Professional Profiles

Samples of professional profiles we have completed in the past:

CHERYL ROBINSON: Training Development Specialist (United States & Asia)

With a PhD in curriculum and Instruction from the University of Texas, Cheryl is currently employed by ISO ­New England, Holyoke, MA as their Operational Performance and Training Manager/SAT. Cheryl worked for Westinghouse Savannah River Company, Aiken, SC for fifteen years. She was their Manager of Training Effectiveness Evaluation/ Principal Training Specialist for Site Training.

She previously worked with Shaw/Stone & Webster, in Shanghai, China as their Training Manager, on the AP1000 Nuclear Project, Synch­Solutions, Inc., in Chicago, IL as a Change Management Manager, Energy Solutions. She was the Senior Instructional Technologist with Baroid Corporation, Houston, TX, Houston Lighting and Power Company, Houston, TX as a Senior Educational Specialist and Power Management Services, Walnut Creek, CA as the End Product Manager.

LINDA KALVER: Energy Specialist (Asia, Europe, the United States & the Middle East)

Ms. Kalver has over 30 years experience in energy: utility regulation and the economics of regulated industries. She has performed research in the areas of knowledge management and intellectual capital. She has applied economic theory, including demand theory and economic depreciation, to the measurement of intellectual capital and other intangibles, and she has presented her research at professional and academic seminars.

From 1996 through 2002, and since leaving the Asian Development Bank in 2005, Ms. Kalver has been engaged as an independent consultant in donor-funded projects in the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Asia, and Africa. Ms. Kalver has a BA from Harvard, where she graduated cum laude in Mathematics. She obtained an MA in economics from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania.

DONALD JONES: Senior Economist (Electricity, Oil, Hydrogen, Nuclear, and Natural Resources)

Mr. Jones is an experienced manager with the private sector, and laboratory expertise. His background pertains to energy (oil, hydrogen, nuclear power), transportation, environmental impact assessment, investment/project analysis, risk analysis & management, regional analysis, international economics, economic development, and sales forecasting. A problem solver Donald is able to identify problems in order to structure appropriate solutions. He has expertise at building teams, providing intellectual guidance and linkage.

Donald received his PhD in Geography (Economics) from the University of Chicago, his Master of Arts in Geography (Economics) from the University of Chicago, and his Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Texas at Austin. He has held faculty positions at the University of Tennessee (Department of Economics), University of Colorado (Associate Professor of Geography), and the University of Chicago (Departments of Geography and Economics).