George Stolz (Chief Moderator 2009) (georgestolz)

George Stolz is a journeyman electrician who began in the trade in 2002. His first four years of experience focused mainly on residential projects; mostly mid-grade tract housing, apartment complexes, a swimming pool or two, and a few custom homes with some networking and home theater mixed in.

Providentially, he found employment with a large commercial electrical contracting shop just prior to the local housing market's decline, and has been working on mostly commercial projects including schools, human and veterinary hospitals, retail and warehouse spaces, fire alarm, and refrigeration control systems and power. George has served as a shop NEC instructor and has served in his company's safety committee, where he focused primarily on relevant code changes as they pertain to customer and employee safety.

His hobbies include hiking, bicycling, camping, travel and chatting with fellow electricians from work and from here on Mike Holt's Forum.

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Roger Deas (Chief Moderator 2008) (roger)

Roger started the electrical trade in 1973 pre-wiring houses and installing underground services for telephone. Most of his electrical career has been in hospital and health care facilities and he's done school, residential and industrial work.

Roger holds an unlimited license in NC and is employed as a Project Manager for a company he has been with since 1989. Hobbies include building furniture and vegetable gardening.

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Bob Badger (Chief Moderator 2007) (iwire)

By age 14 Bob was in electrical trade School, it was a natural fit of his interests and abilities. In 1981 Bob started earning a living in the trade. The first company Bob worked for was a single man shop; they did light commercial and residential. After a few years he moved on to a larger shop and started running work that was typically multi unit condo jobs. By 1991 construction work had slowed so Bob took a job with an amusement park as their electrician. There he was involved with all aspects of the maintenance of the park. That lasted 5 years until the park closed and Bob moved on to his present employer of 10 years. He now works for a large Electrical Contractor in MA as a Project superintendent and service technician. He is typically found doing light industrial, large and small retail along with high Tech office space.

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Charlie Beck (Chief Moderator 2006) (charlie b)

Charlie Beck is a Licensed Professional Engineer with BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering. He is also a Licensed Electrical Administrator in the State of Washington. Most of his nine years in the US Navy was focused on the operation and maintenance of shipboard electrical and electronic systems. He has been a design engineer and a consultant to the electrical industry for nineteen years. His experience includes assignments as the Chief Engineer for a large electrical contracting company and as an electrical Project Manager for several large Architect Engineering firms. For the two years preceding his move to the Great Northwest, he was the co-owner of a professional design firm in the Midwest.

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Don Ganiere (Chief Moderator 2005) (don_resqcapt19)

Don began his apprenticeship in 1973 after completing an Associates in Science degree. As an apprentice he worked on multifamily residential, commercial and industrial projects. For the next few years he worked on mostly commercial projects. The last 12 years he has been assigned to industrial projects, mostly in the plastics industry. Don started teaching code changes and grounding classes for his local in 1981 and continues to do so. He is also an active member of a local fire/resuce service and has a Firefighter 3 certification.

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Bill Addis (Chief Moderator 2004) (bill addiss)

In the late 70s Bill worked in the Maintenance Dept of a large corporation that manufactured Avionics Test Equipment primarily for the U.S. Military. He was responsible for maintenance and repair in 2 of their Office/Test/Warehousing facilities totaling 500,000 square feet. Towards the end of his employment there he installed and maintained their first (HVAC) Energy Management System interconnecting all units and Buildings to a central computer system, and was responsible for monitoring and diagnosing problems to coordinate service and repair procedures with in-house and outside contractors. Since leaving there he has held a Master Electrician's License (Suffolk County, Long Island, NY) for 20 years doing mainly Residential and light Commercial work. In recent years he has had a number of (non-technical) articles published in CEE News and is the webmaster for Electrical-Contractor.net.

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Tom Baker (Chief Moderator 2001-2003) (tom baker)

Tom Baker is a Washington State Master Electrician and has a Bachelor of Science degree in Workforce Education. An electrician for 24 years, Tom offers electrical continuing education classes for local electricians and instructs in house classes for clients such as Ft Lewis Army Base, McCord Air Force Base, the City of Seattle and others. His experience includes process control, SCADA, roadway lighting, traffic signals, radio systems and water/waste water systems. Tom is the author of Code Corner, a regular article on the NEC for the International Municipal Signal Association Journal. He stills works as an electrician.

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Bob Alexander

Bob Alexander received his BSEE from Louisiana Tech University and is a Registered Professional Engineer in California. He has been involved with several major engineering and construction projects nationally and worldwide, primarily in the process and power generation industries. Currently, he owns a consulting firm specializing in classified (hazardous) location solutions, system reliability and electrical safety compliance.

He has served on several national technical and safety committees, including the NEC, NFPA 70E, NFPA’s Committee for Electrical Equipment in Chemical Atmospheres, the American Petroleum Institute’s Subcommittee on Electrical Equipment, and several IEEE/IAS/PCIC working task groups.

He has published / presented IEEE papers on IEC installations, classified (hazardous) locations and electrical reliability. He is a member of NFPA, IEEE and the NSPE.

Steve Arne (stevearne)

Steve Arne has been involved in the electrical industry since 1974 working in various positions from electrician to full-time instructor and department chair in technical post secondary education. Steve has developed curriculum for many electrical training courses and has developed university business and leadership courses. Currently, Steve offers occasional exam prep and Continuing Education Code classes.

Steve believes that as a teacher he understands the joy of helping others as they learn and experience new insights. His goal is to help others understand more of the technological marvels that surround us. Steve thanks God for the wonders of His creation and for the opportunity to share it with others.

Steve and his lovely wife Deb live in Rapid City, South Dakota where they are both active in their church and community. They have two grown children and five grandchildren.

Steve is Mike Holt’s Technical Editorial Director.

