Kenneth Allen Halvorsen, MCM, NABCEP, CA Contractors License

Chief Executive Officer, President

Kenneth has nearly 30 years of energy industry construction experience. His talents extend to managing construction services on a variety of major capital and wind farm development projects. He has managed multiple teams and crews, and is widely recognized as providing the highest quality of work; on-time and within budget.

Advanced Development Services, Inc.'s performance is truly enhanced by Kenneth unique knowledge of construction techniques and site conditions. This knowledge is critical in estimating the potential development costs and difficulties associated with a proposed wind farm project, allowing the company to provide expertise and focus only on those sites which will return the highest value to the developer.

 

Sergio Lopez, Head of Construction Management

Mr. Lopez has eighteen years of civil engineering and construction project management experience in wind energy applications and related engineering fields. His experience includes: power performance and loads measurement, acoustic noise measurement, aero-elastic simulation for loads and turbine performance prediction, and component design. ). Mr. Lopez has extensive field service, installation, troubleshooting, and testing experience on wind equipment. He has conducted training courses on the installation of wind monitoring equipment and served as the field test engineer for a number of power curve and acoustic tests on wind turbines. He has conducted component design studies, economic analyses, wind resource analyses, site assessment, feasibility studies, component failure analysis and Failure Modes and Effect Analysis (FMEAMr). Mr. Lopez holds a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the Michigan State University.

 

Rance Sanders, MBA, Program Manager

Mr. Sanders has over 28 years of experience in the design, testing, and installation of wind energy systems. He has been engineering and analyzing multiple projects and led multiple site installations schedules simultaneously. His core values are in design and test programs, feasibility and economic analyses, wind resource assessment projects, research studies, and training programs. In addition to his technical skills, he is experienced with the financial and institutional considerations of wind projects and has served as an expert witness in arbitrations and litigations. His clients include financial institutions, turbine manufacturers, investors, utilities, insurance companies, law firms, and government agencies. In 1997, Mr. Sanders received the AWEA award for technical excellence. Mr. Sanders holds a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA in Finance and International Business.

 

Jennifer Reed, M.S., Equipment Procurement Director, Estimator

Ms. Reed has over 20 years of experience with wind energy technology and other renewable energy applications. Her work includes: technical due diligence, site selection, feasibility studies, financial and economic analysis, bid preparation and evaluation, project development, policy evaluations, training, testing, construction oversight, performance evaluation, and all necessary equipment procurement. Ms. Reed has conducted wind energy work for projects and programs throughout the U.S. Ms. Reed holds an M.S. in Energy Systems Engineering from the University of Arizona and a B.S. in Mathematics from New York State University.

 

Mike Paterson , P.E., MBA, Head of Business Development

Mr. Paterson has over 15 years of experience with engineering consulting, and seven years of experience in the wind energy industry. His work has focused on technical and economic assessments related to facility and system improvements, facility siting and permitting, and evaluations of alternative solutions. Mr. Paterson has participated at a variety of levels in independent engineering evaluations for potential investors, for a number of facilities. His experience with wind energy development includes technical, economic and financial analyses of proposed wind energy and power storage projects to support site selection, permitting, utility interconnection, power sales, financing, equipment procurement, and operation. Mr. Paterson holds a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from State University of Utah and an MBA from UCLA.

 

Randy Hill, Senior Technical Analyst

Mr. Hill has ten years of experience in professional consulting, statistical analysis, computer model development, regulatory compliance, and project management. His responsibilities at Advanced Development Services, Inc. include analysis and reporting of performance data, planning and conduct of turbine performance tests, and development of systems for evaluation of turbine data. Mr. Hill is also experienced with spatial analysis of data using geographic information systems, dispersion modeling, development of Internet-based information management systems, and risk analyses. He has conducted wind flow modeling, energy projections, site optimization studies, visualization, and wake estimations on a number of wind projects and he is familiar with several different commercially available software programs for wind modeling activities. His past work has included an investigation of the operational impacts of wind energy projects on utility grids, analyses of nighttime wind shear values at Midwest project sites, development of methods for using nacelle anemometers to verify performance of wind turbines, technical and financial review of bids for proposed wind projects, and statistical analysis of operations and maintenance data for wind energy facilities to forecast future component failures and associated repair expenditures. Mr. Hill has also presented the results of research at several wind industry conferences.

 

Chris Herreras, Consulting Services Director

Mr. Herreras is a registered Professional Engineer with over 13 years of professional consulting, project management, and engineering experience in the wind energy and environmental industries. He has served as an independent engineer for several wind project investors and conducted feasibility analyses and wind energy siting activities in the U.S. and abroad. His recent work includes evaluation of over 200 DoD (Department of Defense) properties for possible wind energy development potential including performance of 23 site assessments and selection of met tower monitoring locations. He has worked on evaluation of wind energy development potential in a variety of environments and locations including Europe, Australia and U.S. offshore resources. In support of project investors and lending institutes, he has authored numerous publications on wind energy technology and applications, and is frequently asked to speak at technical meetings, training courses and conferences. Mr. Herreras has performed construction monitoring, turbine inspections, test verification, and project completion evaluations. As an independent consultant he also monitors and evaluates project operations at a four completed wind projects totaling 105MW, including preparation of monthly analysis and status reports. Mr. Herreras has presented papers and research findings at U.S. and international conferences and workshops. He holds a B.S. degree in Geotechnical Engineering from the State University of New Jersey.