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Bob Kistner, serves as the
President/CEO of the Energy Planning Consultants
Inc. (EPC). He served over 20-years with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
10-years with FEMA, and other agencies responding to over 30 disasters.
Bob has written over 60 books and articles pertaining to disasters
and energy emergencies. He has worked for federal, state, local
 governments, and private
nonprofits. For over three decades EPC has
served many cities and states preparing
energy
assurance
plans. These plans are necessary to ensure
a quick response to an energy emergency, natural, or man-made
disaster. Several states and cities have contracted with EPC to
annually update their plans and to provide energy exercises to test
the effectiveness of their. We now offer a web-enabled fuel allocation
system that can be used to get fuel to stranded motorists on the
highway during an evacuation. It can also be used to get fuel to those critical facilities around the state. Bob also developed an
emergency refueling hose
assembly that has been used in fuel
shortages. Energy emergency planning is a
urgently needed service during disaster planning. This planning
links energy emergency response planning ESF-12 into your state or
city disaster plans. During 2010, the State of Delaware Energy Office
contracted with EPC for energy assurance
planning. EPC is nearing completion of the State of Mississippi
Energy Assurance Plan.
Pierre LeBlanc,
Energy Assurance Planner & Consultant to EPC -
Pierre has over twenty five years of
energy experience. His areas of expertise include low-
and high voltage electrical design, power and signal
distribution, e equipment
and facility ground plane design, high-technology clean
manufacturing, and cross-discipline project management.
energy experience. His areas of expertise include low-
and high voltage electrical design, power and signal distribution, equipment and
facility ground plane design, high-technology clean
manufacturing, and cross-discipline project management.
Pierre has extensive experience in developing energy
assurance plans, managing disaster response efforts, and
creating business model tools to be used for training
and project planning. In his role as a New Product
Development Project Manager for several generations of
semiconductor capital equipment tools, he developed
communication and data management skills that yield
effective cross-functional team project execution, and
easy access to large volumes of integrated data. Other
experience includes process map development, process
implementation, development/documentation of performance
specifications, and system upgrade management. Pierre
has served with the American Red Cross as a Community
Relations Administrator. He assisted EPC in the
development of the State of Mississippi Energy Assurance
Plan and multi-agencies exercises in Mississippi.
Jim Trobaugh,
Energy Assurance Planner & Consultant to EPC, graduated from Georgia Tech
with a degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering. He
worked for the Southern Company System for over 30 yrs
in management, marketing, energy conservation, energy
 management
and demand side management. He was involved in
initiating energy resource plans for the Southern
System, including Alabama Power, Georgia Power, Gulf
Power, and Mississippi Power. He developed energy
conservation programs for the Company, as well as the
electric industry. He managed the implementation of the
first energy audit computer program system in the
country and the first Total Energy Resource Plan. After
leaving the Southern Company, Jim has worked as a
consultant in the energy field. His experience includes
work with A&C Enercom, Energy Management Solutions, and
Business Performance Solutions.
He has
worked with utilities throughout the U.S. in energy and
demand side management, He also worked with the Electric
Power Research Institute on renewable resources,
electric vehicle research and energy conservation. Jim
devoted many years working on committees with the Edison
Electric Institute and as a consultant managed the
creation of the Industries’ first environmental friendly
and conservation home program. Jim is experienced and
knowledgeable about resource planning, energy audits,
energy planning, renewable energy sources, conservation,
and electric power distribution. Jim is located in
Roswell, Georgia and will assist EPC in the data
collection of infrastructure information.
Robert
E. Acker - EPC
-Collaborating Colleague - Commander Bob Acker, U.S.
Coast Guard (retired), owner of Monument,
 Colorado-based
Ackcellent Consulting LLC, has over 30 years
experience in safety, security, preparedness,
infrastructure protection, contingency planning and
emergency response in the public and private
sectors. During his active-duty career, he applied
preparedness and planning skill sets in complex
operating environments, including port operations,
transportation security, casualty investigations,
environmental crimes task force casework, collaborative
partnerships, and coastal zone contingency planning. He
advised more than 50 senior officers assigned as coastal
zone Federal On-Scene Coordinators under the National
Contingency Plan, and developed productive partnerships
with state and local stakeholder groups in the response
community. He co-chaired a project team that initiated
development of a user-friendly, streamlined,
electronically searchable regional area contingency plan
for oil and hazardous materials response that has been
available to the public for more than a decade. He
conducted a successful three-year community outreach
effort to integrate an all-hazards approach into area
planning committee processes (read
more) (more-details)
(Bob's
Innovations).
Douglas
Buser Jr., EPC - Collaborating Colleague
- Doug is an information and communications technology
specialist with a background in crisis management and
new media. Doug is the Director of Communications at
west coast based Golden Gate
 Advisors
Inc. During the Deepwater Horizon Incident, Doug was the
Communications Lead for BP's High Interest Technologies
Test Team and later BP's Alternative Response
Technologies team. Under Doug's leadership, the HITT
Team received positive media impressions in the USA
Today, Popular Mechanics, and on the front page of the
Wall Street Journal. Doug has also written emergency
response and crisis management manuals for major oil
companies combining social media, crowdsourcing, and
database management to meet local, state, and Federal
regulations. Doug's expertise spans research and
application of public relations, brand equity, and
digital advocacy. Doug produced and presented a seminar
that combined reputation management, safety and
planning, and corporate culture entitled
The Fundamentals of
Reputation Management. Along with collateral
development, Doug has an integrated relationship
marketing background in both B2B and B2C contexts. Doug
is FEMA Professional Development Series Certified and
holds a Bachelor of Arts and Sciences in Communications
Studies from Seattle University.
Daryl Kistner,
Energy Assurance Planner & Consultant to EPC -
Daryl
assisted EPC in the development of the
State of
 Mississippi
Energy Assurance Plan. He participated in field
investigations of flood-damages along the Mississippi
River. Daryl
has
managed Federal and State government projects such as
Buckley Airbase, Lowry Airbase, Stapleton Airport
(Runway Extensions), Boulder Waste Water Plant, Genesee
and York Street Waste Water Plants, Colorado School of
Mines, University of Colorado Boulder, Metro State, and
pipeline EPA Grant Projects. He is considered an expert
in all types road work, excavating, pipe (large and
small), estimating concrete and fill-operations, water
tanks, septic systems, and fuel tanks, bore operations,
vaults, curb, gutter, storm, retention ponds above and
below ground, manhole fabrication and installation,
pressurized sewer systems. Daryl's professional skills
with writing RFI’s, submittals, submittal logs,
close-out documents, zoning, licensing, permitting
procedures, fire systems and alarms, security systems
and testing (expanded
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