V-BAR - Consultants to the Wind Industry

	Richard Simon (BA, MS, Meteorology) has been working in the wind energy industry since 1977, at which time he co-authored the first formal study of wind resource potential in California. He has been Principal Investigator on wind energy research projects sponsored by the US federal government, several state governments, and electric utility companies. Mr. Simon helped site many of the California wind turbines built in the early 1980's. During the 1990's, these efforts were expanded across the United States and abroad. Mr. Simon has personally sited approximately 10,000 MW of operating wind turbines around the world, and collaborated in the selection of many other turbines. He is well respected by the financial community, and has often served as a bank's meteorologist for wind resource due diligence. In addition to the pure meteorological work, Mr. Simon works closely with clients to help them define and implement business strategies. The integration of science and business is critical to successful wind resource development in today's challenging environment.
	David F. Matson (BS, Meteorology) has been part of the team since 1983. His specialties are data management, software development, instrumentation, and power performance testing of wind turbines. Mr. Matson has processed meteorological data from thousands of stations around the world. He has written a complete software library for comprehensive wind energy analyses. He also specializes in site visits and resource reports. He has installed hundreds of wind monitoring towers and has trained crews for clients to meet state-of-the-art specifications.
	Allen J. Becker (MS, Meteorology) had a college and university teaching background prior to joining the team in 1996. He is an expert in data base management and processes data from hundreds of meteorological towers monthly. Mr. Becker also specializes in internet climate research, data acquisition, site visits, turbine micrositing, power performance testing, and wind resource report preparation.
	Jeff Gawrych (MS, Meteorology) has been working with V-Bar since 2005. Mr. Gawrych has examined meteorological data from thousands of stations worldwide and has written numerous programs for comprehensive wind energy analyses. He also specializes in climate research, data acquisition, turbine site suitability, new meteorological techniques, site visits, and resource reports. Prior to joining V-bar Mr. Gawrych’s work experience included teaching meteorology at the college level and studying wind patterns and global dust storms in the Martian atmosphere with the NASA Ames Research Center.
	Eron W. Jones (MS, Mathematics-Atmospheric Science) joined the V-Bar team in 2007 after completing his master’s thesis on global climate networks. He handles data retrieval and quality control procedures for numerous meteorological towers each month. Mr. Jones also is experienced with meteorological tower and turbine siting, wind farm climactic condition requirements, and compiling wind resource analysis reports.
	Matthew H. Bullard (BS, Atmospheric Sciences, MPA, Public Policy and Administration) joined V-Bar in 2008. He specializes in data processing, quality control, and wind resource reporting and has streamlined V-Bar’s data acquisition and project management processes. Prior to joining V-Bar, he worked as a technical lead in the IT industry specializing in the management of enterprise-wide corporate UNIX and Window-based computer systems and as an applications and quality assurance engineer specializing in a UNIX-based broadcast and operational weather analysis software suites.
	Gregory S. Poulos (B.S. 1989, M.S. 1993, Ph.D. 1996) joined V-Bar in September 2009. Since 2007 he had led Clipper Windpower’s first meteorology and wind resource assessment group, where he oversaw numerous wind energy projects from origination to operations, and advised the turbine manufacturing, construction management and O&M teams. His meteorological focus throughout his career has concerned winds in complex terrain, very high resolution mesoscale modeling, large-eddy simulations and atmospheric observations using towers, sodar, lidar and profiling atmospheric radar. In 1996, he joined Colorado Research Associates, where, among other modeling and observational work, he led the CASES-99 tall tower and remote sensing field experiment studying the winds over the plains of Kansas. In 1999 he co-founded the operational numerical weather prediction company Foresight Weather, LLC. In 2003 he joined the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Earth Observing Laboratory, where he was a Scientist and led the Research Technology Facility whose purpose was to develop and deploy advanced tower, lidar, sodar, radar and balloon-borne observational equipment for scientific research worldwide.