Senior technical executive and software architect with a focus on technology, business and policy issues related to energy transformation in the electricity industry. 40 years of software engineering experience in distributed embedded systems and their integration with enterprise computing environments (IoT), and 20 years of experience specifically in the energy transformation space.Co-Founder and retired Chief Scientist of Utopus Insights, Inc., a company that specializes in advanced utility analytics for renewable generation, asset health, forecasting, and Distributed Energy Resource (DER) integration and optimized orchestration for many business and operational applications such as peak reduction, voltage support, unplanned event mitigation and many more. Prior to founding Utopus Insights, was a Distinguished Engineer and Chief Technology Officer for Smarter Energy Research at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.Began working with the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) in 2000 on the planning, collaboration and workshops that led to the creation of the DoE GridWise initiative in late 2002, and later on the planning and launch of the GridWise Alliance industry consortium in 2003. Selected in 2004 to sit on the 13-member DoE GridWise Architecture Council; served as Chairman of the Council in 2009 and 2010, and continues as a member.Served as Chairman of the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel 2.0's (SGIP 2.0) Architecture Committee for its first five years.Was an active member of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 25 Working Group 1 for 20 years, which deals with residential and building automation technology (served as editor and working party lead for an application interoperability standard -- ISO/IEC 18012).Specialties: Energy transformation, grid architecture, transactive energy, energy business models, energy policy, smart grids, flexible energy resources, distributed energy resources, demand response, energy storage, electric vehicles, interoperability frameworks, Internet of Things (IoT), event programming models, real time systems, control systems, sensor networks, smart cities, standards.