President/CEO

CFO Position is open

Mike Lindsay, Executive Vice President of Marketing
Using available assets and personal resources, Mike has established and developed six business entities from
financial inception to profitable status and four to profitable sale. Mike has over thirty years' experience in ownership, management, financial compilation, risk management, contract negotiations, personnel development, and cost control in business and consulting services, oil and gas industry, environmental and organic research, farm and ranch operations, human resource development, and new-company sales.  The companies he built in the five-state region of the Oklahoma Panhandle included a well servicing firm which contracted with Fortune 500 oil and gas industry megaliths such as Exxon, Texaco, Phillips, etc.; a cutting-edge organic fertilizer company that worked with the Oklahoma Congress to alter existing fertilizer regulations; an employment agency that provided screened employees to local, national, and international corporations; and a farming operation that involved relations with the nation’s largest hog feeding operation. Mike attended  Oklahoma Panhandle State University and Oklahoma State University for a four year period.

Bill Beven, VP of Meteorological Product Management

Bill has spent 20 plus years in the software industry. He has held various positions, manager directing development and quality assurance in Mac, UNIX, and Windows environments; most recently as a Senior Director for Electronics for Imaging in Vancouver, WA. He has a proven track record leading cross-functional teams to deliver products on time and to meet OEM and customer expectations. Bill is a technical manager with a reputation for customer and sales focus. His degrees are a MSEE, Stanford University, and a BSEE, Rice University.

William Erickson, Director of Image Software Architecture

Bill's career has focused on the design, implementation, delivery, and support of advanced software systems, using his skills in commercial software development, object oriented technology, model-based reasoning, knowledgebased systems, expert systems, discrete event simulation, artificial intelligence, image processing, and graphical user interfaces. After working for several NASA research centers in image processing and artificial intelligence R&D, he has since worked for a number of major Aerospace and commercial software companies, designing, building, and supporting complex distributed systems. Bill has a BS in Computer Science from the University of Washington, and a MS in Computer Science from Stanford University, as well as BA degrees in Philosophy and Comparative Religions.

Daniel Richman, Senior Image Programmer

He has 30 years experience as a software developer, working on projects ranging from embedded microprocessor based avionics to Windows and Linux enterprise computing system software.  He has developed image processing algorithms for medical and industrial equipment.  He has worked on industrial machinery to automate the manufacture of solar cells, and on RADAR tracking software for both anti-aircraft systems and satellite launch tracking. Daniel graduated in 1979 from Oregon State University in Computer Science

Kevin Stolpe, Senior Physicist

As  member of  the Applied Sciences team  for SKYVOLTS, Kevin exercises the breadth of his knowledge and education as a
graduate from Portland State University in physics and electrical

Advisory Board Carl Mc Cutcheon

Carl is a senior executive with extensive business growth experience (including information technology, upstream-E&P, oilfield service technology, midstream-natural gas pipelines and downstream-power and chemicals businesses). Carl is a proven company builder with entrepreneurial record of rapidly building profitable organizations that have closed over $9 billion of transactions. Credentials include a Harvard MBA, a master’s level accounting certificate from Northwestern University, CPA Certificate, BSBA in Marketing and Management. Carl’s senior executive experience (CEO/Board Member/Officer) at Williams (Williams Energy Group, Williams Exploration, Louisiana Resources), Koch Industries, Enron, CheMatch, and AMM Operations.

Dr Jody House, from Lupine, LLC

Scientific and technical consultancy, has over fifteen years of experience in R&D and consulting. Her experience is diverse; she has developed novel MEMS for biomedical applications, explored II-VI compound semiconductors and SiC for high-speed optical switching and high temperature devices, and developed commodity models to evaluate mechanisms for change within organizations and the management of natural resources. Today, she is focused on strategic planning, data analysis and grant submissions for young high-tech companies. Jody received her degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Massachusetts (BS) and MIT (MS and PhD).

