David Blittersdorf
President/CEO
Directly involved in every aspect of AllEarth Renewables' day-to-day operations, David brings to the company a lifetime of passion for, and a career’s-worth of experience in, bringing practical, economically sound on-site renewable energy solutions to homeowners and businesses. In 1982 when the wind industry was in its infancy, David founded NRG Systems, his first entrepreneurial venture that grew into an internationally recognized leader in wind measurement technology. Twenty-two years later, David stepped down as CEO of NRG Systems to kick-off his second entrepreneurial venture, AllEarth Renewables, a start-up company dedicated to the development, manufacture and deployment of residential-scale, grid-connected renewable energy systems.
Doug Goldsmith
Chief Operating Officer
Doug likes a challenge - whether he's hiking the Green Mountains, running after his two young children, or orchestrating AllEarth Renewables' multi-disciplined team to produce renewable energy systems. Doug is a flexible yet highly organized part of the AllEarth Renewables' management team, and despite his engineering background, his responsibilities as Chief Operating Officer include all things business-related.
John Miller
Director of Engineering
It's no surprise that one of the oldest members of the team has also been around the longest. In 1981, John Miller was a graduate student in mechanical engineering at the University of Vermont and David Blittersdorf was a senior with a passion for wind. The two met through John’s graduate studies on the pollution of Lake Champlain and his work to measure wind speeds coming off the lake.
Bill Kanzer
Director of Marketing and Sales
While discovering what Earth Day was all about at age 10, Bill instinctively knew that protecting the environment was imperative. It has been his driving passion ever since, spending nearly his entire career developing and promoting solar energy.
Joyce Dicianna
Director of Human Resources
Joyce Dicianna enjoys harnessing the power of entrepreneurial spirits. She has 30 years of experience nurturing creative minds and launching great ideas - while balancing the necessary organization, goals, and demands required to run a corporate entity.
Andrew Savage
Director of Communications and Public Affairs
As his family cut and hauled cords of wood to heat their drafty 200 year-old farmhouse truck-load by truck-load, Andrew developed a deep appreciation for the role of energy and energy efficiency in our daily lives at an early age.
Bret Benner
Mechanical Engineer
For Bret, working at AllEarth Renewables puts him closer to his passion of designing and constructing wind turbines. At the age of 11 he built his first wind turbine with his grandfather in their New Haven shed. Constructed of wood blades and a car alternator, his first turbine was built and rebuilt until he determined the proper gear ratios to spin the alternator and produce electricity for his TV and stereo.
Caleb Elder
Sales
Caleb Elder joined the AllEarth Renewables team excited for the opportunity to promote renewable energy and bring ownership to the local level.
Chris Johnson
Mechanical Engineer
As the need for renewable energy sources has grown over the last several years, so has Chris’s interest in new energy technologies.
Chris Tall
Special Projects Engineer
Chris arrived here by way of NRG Systems, where he was introduced to wind energy and worked for 13 years. Chris started at NRG in electronics production; he subsequently served as manufacturing manager and purchasing manager and was instrumental in the design and construction of the 110 Riggs Road building. He was attracted to AllEarth Renewables by the opportunity to return to fundamental design and help build a new company.
Dawn Morgan
Accounting Manager
Prior to joining the team at AllEarth Renewables, Dawn worked in a very different part of the world - Niger, West Africa. While in Africa, she organized government-recognized village co-operatives and developed an accounting system appropriate for use by non-literate members of the co-ops.
Doug MacDonald
Electrical Technician
Doug brings to AER more than a decade of experience in the energy industry after working in the electrical controls design field for Lucent Technologies and Northern Power Systems. In his seven years at Northern Power, he worked on wind, solar and hybrid power system projects in Antarctica, Russia, Northern Yukon, the Northwest Territory and many locations throughout the United States. Since joining AER in 2007, he is happy to work more locally designing and overseeing the construction of our larger solar tracker farms in the state. Doug received his bachelor’s degree in environmental sciences from the University of Maine, Orono.
