Energy Commission for the development of the Title 24 Standards. Mr. Cunningham is a USGBC LEED Accredited Professional and a member of the American Institute of Architects. He received his B.A. in Architecture from U.C. Berkeley and M.E.P. in Energy Technology from Arizona State University.

Keith Forsman
Supervising Program Manager - Large Commercial and Institutions
Customer Energy Efficiency
Pacific Gas and Electric
Mr. Forsman is a Senior Program Manager in PG&E's Customer Energy Efficiency Department. Keith has 27 years of experience at PG&E and has lead the development and delivery of several energy efficiency incentive programs, including most recently PG&E's Retrocommissioning Program and Automated Benchmarking Service. Previously, Keith has developed applications for pge.com, including Business Tools, Usage History, Compare Bills and Saving Energy and Money self-service analytical tools. In another position at PG&E, Keith was the Power Engineer responsible for the interconnection of most Altamont Pass wind farms, Cal's and C&H Sugar's cogeneration plants and many other privately owned power plants in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. Keith is a licensed Mechanical Engineer and received his Bachelor of Science from Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo.

Don Frey
Principal / Executive Vice President
Architectural Energy Corporation (AEC)
Chair, Advisory Council, California Commissioning Collaborative
Mr. Frey serves as Chairperson of the California Commissioning Collaborative Advisory Council. He has been involved in business management; project management; engineering; and building energy-related research, design, and development for more than 29 years. He is a registered professional engineer in Colorado and Tennessee. In 1982 he co-founded Architectural Energy Corporation, where he is currently Executive Vice President. Mr. Frey's professional career has focused on improving building energy performance. His work has included developing and applying innovative building performance evaluation techniques, participating in product development and assessment projects, and conducting field demonstrations. He is currently working on research and demonstration projects with government organizations, utility companies, and private industry clients.

Richard A. Greco
Principal
California Data Center Design Group
Richard Greco has more than 35 years of experience in the operation and maintenance of electrical and mechanical systems supporting complex technical facilities. He has extensive executive management experience operating business units specializing in post-construction services for mission critical facilities. Mr. Greco is a LEED Accredited Professional and is a member of ASHRAE, IEEE and IFMA. He has served on many standards committees regarding mission critical infrastructures. Additionally, he teaches a University of California Extension class on the operation and maintenance of HVAC systems. He is widely published and a frequent speaker on topics of interest to the mission critical industry, such as the commissioning of new and existing buildings, operations and maintenance risk management, and high-density data centers.

Philip Haves
Building Technologies Department
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Philip Haves is the Leader of the Commercial Building Systems Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He received a B.A. in physics from Oxford University and a Ph.D. in radio astronomy from Manchester University before turning to research in building physics. His current work includes the development of automated fault detection and diagnosis tools for use in building commissioning and performance monitoring and the development of computer simulation tools to support the design of low energy buildings. He is a Fellow of ASHRAE and a former President of the U.S. chapter of the International Building Performance Simulation Association.

Randall Higa, P.E.
Manager, Commercial New Construction
Southern California Gas Company
Mr. Higa has been with Southern California Gas Company (SoCal Gas) for 12 years, working with the residential and commercial building industry to promote energy efficiency. Prior to joining SoCal Gas, he worked for 13 years in engineering and architecture firms designing and managing various commercial and institutional projects, including hospitals, schools, office buildings, retail, labs, and data processing facilities. He is a member of several professional organizations and currently serves on the ASHRAE 90.1 Technical Committee and is a board member of the Collaborative for High Performance Schools. He graduated from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at UCLA and has taken graduate architecture courses in building climatology and energy conservation design. He is registered as a mechanical engineer in California and Nevada.

Ed Jerome
Division Manager, Utility Services
EnerNOC, Inc.
Ed Jerome has more than 16 years of experience developing, quantifying, and managing energy and resource efficiency projects. He is highly skilled in energy management principles, savings quantification, measurement & verification techniques, and implementation strategies for resource conservation projects within commercial, industrial, and agricultural facilities. Mr. Jerome has lead and performed detailed retro-commissioning activities for more than 3.5 million square feet of large commercial and institutional building space. He has performed and/or managed more than 200 preliminary and detailed energy surveys within commercial, industrial, and agricultural facilities and has performed numerous demand response audits for a variety of customer types.

David Jump, Ph.D., P.E.
Director of Engineering
Quantum Energy Services and Technologies, Inc. (QuEST)
Mr. Jump is the Engineering Director for QuEST, a firm specializing in retro-commissioning (RCx) services and programs, measurement and verification (M&V) services, and energy project development and implementation services. He has helped develop and manage technical services for more than $14 million in energy efficiency programs that provide building retro-commissioning services. Mr. Jump's expertise in commercial HVAC and control systems, data acquisition and analysis, fault diagnostic techniques, and building energy analysis has enabled him to write chapters in M&V guidelines, develop guidelines for assessing measurement cost effectiveness, and author several technical papers and presentations. Along with CCC Advisory Board participation, Mr. Jump also serves on the International Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol Technical Committee, and is currently vice president of the Building Commissioning Association's Southwest Chapter.

