Dr. Mortensen is Vice President of Nexight Group, a technical and management consulting firm specializing in strategic planning, partnership development, analysis, measurement, and technical communication services to clients in government and industry. He leads the firm’s consulting practice in measurement and evaluation.

Dr. Mortensen led a division that delivered measurement, evaluation, strategic planning, roadmapping, policy analysis, program analysis, and communications services to a diverse set of public and private sector clients. He specialized in measurement, analysis, and evaluation services, and helped build client measurement capacity by providing measurement training, consulting, guidelines, case studies, and standard operating procedures. He has also helped clients develop logic models and identify performance measures. In addition, he led his team in the development of an information system to track performance across a multibillion dollar program with numerous reporting requirements, and conducted 50 verification and validation assessments that resulted in improved data quality across three government agencies. Dr. Mortensen’s clients included the U.S. Department of Energy, the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the National Institute for Standards and Technology, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the Institute for Industrial Productivity, and the Ohio Soybean Council.

Dr. Mortensen provided measurement consulting services to DOE and DHS, including organizing metrics workshops for owners and operators in the Chemical and Oil & Natural Gas Sectors, resulting in a set of metrics demonstrating the sector security from the owner/operator perspective. He developed guidance on developing measures for 18 critical infrastructure and key resources sectors, and created a portfolio analysis tool that enabled a private sector client to produce dozens of tailored views of portfolio data. In addition, Dr. Mortensen managed the impact and risk analysis of $60 million worth of projects for DOE’s Industrial Technologies Program.

Dr. Mortensen assisted DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in developing guidance for measuring the performance and estimating the benefits of EERE programs, and served as the primary editor of EERE’s projected benefits report for FY2005. Working with the Industrial Materials for the Future (IMF) program, he estimated projected program benefits and identified performance measures that link IMF program activities to those benefits, resulting in more defensible benefit estimates. He also analyzed the logic of Aluminum and Metal Casting Programs, resulting in performance measures that link program activities to projected benefits. He developed ITP’s impact projection model that is used to estimate projected program benefits. In addition, Dr. Mortensen conducted a performance measures workshop for DOE’s Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, resulting in program logic models and program area metrics.

Dr. Mortensen assisted EERE with program benefits analysis and development of performance measures, and developed annual guidance for estimating the projected benefits of EERE’s programs. He also coordinated the integrated analysis and external review of program benefit estimates, and worked closely with programs to improve their performance measures. Estimated benefits and performance measures were used by EERE in budget development, in defending programs before Congress, and in meeting the provisions of the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993. Dr. Mortensen also analyzed factors associated with photovoltaic (PV) system costs and authored one of the few published reports containing actual data on PV system costs.

Dr. Mortensen assisted EERE with developing performance measures, and helped conduct performance measurement workshops for EERE program managers. He reviewed program performance measures and provided recommendations for their improvement. The performance measurement workshops and reviews increased attention to program performance measures and their links to program benefits. He also developed a customer database and a performance measurement database for EERE. In addition, Dr. Mortensen managed a web-based stakeholder review of DOE strategic goals.

Mr. Mortensen monitored state and federal budgetary developments potentially impacting the City of Syracuse. He coordinated a review of preliminary 1990 Census figures, resulting in thousands being added to housing and population counts. His analysis of the City’s utilization of minority- and women-owned businesses resulted in additional analysis and the reevaluation of related City policies. He served on the Mayor’s Subcabinet on Economic Development, and chaired the committee determining the future course of the City’s Records Management Program. He also represented the City at meetings of local government officials and secured $3.2 million in outside funding for environmental, energy, and public works projects.