WRSC Personnel

Peter Meisen (President and Director)
 

Mr. Meisen is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego (1976) with an Applied Mechanics and Engineering Sciences degree. Meisen founded GENI in 1989 to conduct research and educate world leaders to the strategy of linking renewable energy resources around the world. He is an internationally recognized speaker on the global issues of renewable energy, transmission and distribution of electricity, quality of life and its relationship to electricity, the environment and sustainable development.
 
Peter is a member of the following professional associations: IEEE Power Engineering Society, World Affairs Council of San Diego, Union of Concerned Scientists, United Nations Association, and is an Honorary member of the Rancho Bernardo Sunrise Rotary Club. In 1983, he co-founded S.H.A.R.E. (Self Help and Resource Exchange), North America's largest private food distribution program.

 

 

Mr. Paul-Michael Dekker (Research, Information Technology Director)

 
Mr. Dekker received a degree in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada), in 1980. He joined the GENI organization in September of 1993 and is IT Director. He speaks locally about the GENI Initiative and writes occasionally on specific technical projects (GENI WMS Server, The GENI Model). He worked for nine years with UNISYS (Winnipeg, Manitoba), and one year with the Board of Education of the City of York (Toronto, Ontario). He is a principal of Green Star Standard, a Life Cycle Assessment consultantcy. Locally, he serves as on the Boord for the Sustainability Alliance of Southern California, where he advocates sustainable community policies. He actively participates on the Energy and Water Committee and Green Products Committee of the San Diego Regional Sustainability Partnership. He is a former member of the IEEE and is a member of the San Diego Chapter of the Institute of Management Consultants.

 

 

Patrica Stevens
 

Inspired by serving in the Peace Corps in Nigeria, Ms. Stevens subsequently received an MSc in Food Technology from the University of Washington in 1971 and worked for several years in the non-profit arena on international food development projects. She spent 15 years in the personal growth and performance field as a center manager and seminar leader for Werner Erhard and Associates and later as Vice President of Operations for a startup company, Motivating the Teen Spirit. Ms. Stevens was the Executive Director of GENI in 1995 and 1996. She rejoined GENI in 2006 as an independent contractor in research, editing, organization, web assistance, and intern/volunteer coordination. Her main hobby is photography (http://psc.jalbum.net/).

 

 

Glen Shewchuck (It and Web Development)

 
Glen has worked in the corporate and NGO (non-government organization) sectors since 1986. He graduated from Cal Poly Pomona with a B.Sc. in Computer Science and has worked in many different positions throughout the industry: as programmer, analyst, system administration, Oracle database administrator, SAP administrator, website developer and administrator, as well as small business owner.

 

At GENI, Glen works on multiple computer tasks and on web development with Drupal for www.wrsc.org and www.geni.org.