Dr. Scott James

Scott James earned his BS and MS degrees in mechanical engineering from UC San Diego with emphases in fluid mechanics and numerical methods. In 2001, he graduated from UC Irvine with a doctorate in engineering with emphasis on solving environmental flow and transport problems. Shortly thereafter, he joined Sandia National Laboratories Performance/Risk Assessment and Decision Analysis Department in Carlsbad, New Mexico, in charge of certifying the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the only operating trans-uranic nuclear waste repository in the world. Next, he joined the Geohydrology Department in Albuquerque and contributed significantly to both the Yucca Mountain Project and International Programs. Scott is currently a principal member of the technical staff in the Thermal/Fluid Science & Engineering Department at Sandia Labs in Livermore, California, where he continues to work on a wide variety of environmental flow and transport modeling problems.

Dr. Jim Davies 

Jim holds an undergraduate degree in applied physics from the Western Australian Institute of Technology (WAIT) and a PhD in satellite remote sensing from Curtin University of Technology.  His professional experience in remote sensing science began in 1984 with ground-based LIDAR and the implementation of software packages for the retrieval of geophysical information from earth-observing satellite instruments.  His work since then has mainly been focused upon atmospheric irradiative transfer in the UV, VIS, NIR and thermal IR spectral regions.  In Australia he worked for Curtin University and University of Western Australia, often under contract to the Australian Defense Science and Technology Organization (DSTO), and for the Australian government laboratories, CSIRO.  Jim is currently under contract to the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) at University of Wisconsin - Madison where he is developing an algorithm for the atmospheric correction of satellite observations over the coastal zone and working on radiative transfer simulations to support the next generation of GOES satellites.  Jim also holds a post-graduate qualification in materials science and has experience as production manager for an Australian company that fabricates advanced engineering ceramics allowed him to use his creative energy to make them a success.

Senior Fellowships

Dr. Charles Ivie, Founder, and Senior VP of Research and Development

Dr. Ivie retired from NASA after a forty-year engineering career at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). His space program projects included interplanetary navigation and guidance systems for the lunar programs during the 1960s, as well as the Mars Rover project and the Jupiter programs.  As a senior scientist on an FAA weather monitoring program, Dr. Ivie worked on the NEXRAD Doppler radar system, the GOES weather satellite, and an upper atmosphere model and studies program during his last years at NASA.  Dr. Ivie brings additional strength to SKYVOLTS for modeling the upper boundary meteorology studies.  He received his PhD in astrophysics for his work on the dynamics of galactic structures.  The degree was awarded by Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as part of the professional work/study applications program.  During his retirement, he has started two successful companies and both have allowed him to use his creative energy to make them a success.   

Media Relations Founders

Cheryl Grey

Mrs. Grey graduated magna cum laude from the University of Houston earning a bachelor of gerneral studies with emphases in writing,
analysis, literature, and history. She went on to earn an MA in writing popular fiction from Seton Hill University with emphases in mystery and romantic suspense novels, and manuscript critiquing. Her career has been just as diversified, spanning the publishing, advertising, and legal fields, with nearly 30 years of freelance writing for national publications and community service with the Humble City Police Department and communications support to assist new members of the Pickens Plan. Currently she is exercising her strong analytical skills as a contributing writer to international clients in the fields of foreign currency trading analysis and the constantly shifting scenarios of global economics.

Kathy Lee Hart

Kathy Lee Hart is a graduate of Indiana State University with a BA in Theatre, Radio, TV &
 MassCommunications. Her career spans New York stage, screen, daytime TV, commercials,
regional theatre, and stand-up comedy. She studied her craft under Lee Strasberg, world famous actor and teacher, and others in New York City.  Ms. Hart has also perused other interests; during the late 1970s into the late 1980s she enjoyed positions as a Stockbroker for Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb, Bear Sterns, and Paine Webber, during which time she continued working in show business, as she does today.

Judy Menninger

A graduate of Purdue University in Fine Arts, she went on to study Civil Engineering. Judy is an experienced technical communicator with a record of accomplishments in several industries. She has a proven ability to clearly organize and communicate complex technical information in many formats. With strenghts in designing documentation, training materials, and managing project delivery,  Judy is currently producing animations and website design.

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