Lessly A. Goudarzi

Founder and Managing Director of OnLocation, Inc., has thirty years of experience in management consulting to industry and government, concentrating during the last fifteen years on financial and investment analysis of the electric utility industry. Mr. Goudarzi regularly contributes to the Department of Energy's ongoing efforts in the analysis of the economic and environmental impacts associated with the electric industry deregulation initiatives of the state(s) and federal government. Mr. Goudarzi played an integral part in the introduction of event driven insurance products for the electric power industry (e.g. generation outage insurance). Over the last twelve years, Mr. Goudarzi has been the economic counsel to the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) restructuring over $7 billion of generating plant debt and involving some of the electric utility industry's largest bankruptcies.

Frances P. Wood

A Director with OnLocation, Ms. Wood has over twenty-four years of consulting experience with government and private clients. She has performed and managed national energy and environmental policy analyses using integrated energy models such as IDEAS, NEMS and POEMS. For over a decade, she has been managed the integrated modeling for R&D benefits analysis using NEMS for the DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. Ms. Wood supported the DOE Policy Office with several analyses of restructured electricity markets, including the National Transmission Grid Study and the Supporting Analysis for the Administration's Comprehensive Electricity Competition Act, as well as price and environmental policy analysis for an Independent Power Producer. Her electric utility experience also includes performing financial analyses for debt workouts pertaining to generation and transmission cooperatives under the RUS programs.

Ms. Wood was Director of Consulting for AES Corporation before joining OnLocation. In that capacity, she managed a multi-year DOE contract providing analytical and modeling analysis support. She managed studies for various clients that focused on the investment criteria and market potential for non-utility generation, energy efficiency options, and integrated resource planning. Ms. Wood has a B. A. from Dartmouth College (cum laude) and a M.S. in Engineering Economic Systems from Stanford University.

Dana K. Griswold

A Senior Consultant with OnLocation, Ms. Griswold has over twenty years experience designing and implementing models and information systems for many types of clients. She supports the international, integrated Markal model SAGE (DOE/EIA) and was the key analyst in the design and implementation of changes made to the SAGE electricity sector. She assisted with the WEPS+ model implementation in Eviews. She supports the (DOE/EIA) U.S. integrated energy model NEMS and was a major contributor in the development of the Policy Office Electricity Modeling System (POEMS). She also was a key contributor to the implementation of the initial NEMS hydrogen model. She has successfully undertaken model conversions from several different platforms (Personal Computer, Mainframe, RISC) and between different versions of models (NEMS to POEMS). She has assisted clients by conducting numerous electricity, energy, and environmental studies. She has a B.A. in International Studies from Dickinson College, a B.S. in Information Systems Management from the University of Maryland, and a M.S. in Technology Management from the American University.

Reginald (Sandy) Sanders

As a Senior Consultant with OnLocation, Mr. Sanders has twenty-five years of experience as an operations research analyst in the energy industry. For EIA, Mr. Sanders has developed models of the environmental and economic impact of alternative emission control technologies required by the Clean Air Act Amendments including EPA's recent Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) and Clean Air Mercury Rule (CAMR). He has developed and implemented models for DOE, EIA and private clients of optimal generation capacity expansion and production costing employing various optimization algorithms. For the RUS in the New Hampshire Electric Cooperative Bankruptcy, Mr. Sanders was a senior participant in a detailed assessment of the potential wholesale power markets in New England. He has extensive experience in project management for complex computer assisted analyses including the development, maintenance, and utilization of large-scale optimization models; design and analysis of model simulations; and development of analysis reports. Mr. Sanders played a central role on Electricity Market Module development team that developed the National Energy Modeling System (NEMS). He is the principal architect of the POEMS modeling framework and TRADELEC(tm)model.

Before coming to OnLocation, Mr. Sanders was responsible for moving the Royal Australian Navy into the vanguard of Logistics Science by the development of an advanced readiness based sparing model. In addition, he has previous work experience with a major electric utility and has conducted policy analysis on the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978, The Power Plant and Industrial Fuel Use Act, The Windfall Profits Tax and the President's Tax Reform Bill. Mr. Sanders holds a B.S. in Mathematics and a M.S. in Management Science from the University of Miami.

