A full service Solar and Green Energy installation company. We install Solar, Heat Pumps, Battery Backup Systems, EV chargers and more. System services and monitoring.

Small and large business consulting. Services include marketing, website design, publications, strategic planning, point of sale systems, computer systems, grant writing, VISA applications, licensing, social media campaigns, and support. Coming soon: accounting and taxation support.

Using over a decade and a half of experience in Emergency Preparedness with the Southern Maine Regional Resource Center for Healthcare Emergency Preparedness. Supporting past agencies and companies that I have worked with and helping new ones including private companies, school systems, municipal governments, and agencies including Fire and Police Departments. Offering immediate help to any of the aforementioned with COVID 19 preparedness. Continuity of Operations (COOP) consulting for large scale business.

Solar installer in Western Maine, Kane Solar LLC started as Garbo-Kane Solar.

AP Physics and CP Physics teacher.

I helped the MRG with the promotion of Passenger and Freight Railways in Maine. Non-profit work and lobbying, writing bills for the Maine legislature, and promoting specific projects.

• Development of non-profit focused on the promotion of passenger and freight rail in New England.• Successfully drafted and passed promotional bills.• Worked with multiple agencies and government including: The Northern New EnglandPassenger Rail Authority (NEPRA), citizens action committees and Maine Sierra Club.• Engaged in public speaking around the state.

Management of commercial and residential solar power systems Installations, business development systems, design, proposals, grant writing, and process analysis. Commercial solar farm development, power purchase, and Interconnection agreements with utilities. Battery backup and energy storage systems.

Bringing Trane Engineering and Systems (heat pumps, HVAC technology) to commercial accounts to complement Solar Power. Complete energy, heating, A/C, ventilation, and air quality solutions along with whole building energy and water conservation measures and techniques. Fully automated and remotely monitored systems.

• Maine non-profit, outreach and public speaking on key energy and transportation issues including lobbying National and State Legislatures.• Promotion of bills on Solar and Wind Energy and storage, passenger rail transportation, bicycle and pedestrian transportation, land conservation, climate change, energy efficiency, electric vehicles, and related topics.• Orchestration of political campaigns, working with political action committees.

2014-Present President, Director, Founder, Southern Maine Regional Resource Center, SMRRC Inc., (Portland ME) A non-profit dedicated to emergency preparedness of southern Maine with a regional coalition of 300+ healthcare agencies• Wrote Regional Emergency Plans of Southern Maine including: Mass casualty/fatality, Emergency Communications, Evacuation, Alternate Care Sites, Volunteer Management, Surge Plans, Infectious Disease (including Ebola), and Continuity of Operations.• Integration of state and regional planning including: Disaster Behavioral Health, and Strategic National Stockpile Deployment plans.• Directed monthly Coalition meetings, guided training, exercises, drills and coordination of the aforementioned including national level speakers on key topics.• Wrote yearly regional Hazard Vulnerability Analysis (HVA) to define hazards and their impact on healthcare system, including Geospatial and GAP analysis.• Visited dozens of Hospitals, clinics, Long Term Care Centers and medical offices to train staff, do planning, exercises and drills, review Emergency Plans, coordinate Response and integrate staff and agency into the preparedness Coalition.

2010-14 Director, Interim Director SMRRC, (Portland ME).• Led 3 FT staff in all operations of Public Health and Healthcare Emergency Preparedness for 4 counties in Maine with 300+ agencies including all major hospitals, medical centers, labs, ambulatory surgical centers, public health departments, and county and local governments.• Worked under the Federal Healthcare Preparedness Program (HPP) grant, with ME Center for Disease Control (CDC).• Coordinated with the US Assistant Secretary of Preparedness and Response (ASPR) and other Federal partners.• Trained hundreds of individuals and agencies on key aspect of Emergency Preparedness, including Incident Command System (ICS), Mass casualty, fatality and patient decontamination, infectious disease and all the aforementioned plans.website: www.smrrc.org

Managed 1 staff while the office was in transition from a resigning Director. Took over all responsibilities of programs including a Federal/State Contract and completed all terms of that contract.

I am still doing this position as part of the Director Position or as soon as we can hire some help.

Professional Ski Instructor in Telemark and Backcountry ski instruction. Taught thousands of skiers over the last 25+ years in all forms of Nordic Backcountry skiing. Worked as a professional ski guide on backcountry training camps and excursions in many remote locations in the US and Canada. Have been trained and certified by several organizations including NATO, PSIA and NSP.

Former owner of Paul Weiss Photo/Video, Commercial Video production and photography of outdoor sports and the natural world.Produced over a dozen professional full length DVD's on Cyclocross racing in the US. These include the only full coverage of several National Championships and other races. Was the largest collection of images of Cyclocross in the US (at the time). Print and digital image sales. Images were featured in advertisements and magazines including Velo News and others magazines.

Coached both individuals and Teams on all aspects of bike racing and training in the areas of road and cyclocross. Developed a junior development programs for the largest cycling club in Maine. Brought Junior riders to National Championship levels and coached individuals who became World Class and professional athletes. Was President for over a decade of the Portland Velo Club, Maine oldest and largest cycling club. Brought club to Non-Profit Status from an amateur club.

Computer Systems

National Travel to Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industry for technical sales consulting on anti-body and antigen reagents for medical experimentation, assays and devices.

Instrumentation Development and research on a host of laboratory instruments that are used in both the Veterinary Sciences and Environmental Testing environments. Travelled Nationally and internationally doing research on development of these instruments including new parameters and tests for existing instruments. Computer hardware, software, chemistry, Hematology, Microbiology, and immunoassay development.