Career timeline & references

Electrical design leader with 17 years across solar PV, battery energy storage, EV charging and commercial power distribution, designed to US codes (NEC/NFPA 70, Title 24, CBC/IBC, IFC, ADA) and California utility standards. Built three teams from the ground up — a 35-person renewables design branch, a general-construction group delivering in Revit/BIM, and a dedicated QC function — along with the standards, review gates and training systems that made them repeatable.

Below: a reverse-chronological record of that career, the colleagues who can speak to it, and the engineers trained and managed along the way. Hover a name for the years we overlapped; click for the full note.

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Director of Engineering — GC, EV & RE QC

PEARCE SERVICES → CBRE (FROM OCT 2025)
AUG 2023 – PRESENT
AGRAHYBRIDSPLIT SHIFT
▾ DETAIL
  • Built and leads the General Construction design group in India — commercial lighting, power distribution and emergency systems in Revit 3D/BIM.
  • Moved delivery from 2D AutoCAD to Revit 3D/BIM.
  • Established the Renewable Energy QC function from 2025 — checklist, reviewer training, and the scoring gate that moved average QC scores from 8.0 to 9.4.
  • Authors the company's electrical design standards and the technical-test screens used in hiring.
  • Escalation point for junior engineers and project managers, including teams outside direct management.
  • Building design automation with AI assistance — NEC calculation engine, single-line diagram generator, code audit engine.
LEARNED HERE

Revit / BIM delivery · Title 24 Part 6 and CALGreen · lighting design (AGi32, ElumTools) · ETAP · photometrics · Python, FastAPI and AI-assisted development · QC framework design.

Certifications: Title 24 Part 6 Essentials — Nonresidential & Multifamily Indoor Lighting Controls, and Residential Lighting (EnergyCodeAce, Feb 2023) · AI Generalist Accelerator (Outskill, Oct 2025).

2026
AUG 2023
STILL HERE, AND RECENT DEPARTURES
Jeffrey H. Ansley, PECURRENT · NOT A REFERENCEPrincipal Engineer, Pearce Renewables2011 – PRESENT
Sugreev SharmaCURRENT · NOT A REFERENCEDirector, Pearce Renewables2013 – PRESENT
Edward (Eddie) Wolpert, PEinSr. Director of Engineering, MBL EnergySEP 2022 – JUL 2026
Jonathan (JB) BaileyCURRENT · NOT A REFERENCEGM - Engineering, Pearce Renewables2023 – PRESENT
Sandeep SudeepCURRENT · NOT A REFERENCEManaging Director & VP, Pearce Services Global2023 – PRESENT
LEFT DURING THIS PERIOD
Jonathan Gracey, PEinSr. Electrical Engineer, NV5LATE 2021 – OCT 2025
Matilda Pulaha, PEinSenior Electrical Engineer, Milhouse2021 – MAR 2025
Ben ByingtoninSenior Project Manager, JTE Electrical Inc.2018 – SEP 2024

Director of Engineering

NATRON RESOURCES INC.
India entity: RadSol Design Pvt. Ltd. · president: Jeffrey H. Ansley
17 APR 2017 – JUL 2023
AGRA · JALANDHAR 2018–19WFH → OFFICE → WFHSPLIT SHIFT
▾ DETAIL
  • Led the technical training programme for new engineers; built department-wide NEC expertise in the process.
  • Introduced EasyPower for electrical studies, bringing short-circuit and coordination analysis in-house.
  • Established a new design branch from 2020 and grew it to 35 engineers by 2023, about half the company's headcount at the time.
  • Hired graduates directly from colleges, screened with technical tests, trained in-house against a Designer Handbook he made for the team.
  • Built the team to run autonomously — delivery proceeded without daily oversight, with only clarifications and technical concerns escalating.
  • From late 2022, four hours a day on General Construction and four on renewables, learning GC from a standing start.
LEARNED HERE

Team building at scale · technical-test hiring · training system design · engineering standards · commercial power distribution code and Revit from late 2022.

