Ian Besson Email & Phone Number

Brisbane City, Qld, Au

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

- Managing renewable resource Consultancy assisting Clients with monitoring campaign design and resource analysis for project viability assessment and to reduce data measurement uncertainties for optimal project financing outcomes.- Business Development and management of the sale and installation of appropriate equipment for effective monitoring campaigns for both wind and solar projects.- Manage the supply, installation and support (including repair) of remote sensing solutions such as Sodar and Lidar for a wide range of leading wind developers in all States of Australia.

- Set up and manage WISE Group of Companies. Merge existing experienced data management and operations team into the WISE Group. - Development of proprietary Renewable Energy data management and quality systems.- Provide site evaluation and feasibility studies to Clients. - Business development to expand client base both in the Asia Pacific and Internationally.- Negotiate sales and support contract for Australian and NZ market with US manufacturer of remote sensing equipment. Train and manage installation and maintenance team for equipment. - Carry out evaluation and feasibility studies of project pipeline in Eastern Europe (Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Poland).

- Providing management, business development and technical and commercial support to Wind Prospect Global’s international consultancy team for pre and post construction renewable energy projects. This included wind resource and energy yield analysis and due diligence on a number of onshore and offshore wind projects around the world.- Management and technical contribution to portfolio evaluation and feasibility and ranking studies for offshore wind project pipeline in Northern Brazil and onshore project pipelines in, Canada and Thailand

Brisbane

- Negotiate JV agreement between Australian Power and Water and leading UK wind farm noise consultants Hayes McKenzie.- Develop quality protocols and train and manage staff to install monitoring equipment and collect and analyse high quality background noise data to assess the potential noise impact of proposed wind farms.- Carry out study into noise emissions from gas power station.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

- Management and development of of renewable energy consultancy team for leading Australian Consultancy. This included development and implementation of Quality systems, supervision and training of wind engineers in wind resource and energy yield analysis and site optimization.- The team provided a full range of technical and commercial services to clients, from site identification through to grid connection and assistance with contract terms for both EPC and multi contract construction contracts.

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

- Project management and provision of technical and commercial services to clients. - Site identification, monitoring campaign design, quality assurance of monitoring installations and wind resource and energy yield analysis.- Owners engineer on 12 MW wind farm.

United Kingdom

Site management. Manage O&M of fleet of 140 turbines within 7 wind farms.