SKYVOLTS, Inc.

 President/CEO position is open.

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.

Daryl Henderson, VP of Operations

Daryl has spent the past 25 years in the cable TV, broadband, public wifi systems and cellular communications industries. His executive and regional managerial positions have included department budgetary responsibilities in excess of $18 million and responsibility for managing a team of 9 regional managers included sales, customer operations, field operations, business administration, engineering, regional operations leader, community and governmental relations and executive assistant. His degrees are a BS in Business Administration, from Brigham Young University and a MBA from Regis University (2010), Denver, CO.

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 engineering along with a few years of independent research. Having formerly worked with Clyde on various other wind and solar energy applications, Kevin's analytical skills and technical savvy ensure SKYVOLTS utilizes the highest degree of proven, cost-effective wind technology available now and in the future.

Advisory Board

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.   

Clyde Childers, Founder,  andVP of Strategic Development

For last 10 year, Clyde has involved in renewable energy projects and start-up companies. Clyde has lectured at SolWest and other conference on concentrating solar systems, wind development for small wind farms, effect of solar farming in Oregon and Washington. Clyde is expert in small micro-wind geographic regions, advances in spectral splitting solar concentrators, solar panels and systems, and fuel cells technology.

After Clyde graduated from Oregon State University in Mathematics, Clyde begins his career by a number of companies involved in large scale computers. Clyde involvement included the uplink control for Skylab with Martin-Marietta Corporation, merging both paleontology information and seismic information together in online database for Pan American Oil, a new timeshare development for Start-up company owned by Dole Pineapple, online banking systems with several card processing companies for Western Unitied States; and a design of computer system under National Semiconduction Corporation, herein Clyde was designer of the I-unit of plug compatible IBM replacement computer called the D machine.

During this period 20 years of Clyde’s life, he was involved in large scale machines, microprogramming channel architecture, and channel architecture and responsible for implementation of IBM channel changes in multiprocessors. In addition to Clyde’s help in large scale machines, Clyde also was involved with Commodore early ventures into computer and developed certain key attributed for fixed format architecture for disk drives.

Sometime in 1978, Clyde invented his first computer using a novel method of search an associated memory using 5 step algorithms. Clyde patented a 256 page patent application on new database machine. This machine was build by Army Research Lab under contract for NSA.

In 1981, Clyde again struck out on his one to develop a new write once optical media using two layer polymer systems that revolutionized the way write once media was made for music recording. In 1987, Clyde recorded the first music on CD quality disk and play back on refitted CD player. Clyde has five patent issued to his name on optical media. In 1989, this technology was sold to N V Philips.

Today, Clyde is working a new invention with another individual to make highly accurate wind forecasting a reality for energy,transportation and commdity trading system. 

Clyde has been elected as Chairman of Board of the Company until Clyde finds a replacement.

Jerry Reed, Senior Mathematician

Jerry graduated from Panhandle State University, Goodwill, and Oklahoma with a mathematics degree in 1969 and from Southwestern Oklahoma in 79 with masters in mathematics.   Jerry taught high school math and science for thirty-two years in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, and Colorado.  Jerry coached football, basketball, track and field, baseball, and tennis.  I love to fish and hunt.  I have a lifelong hobby of collecting baseball memorabilia and cards.  Jerry has been married for thirty-seven years and has two boys and one girl.  Favorite thing to do is try to play my 1984 Dobra and listen to bluegrass music.

 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, Annimator

http://www.biz-hwy.com

• An experience technical communicator with a record of accomplishments in several industries
• Proven ability to clearly organize and communicate complex technical information in many formats
• Strengths in creating documentation, training materials, and managing the delivery of quality projects
• A result oriented, self-starter who effectively interfaces with customers, subject matter experts, and management
  

Tools

Highly proficient at creating and editing documents, training materials, and web pages using application web authoring tools:

• Adobe FrameMaker, Illustrator, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Flash, and Fireworks
• Microsoft Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, and Office Project
• AutoCAD, TurboCAD, and Freehand

Education

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana BA Fine Art
Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ. at Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana 62 hrs. Civil Engineering
University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 17 hrs. of MA Interdisciplinary Studies