JUL 2023
APR 2017
LEFT DURING THIS PERIOD
CLIENT-SIDE REFERENCES
Marc UnderwoodinBuilding Plans Checker II, City of Folsom2016 – 2018
Stuart FoxinDirector of Engineering, Greentech Renewables2012 – 2019
Brian CostainExpert Category Leader, Pacific Gas and Electric2011 – 2014 · 2017 – 2022
Nicholas YehinDirector of Sustainability, Clean Energy Fuels2012 – 2015

Senior Project Manager

NATRON RESOURCES INC.
India entity: Natron Energy Pvt. Ltd. · president: Jeffrey H. Ansley
JUL 2013 – 17 APR 2017
AGRAWORK FROM HOMESPLIT SHIFT FROM 2014
▾ DETAIL
  • Created and maintained the project template set and document libraries used across the design department.
  • Cross-team technical resource for design problems and escalations.
  • PV design packages for commercial, utility-scale and residential projects across North America.
  • Began designing battery energy storage systems from 2013, alongside the PV work.
LEARNED HERE

SKM PowerTools · EasyPower · energy storage design · documentation systems · being the escalation point for a team.

APR 2017
JUL 2013
LEFT DURING THIS PERIOD
Rohit RattaninSolar Design Lead, Lodestone EnergyAUG 2011 – DEC 2015
JOINED THE STORY HERE
Sugreev SharmaCURRENT · NOT A REFERENCEDirector, Pearce Renewables2013 – PRESENT

Project Manager

NATRON RESOURCES INC.
India entity: Natron Energy Pvt. Ltd. · president: Jeffrey H. Ansley
24 AUG 2011 – JUN 2013
CHANDIGARH → AGRAON-SITE → WFHFULL NIGHT SHIFT
▾ DETAIL
  • Full CAD sheet sets for commercial, utility-scale and residential PV — site plans, array layouts, single-line and three-line diagrams, wire sizing, structural details.
  • Took ownership of the company's proprietary Excel electrical calculation engine; added features and a warning system flagging any result in disagreement with code.
  • Hired as one of a cohort of diploma-holding drafters.
LEARNED HERE

Fluent AutoCAD, learned by watching Rohit Rattan · NEC wiring schedules · PVsyst · US design conventions.

JUN 2013
AUG 2011
LEFT DURING THIS PERIOD
Gayrajan (Raj) KohliinCIO, Telios Land PartnersAUG 2011 – JUN 2012
Gautam BagriinManaging Director, Outright Solar Pvt LtdAUG 2011 – MID 2012
JOINED THE STORY HERE — STAYED LONGEST
Jeffrey H. Ansley, PECURRENT · NOT A REFERENCEPrincipal Engineer, Pearce Renewables2011 – PRESENT
Rohit RattaninSolar Design Lead, Lodestone EnergyAUG 2011 – DEC 2015

Assistant Electronics Engineer, R&D / CAD Designer

NANOBRIGHT SOLAR TECHNOLOGIES PVT. LTD.
JUL 2009 – 20 AUG 2011
HYDERABADON-SITEFIRST JOB
▾ DETAIL
  • 2D and 3D CAD models for PV mounting structures, power plant layouts and wiring diagrams.
  • Designed and installed solar PV systems, street lighting and solar blinkers.
  • LED billboard lighting, circuit test kits and prototypes.
  • 3 W solar LED lantern — CAD work, and the test kits used to check the 13,000-unit production run for the Assam State Electricity Board.
LEARNED HERE

Basic CAD · 3D modelling · PV structures · field installation · LED driver product development · prototype-to-production. The NEC was named here by an outside advisor, Rao N R, but not taught — that came later, at Natron.

AUG 2011
JUL 2009
LEFT WHEN I LEFT — OR BEFORE
Gurucharan ReddyinDeputy Manager — Design & Engineering, Enfinity GlobalJUL 2009 – 2011
Madhu PinDeputy Manager, Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL)JUL 2009 – 2011
Kushvendra SinghinManager — Design & Engineering, ib vogt GmbH2006 – 2011
Bhanu Pratap RanainManager — Electrical (Renewable), Samsung C&T2006 – 2011
Sai Charan KuppiliinTechnical Director, Jinko SolarJUL 2009 – APR 2011

Diploma in Electronics

TECHNICAL COLLEGE, DAYALBAGH EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE
2006 – 2009 · GRADE A, WITH DISTINCTION
AGRAON CAMPUS
▾ DETAIL
  • Studied alongside Kushvendra Singh; prepared for exams together — he taught mathematics and communications, I taught computers.
LEARNED HERE

Electronics fundamentals. Highest formal qualification held — entered after Grade 10.

2009
2006
FROM COLLEGE ONWARD
Kushvendra SinghinManager — Design & Engineering, ib vogt GmbH2006 – 2011
Bhanu Pratap RanainManager — Electrical (Renewable), Samsung C&T2006 – 2011
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