Dr. Mark S. Shirilau
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1989–Present

President and CEO

Aloha Systems, Incorporated

Riverside, CA.

 

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Chief executive of engineering consulting and general contracting firm.
 

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Institutional, industrial, commercial, and residential energy efficiency.
 

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Utility program research, measurement, and evaluation.
 

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Assessment and evaluation of new and developing electrotechnologies.
 

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Renewable energy supply and distributed generation assessments.
 

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Electric service provider rate optimization.
 

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Market research and consumer opinion studies.
 

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Residential and commercial construction.

 

1983–1989

Supervisor/Project Manager

Southern California Edison Company

Rosemead, CA.

 

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Corporate Research and Development Department:  Technical and financial evaluation, assessment, and contracting of
major projects for wind, solar, and other renewable energy power plants.
 

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Residential Conservation Program:  Supervised staff of engineers and other professionals responsible for setting standards and evaluating technical aspects of residential conservation program on company-wide basis.  Provided training and advanced assistance to division-based energy services representatives.
 

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Customer Energy Services Division:  Designed, implemented, and managed major research projects in areas of residential, commercial, and industrial energy use and demand-side management, including project planning, design, contracting, field construction, engineering and econometric evaluation, management of consultants, preparation of final reports, and preparation of professional papers and oral presentations.
 

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Residential Energy Usage Comparison Project:  Full responsibility for $4,000,000 research project of SCE and EPRI.

 

1978–1983

Manager, Administrative Services

EECO Incorporated

Santa Ana, CA.

 

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Multifaceted responsibilities at medium-sized electronics manufacturer.
 

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Energy management and telecommunications.
 

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Patent review and registration.
 

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Corporate policy manual.
 

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Security, facilities planning, and miscellaneous functions.

 

 

2001–Present

Lecturer, Electronics

Citrus Community College

Glendora, CA.

 

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Lecture and laboratory courses in electronics and electrical theory.

 

1983–1991

Engineering Professor

West Coast University

Orange, CA.

 

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Part-time instructor of upper division and graduate courses. Generation, transmission, electromechanical devices, magnetic theory, control systems, measurement devices and strategies, R&D and project management, engineering economics, kinematics, power systems, economic design analysis, professional practices, ethics, mathematics, physics, and materials sciences courses.

 

1981–1982

Lecturer, Electronics

Rancho Santiago Community College

Santa Ana, CA.

 

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Vo-tech courses in electronics, electrical theory, and technical management.
 

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Advisory committee of community college and industry representatives.

 

1977–1978

Lecturer, Electrical Engineering

California Polytechnic State University

San Luis Obispo, CA.

 

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Lecture and laboratory courses in power systems, machines, electronics, circuit theory, and semiconductor devices.

 

 

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering 1989

University of California

Irvine, CA.

 

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Electric power systems, generation, transmission, distribution, control, design, management and operations.
 

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Dissertation on integration of conservation and load management into system planning, DSM affects on overall system operation, and optimization of TOU rate structures for maximum customer, utility, and society benefit.

 

M.A., Religion 1985

Claremont School of Theology

Claremont, CA.

 

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Seminary of the Episcopal Church.

 

M.S., Business Administration 1980

University of California

Irvine, CA.

 

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Business management, operations research, financial accounting.

 

Master of Engineering, Electric Power Systems 1978                       

Calif. Polytechnic State Univ.

San Luis Obispo, CA.

 

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Design of transmission and distribution systems.
 

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Operation and control of power plants and electromechanical devices.

 

B.S., Electrical Engineering 1977

University of California

Irvine, CA.

 

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Electric power systems; also electronic, mechanical, and civil engineering.

 

 
bulletCalifornia registered professional electrical engineer (E-11818)

 

 

 
bulletTexas registered professional engineer (88014)

 

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bulletLicensed general electrical contractor, (B, C-10, C-4, HIC, California #541443)

 

 
bulletLocksmith (California LCO-3045)

 

 

 
bulletCommunity college teaching credential, engineering

 

 
bulletNotary public

 

 
bulletAdvanced open water diver (PADI)

 

 

 
bulletAmerican Society of Heating Refrigerating and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)

 

 
bulletAssociation of Energy Engineers (AEE) (Senior Member)

 

 
bulletAssociation of Professional Energy Managers (APEM)

 

 
bulletAmerican Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE)

 

 
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International Association of Chiefs of Police

 

bulletAssociation of Energy Services Professionals (AESP) (former executive VP)
 
bulletInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (senior member)
 
bulletAir Pollution Control Association
 
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Demand-Side Management Society of AEE
 

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Eta Kappa Nu
 

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Heat Pump Council of Southern California (treasurer)
 

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Institute for the Advancement of Engineering
 

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Mensa
 

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Power Engineering Society of IEEE
 