Michael Lo
Manager, Institutional Partnership Program
Energy Efficiency Division
Southern California Edison
Michael Lo is the Manager of the Institutional Partnership Program portfolio for Southern California Edison's Energy Efficiency Division and has over 10 years of utility experience in project development and management. His responsibilities include management of local and statewide partnership programs to encourage an energy efficiency ethic through education and training strategies and to support energy efficient efforts through incentives for the implementation of energy efficient technologies. He has been instrumental in collaborating with partnership entities to optimize numerous buildings through in-depth retro-commissioning (RCx), monitoring-based commissioning (MBCx) and retrofit activities. Michael has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering and has a Masters of Science Degree in Engineering with an emphasis in Solar Energy Systems and in Solid Mechanics.

Alfred "Tod" McKelvy, Jr.
Executive Director
Berding & Weil LLP
Alfred 'Tod' McKelvy, Jr. has been the Executive Director of Berding & Weil LLP since 1991.Mr. McKelvy chairs the Energy Committee of BOMA California and also serves on the Executive Committee. The BOMA California Board addresses legislative and regulatory matters affecting commercial property throughout the state. Mr. McKelvy earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Puget Sound and Masters in Business Administration from the College of Notre Dame.

Clifford H. Moriyama
Partner
Capitol Dynamics, LLC
Cliff Moriyama is a partner of Capitol Dynamics, LLC. Capitol Dynamics is a full service governmental affairs/public relations strategic planning firm based in Sacramento, California. Mr. Moriyama has more than 17 years of experience in the legislative and regulatory arenas in California and Washington D.C. working for three statewide business associations prior to forming Capitol Dynamics. He has an extensive background on issues ranging from land use, endangered species, energy, water quality and water supply and the environment.

Tony Pierce, P.E.
Senior Engineer
Facility Dynamics Engineering
Tony has over 26 years experience in the design, construction and commissioning of building systems. He joined FDE in 2006 and is located in Southern California. He has previously worked for Southern California Edison Co., principally promoting sustainable building design practices and energy efficiency standards, and HMC Group, an architectural-engineering firm where he was the Director of Mechanical Engineering. Tony's current commissioning projects range from university assembly and teaching facilities, hospitals, public and private office buildings, and hospitality facilities. In addition, he works on control system designs for building energy systems and as an instructor for PG&E's Existing Building Commissioning Workshop.

Chris Scruton
Buildings Program Area Lead
Public Interest Energy Research Program
California Energy Commission
Mr. Scruton has been at the Energy Commission since 2001, where he has focused mostly on HVAC, controls, and building envelope. Prior to this he was "Energy Czar" with Shriners Hospital of Northern California and an application engineer with Johnson Controls. Chris has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from California State University, Sacramento.

Reinhard G. Seidl, P.E.
Principal
Taylor Engineering
Reinhard Seidl started his career in Europe, where he completed a Master's degree in mechanical engineering. He moved to California after four years as a project engineer with a Dutch multinational firm, involved in international contracting in Africa and the Middle East for industrial projects. His experience in the US includes nine years as a project engineer and project manager for a mechanical contractor in the commercial, biotech, and semiconductor sectors. In 2003, he joined the consulting firm Taylor Engineering in Alameda, California, where he is currently a Principal. In recent years, he has focused on controls and commissioning work, is a member of the ASHRAE guideline committee GPC30 for commissioning existing buildings, and has published several articles on commissioning. In collaboration with PG&E, he has helped develop the Universal Translator, a tool for analyzing trend data on commissioning and energy retrofit projects.

Shane Schroeder
Group Manager - Commissioning
Target
Mr. Schroeder currently serves as Target's commissioning group manager and is responsible for defining, implementing and overseeing both the commissioning and demand side energy management programs for Target. These programs focus primarily on enhancing the life cycle performance of Target facilities by optimizing the way energy consuming equipment is designed, installed, operated and maintained. Prior to Target, Mr. Schroeder worked as a consulting engineer helping owners in the institutional, commercial, educational and health care industries define and implement programs related to commissioning, energy efficiency, sustainability and facility support services. Mr. Schroeder has a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, is a registered professional engineer, a LEED Accredited Professional and a NEBB Certified Supervisor for testing, adjusting and balancing of air and hydronic systems.

Mark Walter
Project Manager
Keithly Barber Associates
Mr. Walter started in the HVAC industry in 1973, and has been a project manager for over 25 years. His experience includes an extensive background in Building Automation Systems (BAS), covering all phases of design, installation, programming, graphics, start-up and commissioning. He has managed residential and commercial mechanical projects, lighting and access control projects, and the design of hazardous transportation systems. His specializations include operations and maintenance assessments, and new and existing building commissioning.