Personal Profile

• Senior consultant, training division, NIFES Consulting Group (1)
• Director (part-time) of Degree Days Direct Ltd
• Over 10 years' experience as an independent energy management specialist
• Previous experience includes:
  • Energy team leader in local government
  • Research engineer in electricity industry
  • Education officer and deputy secretary, Institute of Energy (2)
• Graduate chartered engineer
• Specialist in low-cost and no-cost energy saving techniques including targeting-and-monitoring schemes and staff training
• Formerly ran the AWA energy and water benchmarking study groups
• Developed the concept of 'waste avoidance' as a tool for cost reduction and environmental management
• Author of various computer software packages for energy management
• Council member, Energy Services and Technologies Association
• Former council member of the Institute of Energy (2)
• Coordinator of the Energy Institute's special interest group on monitoring and targeting
• Member of CEN task force developing international standard on energy management systems
• Author of Managing energy with a desk-top computer (Energy publications, 1985)
• Contributor to the specialist press, speaker at public energy management seminars, and organiser of training courses
• Former editor of the Eclipse Group's quarterly FM Focus: Cost Control