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UCI Alumni Association

 

 
bulletAEA Credit Union
 
bulletAIDS Interfaith Network of Sonoma County
 
bulletAloha Systems, Incorporated
 
bulletAssociation of Energy Services Professionals [AESP]
 
bulletEcumenical Catholic Church
 
bulletEwcon Corporation
 
bulletHealing Spirit Press
 
bulletHeat Pump Council of Southern California
 
bulletHoly Apostles Seminary
 
bulletOutrider Trucking, Inc.
 
bulletPacific Bears
 
bulletRyukendo Karate Institute
 
bulletSweetwater Springs Water District

 

 
bullet Power 101: A Basic Introduction to Electric Utility Power (1998).  Book helping residential and commercial customers in a deregulated electric market.
 
bulletHistory of the Ecumenical Catholic Church (1995)
 
bulletElectric Systems for Non-Technical Personnel (1998) Irvine CA., Aloha Systems, Inc.

 

 
bullet"Adjusting End-Use Data for Time-of-Use Rates." Western States Load Research Group, Boise, ID., April 1990.
 
bullet"Applications of Electric Heat Pumps." The Heat Pumper, Vol. 2, Aug 1989.
 
bullet"Commercial Heat Pump Water Heating Applications." EPRI Water Heating Workshop, St. Louis, MO., June 1990.
 
bullet"Complexities of Cost-Effectiveness, The" The Heat Pumper, Vol. 1, Aug 1988
 
bullet"Computerized Data Collection for End-Use Experiments." IEEE Computer Applications in Power, Vol. 1, No. 1, Jan 1988.
 
bullet"Design of a Utility competitive Assessment Experiment: The Residential Energy Usage Comparison Experiment." IEEE Power Engineering Society, San Francisco, CA., July 1987. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol 3, No. 3 (Aug 1988), pp. 1298-1305.
 
bullet"Development of a Heat Pump Association." EPRI/EEI Meeting Customer Needs with Heat Pumps Conference, Atlanta, GA., Nov. 1989.
 
bullet"End-Use Data Adjustments Under Time-of-Use Rates." Second Annual Conference on End-Use Load Information and Its Role in DSM, Irvine, CA, July 1990. (Santa Ana, CA.: Aloha Systems)
 
bullet"End-Use Load Information for Effective Energy Management." IEEE Industrial Applications Society meeting, May 1991.
 
bullet"Engineering and Econometric Design of a Utility Competitive Assessment Experiment, The: The Residential Energy Usage Comparison Project." 10th World Energy Engineering Congress, Atlanta, GA., Oct 1987. Integration of Efficient Design Technologies, pp. 453-458. (Atlanta, GA: AEE, 1988.)
 
bullet"Heat Pump Water Heaters Benefit Laundromat Owners." (Long Beach, CA: Heat Pump Council of Southern California, Sept. 1988.)
 
bullet"Integrating Market Research Information with End-Use Load Data for Analysis of Technologies' Acceptance and Efficiency." Demand-Side Management Strategies for the 90's, Cincinnati, OH, May 1989. (Palo Alto, CA.: EPRI CU-6367.)
 
bulletMethodology for Integrating Time-of-Use Rates in Residential Demand-Side Planning, A. Doctoral dissertation, UC Irvine. (Santa Ana, CA.: Aloha Systems, 1989.)
 
bullet"Preliminary Results of the EPRI/SCE REUC Project." Western States Load Research Group, Costa Mesa, CA., Sep 1989.
 
bullet"Quantitative and Qualitative Comparisons of Induction, Resistance, and Natural Gas Residential Cooking." Proceedings of the 39th Annual International Appliance Technical Conference, pp. 355-366. (Madison, WI., May 1988.)
 
bullet"Review of World-Wide Heat Pump Innovations: A Discussion of the 3rd IEA Heat Pump Conference." 13th World Energy Engineering Congress, Atlanta, GA., Oct. 1990.
 
bullet"Trade Allies in Heat Pump Marketing." EPRI/EEI Meeting Customer Needs with Heat Pumps Conference, Atlanta, GA., Nov. 1989.
 
bullet"Cost Effective Metering for End-Use Analysis" 11th National Energy Services Conference, New Orleans, LA., December 5, 2000.
 
bullet"Low Cost Approach to Metering for End-Use Analysis" (With Mark S. Martinez, Southern California Edison). Western States Load Research Association Conference, Phoenix, AZ., October 27, 1999.
 
bullet"Surfing the Pacific Intertie": What to Learn While Rolling Through a Blackout." Western States Load Research Association Conference, Fort Worth, TX., April 25, 2001.
 
bullet"Stability of the Pacific Intertie": Public Testimony Regarding the System Disturbance of August 12, 1996. Testimony before the California Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco, CA., August 21, 1996.
 
bullet"Scheduling Rotating Outages Within All of California", Public Commentary to the Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco, CA., May 26, 2001.

 

 
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