23 years experience at a Navy Science lab evolving to Senior Systems Engineer after formal Systems Engineering training. Experience includes large scale systems integration, program management, reliability and quality improvement, verification and validation testing.

Four years experience designing and building electric vehicles, promoting and networking in the electric vehicle industry. As owner of Z ***** , LLC, designed and fabricated ground-up EV that has been on the road for over three ***** pleted numerous vehicle conversions and also completed experimental aircraft build that has been in continuous use for almost ten years.

Speaking and writing about EV's regularly, and supporting city efforts to grow as an EV city. Converted city Prius to PHEV and involved in various EV working groups.