S. Lynne Smith

As a Senior Consultant, Ms. Smith has extensive experience in the development and application of complex spreadsheet modeling systems. She has built financial forecasting models of electric G&T, distribution and telecommunications entities. She has been responsible for the financial analysis of a number of cooperative operations for use in debt restructurings. She also contributed to the development of the first quantitatively based portfolio risk management assessment system for the USDA Rural Utility Service broadband and electric programs. Ms. Smith has nearly 25 years of experience in accounting and business administration. She has been the controller for a number of entities including OnLocation. Ms. Smith has a B.B.A. (Magna Cum Laude) in Accounting from the University of Georgia.

John A. Holte

As a Senior Consultant with OnLocation, Mr. Holte has over twenty-seven years of economic analysis and energy modeling experience. He has particular expertise in energy demand analysis. Presently, Mr. Holte is leading projects to incorporate the new CAFE standards and plug-in hybrids in the NEMS transportation model, to estimate forecasting equations for industrial and service sector output for the NEMS macroeconomic model, and to develop a simplified 16-region world energy forecasting system for EIA. Other activities that he has been recently involved with include extensive work with the NEMS transportation model and the other NEMS demand models, efforts to transform the NEMS residential and commercial technology information into a format for use in Markal models, enhancements to the NEMS system components to improve the database capabilities of the reporting and graphics systems, and the programming of an OnLocation proprietary system that captures hourly weather and electricity load data from the internet, makes forecasts, and produces output that is available 24/7 on the internet.

Previously, as a Supervisory Economist with the Energy Information Administration (EIA), Mr. Holte was responsible for the development and implementation of the industrial sector energy model as a component of the National Energy Modeling System (NEMS). He was primarily involved in conducting analysis, modeling and forecasting of energy consumption in the residential, commercial, industrial, and transportation sectors. Mr. Holte has a B.S. in Mathematics and an M.A. in Economics from the University of Maryland.

Sharon B. Showalter

As a Senior Consultant with OnLocation, Ms. Showalter has more than 20 years experience analyzing energy and environmental issues. She has managed national energy and environmental policy analyses using the NEMS integrated energy model. For example, she managed the integrated modeling of energy and environmental benefits for the Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE) using NEMS, as well as evaluated numerous climate change policies for non-governmental clients.

Ms. Showalter also provided energy modeling, environmental, and strategic planning expertise as a Senior Project Manager at the AES Corporation before joining OnLocation. In that capacity, she managed a multi-year DOE consulting contract providing analytical and energy modeling support using the IDEAS energy simulation model. She also produced AES's first public environmental report that included development of the company's first CO2 emissions inventory, as well as writing numerous internal reports related to environmental, strategic, and social responsibility issues facing the company. Ms. Showalter has a B. A. from Dartmouth College (cum laude) and a M.S. in Energy Management and Policy from the University of Pennsylvania.

Nicolaos Kydes

As a Senior Consultant with OnLocation, Mr. Kydes has over 6 years of experience in advanced algorithm research and development, computer and database programming, and data analysis. Recent energy projects include the development and integration of a Hydrogen Market Module for incorporation into the NEMS.

Prior to working at OnLocation, Mr. Kydes managed several advanced research programs in the defense industry. Mr. Kydes has a B.A. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Rutgers University and a Ph.D. in Nonlinear Optimization from George Mason University.

Mark A. Ditmer

As a Consultant with OnLocation, Mr. Ditmer's responsibilities have included determining and calculating inputs for NEMS runs, interpreting and analyzing the results from NEMS runs, and building workbooks that track and allocate CO2 emission allowances on a national scale. Mr. Ditmer has prior experience in the fields of economics and finance since recently graduating from Villanova University. He worked in the finance industry at a fixed income trading desk and working on financial litigation cases involving market timing and late trading. He also has spent time at one of Washington D.C.'s most prestigious think tanks working on macroeconomic labor issues. Mr. Ditmer has a B.S. in Economics and a B.A. in Finance from Villanova University (Magna Cum Laude).