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Dereck Campbell (dereckbc)

Dereck Campbell is a Licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Oklahoma with a BS in Electrical Engineering. After graduating from Oklahoma State University in 1979 he began his career as an Relay Control and Substation Technician for Public Service Company of Oklahoma for one year, then transferred into the communications department as an Engineering Technician where her worked until 1989.

After leaving PSO he worked for Nortel as a Field Engineer until 1994 when he joined what now is called MCI/WorldCom. He started at MCI as an Installation Manager until 1996 when a critical need for Electrical Power Engineers was developed due to rapid growth. He quickly headed up the department and was in charge of all new DC power plant construction, lightning protection, protective grounding, power monitoring, and PQ audit responsibilities. After leaving MCI/WorldCom he currently works for Alltel as Building & Facility engineer.

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Charlie Eldridge (charlie)

Charlie was the Supervisor of the Major Overhead Projects Engineering Division at the Indianapolis Power & Light Company and retired after 38 years with the company. Charlie is now a consultant for the Indianapolis Power & Light Company, working with codes and standards and does some training. Charlie has been serving as an Edison Electric Institute member on Code Making Panel 10 for the National Electrical Code since 1993.

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Stephen Norako (stevenorako)

Stephen V. Norako is an active member of the IAEI. He served on the Executive Advisory Board of the New Jersey chapter of the International Association of Electrical Inspectors where he chaired the Code Clearing and Code Shop Committee and has also served on the Executive Committee of the Metropolitan Electrical League, chairing the Educational Program Committee. Steve is a member of the Industry Applications Society of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers, Inc.), the ISA (Instrument Society of America) & the Municipal Electrical Inspectors Association of New Jersey Inc.

He has over 30 years experience in the electrical industry and holds a BSEE from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

He regularly conducts seminars and training meetings on hazardous areas as defined by the National Electric Code Articles 500 through 516.

Steve is employed by EGS Electrical Group. EGS Electrical Group consists of such brand names as Appleton, O-Z/GEDNEY, ATX, ETP, Curlee, NEER, McGill and NELSON.

Stephen V. Norako has taught approved courses since 1994 for the continuing education program of construction code enforcement officials offered through The New Jersey Department of Community Affairs / Center for Government Services at Rutgers. The seminars have focused on NEC Article 500 - Hazardous (Classified) Areas.

Steve, having conducted several seminars and code updates for inspector groups, was originally approached by electrical subcode officials to conduct in depth educational seminars that would meet the State of New Jersey requirements

Karl Riley (karl riley)

Karl Riley is the author of "Tracing EMFs in Building Wiring and Grounding", a book written for electricians to help them locate and correct wiring errors which cause high magnetic fields in buildings. It also deals with eliminating currents on water pipes as allowed by Code.

Mr. Riley, a former science teacher, designed and marketed the MSI gaussmeters for measuring AC magnetic fields. He has sold the company and now does consulting exclusively. He created a video for California school electricians under a grant from the Cal. Health Services. It illustrates graphically some of the tracing techniques spelled out in his book. Mr Riley has been working with electricians to eliminate EMF-related errors since 1989. He has written many articles on the subject for professional journals, including Electrical Contractor.

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Bryan P. Holland (bphgravity)

Bryan Holland is a licensed Building Code Administrator, Inspector, and Plans Examiner in the state of Florida. Bryan currently works for the City of North Port Building Department and serves as Secretary to the Florida Chapter of the International Associations of Electrical Inspectors (IAEI). He also sits on the Building Officials Association of Florida, Building Code Interpretation Committee and frequently writes for the electrical newsletter, The Informer.

As a Florida / IAEI approved Continuing Education Provider and Certified Instructor, Bryan has taught for the Electrical Council of Florida Apprenticeship Program and holds seminars and courses on his own. Bryan also holds a Florida Registered Contractors License. In Bryan’s spare time, he volunteers at the Thomas Edison Winter Estates in Fort Myers Florida as a museum and laboratory docent.

Bryan is a member of the NFPA, IAEI, ICC, BOAF, and LPI.

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Robert “Trevor” Meier (infinity)

Rob has had an interest in the electrical trade since first working around the house with his dad, a journeyman electrician, as a young boy. Later, while in college, Rob took a job as a stagehand and rekindled his interest in the electrical field while working on a performing arts theatre modernization. After graduating from college he enrolled in an apprentice program and worked his way up to a journeyman electrician. He has also held the job titles of foreman and general foreman. Rob is a third generation electrician and has almost 25 years experience in residential, commercial, industrial, and utility network installations. He continues to work in and around the New York metropolitan area.

Rob, who also goes by the nickname Trevor, is a life long resident of Northern New Jersey.

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Chris Jensen (raider1)

Chris Jensen was introduced to the electrical trade at an early age. He was in his early teens when he would work summers at his grandfather’s electrical contracting company hauling material, digging trenches and performing general labor. In August of 1994 he received his Journeyman electricians licensed and in June of 2004 he received his Master electrician’s license. From 1990 to 2005 he worked as an electrician, until May of 2005 when he changed hats and became a combination inspector for North Logan City where he remains employed today. He has taught the electrical apprenticeship program for Bridgerland Applied Technology College , and is an active member of the Utah Chapter of the I.A.E.I and holds a position on the board.

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Jim Dungar (Jim Dungar)

Jim received his BSEE, with a power systems emphasis, from Michigan Tech University in 1978. Right out of engineering college he went to work for Square D Company as a field sales engineer calling on industrial customers. After earning his MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh in 1989, he spent 16 years working for a regional electrical wholesaler as a technical sales/application engineer. Jim is now employed as a power systems engineer with a national firm. While his home state is Wisconsin, he is also licensed as a Professional Engineer in several other states.

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