Eric Bornemann
Mechanical Engineer
Eric has been working with machinery and in manufacturing for most of his life, from his early jobs as a welder and fabricator, through college design projects involving a compost turner and a firewood processor, and now with AllEarth Renewables as a mechanical engineer specializing in lean manufacturing systems.
James Stoops
Production Coordinator
James was hooked on wind power as a young boy while visiting his grandfather in Southern California. That’s where he saw his first large wind farm and when he decided that he wanted to become involved with renewable energy.
Jeff Chapman
Field Technician
Jeff first learned about wind energy while attending grammar school when an old wind-powered gristmill in his home town of Fairfield, Connecticut was renovated. The blades of the windmill were never installed, but Jeff’s interest in wind energy was ignited by the project.
John Dunham
Manufacturing Technician
John’s mild interest in renewable energy turned into an obsession during his junior year in college when he was inspired to do his senior project on biomass gasification for transportation. In fact, he was so inspired that in his spare time, he converted a vehicle for his own use. When he arrived at his interview driving a small pickup powered by a wood stove, we were pretty confident we had found our newest team member.
Keith Epstein
Mechanical Engineer
Keith realized he would eventually work in the renewable energy field after his interest was sparked by a class he took at Cornell University. While earning his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, Keith was a member of a Cornell team of 30 students that designed and built racecars for an international competition. He also undertook a summer research product in China where he learned to speak a little Mandarin.
Mark Klonicke
Field and Shop Technician
Mark’s mission is to have a minimal impact on the earth. That goal was reinforced while working at Merck Forest in Rupert, VT, living off-grid in a remote log cabin for one year while installing a residential wind turbine and a simple PV system. It was there that he decided to pursue a career with alternative energy sources.
Meghan Dewald
Executive Assistant
A personal commitment to sustainable energy motivated Meghan to join our team. Until recently, she relied solely on public transportation, car pooling and her own two feet to get her where she needed to go. She is deeply interested in sustainable architecture, and hopes to someday build a straw bale or cob home.
Richard Hopwood
Field Supervisor
Dick came to AER to take part in solving the world’s energy problems and now leads our field crews in the installation and repair of our renewable energy systems. His friends describe him as easy-going, level-headed, and always positive - qualities that served him well in one of his previous jobs as a ski patrol supervisor and that translate well to his present job with us: trouble-shooting in the field and communicating with our customers.
Seth Maciejowski
Embedded Systems Engineer
Seth’s passion for wind energy grew after watching Vermont’s first commercial wind farm being developed in Searsburg, Vermont. It wasn’t long after this first encounter that visiting large scale wind farms became something of a personal hobby. Over the years, Seth has visited wind farms in Germany, Altamont Pass (CA), and the Gaspe Peninsula in Canada.
Steve Miller
Field Technician
For Steve, working at AllEarth Renewables brings him closer to his passion for renewable energy. The idea of bringing renewable energy to homeowners and making it affordable to people has great appeal to him. Growing up, Steve lived in a house with solar panels on the roof that provided hot water for his home. Living “green” was something that was instilled on him by his parents. This passion stuck with him throughout college at the University of Vermont where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in outdoor recreation management from the School of Natural Resources.
Tarakanita Boestan
Accounting Associate
If there was an award for the person who traveled the farthest to be on the AER team, Tarakanita would win. Born and raised in Jakarta, Indonesia, she began her accounting career at Bank Bali as a customer representative and quickly earned a promotion to Marketing Specialist. Relocation to California found her enrolled at Cal State Fullerton, where she earned a BA in Accounting.
Will King
Sales
Selling Solar Trackers just comes naturally to Will who grew up under solar panels in a home that was partially powered by the sun. He was taught from a young age about the value of using renewable energy to heat and energize your home and living lightly and responsibly on the earth. He is delighted to be in a position to help others figure out how to do the same.