Team Bios Charlie Ramos Mr. Ramos has over 19 years of engineering experience. He is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of BioGreen Engineering, LLC.  Mr. Ramos specializes in assisting clients involved in anaerobic digestion and GHG emission reduction projects with assessing, developing, implementing, fine-tuning, and executing projects that maximize business profitability while reducing harmful GHG emissions.  Prior to founding BioGreen Engineering, Mr. Ramos was one of the technical experts and pillars for AgCert International and AES Climate Solutions, one of the largest mass producers of GHG emission reduction credits from agricultural sources such as swine, dairy, and POME anaerobic digestion systems.  He gained a vast amount of anaerobic digestion system design and operation expertise while serving as the Engineering Director, Pilot Program Director, Performance Improvement Manager, and Global Asset Management Manager.  While at AgCert International and AES Climate Solutions, Mr. Ramos provided corporate guidance, vision, leadership, management, and problem- solving efforts for over 700 worldwide anaerobic digestion systems/renewable energy projects.  He was also in charge of determining the technical, commercial, and economic viability of renewable energy technologies/products as well as the performance improvement programs.  He has co-authored several technical articles and is a co-inventor for seven patents.  Charlie is fluent in English, Spanish, and conversational Portuguese. Dwight D. Back, Ph.D. Dr. Back received his bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Dayton, Ohio, in 1984, and his master’s and doctorate degrees from the University of Notre Dame in 1986 and 1989, respectively.    Dr. Back’s Ph.D. dissertation was in the area of heat transfer, mass transfer, reaction kinetics, and fluid mechanics.  He has been a key innovator for small and large companies in the private and public sectors, including EG&G and Monsanto (Department of Energy contractors), Cordis Corporation (a medical device franchise of Johnson & Johnson), and Mainstream Engineering Corporation, and is currently a consultant to the medical device and biofuels industries.  Over the past 22 years, Dr. Back has made numerous contributions to process, materials, and product development across a broad spectrum of technology areas.  He has published more than 100 technical articles and is inventor on 20 U.S. patents.  He is a member of the honorary engineering societies Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Xi, and a charter officer of the East-Central Florida AIChE section.  John Meyer Mr. Meyer graduated with his BS degree in biology and environmental science in 1991 and obtained his master’s degree in environmental science from Florida Institute of Technology in 1994.  Mr. Meyer’s laboratory experience was first accrued by acting as a lead analytical scientist for Brevard Teaching and Research Laboratory. From 1996 through 2007, Mr. Meyer served as Research Scientist at Mainstream Engineering.  In this position, Mr. Meyer accrued experience in fluorescent detection technologies, material science, carbon nanotube technology and fabrication, electrochemical technologies, water chemistry, microbiological analysis, organic analysis, and computational chemistry modeling.  Since 2007, Mr. Meyer has served as technical lead for the Harris Corporation Materials and Processes Laboratory.  In this position, Mr. Meyer performs polymer analysis for a large number of Government programs with focus on identifying and assessing epoxy, urethane, silicone, and other polymers for space and military programs.  Mr. Meyer has over 15 years of laboratory experience, and has made contributions to chemical analytical science, fluorescent detection technologies, material science, polymer analysis, and process development for a very wide array of private and Government customers.  Mr. Meyer has joined BioGreen Engineering as a materials scientist and continues to cultivate expertise in material detection and polymer science. Maria Speder Ms. Speder has over 20 years of analytical, operational, and writing experience.  She specializes in environmental research and analysis and is an expert in writing project proposals and PDDs.  Ms. Speder is the regulatory analytical expert at BioGreen Engineering.  In this capacity, she assists companies involved in GHG emission reduction and renewable energy projects in applying the appropriate regulatory mechanisms and compliance.  Prior to BioGreen Ms. Speder worked with AgCert International and AES Climate Solutions.  She gained a vast amount of CDM and JI regulatory and methodological expertise while serving as a Senior Technical Writer and Climate Change Regulatory Analysis Manager. While at AgCert International and AES Climate Solutions, Ms. Speder wrote over 120 PDDs and guided those projects through the validation and registration processes.  Of the PDDs written, 121 have been registered as CDM projects to date.  She has also co-authored several published technical articles. Nidal Samad Nidal joined BioGreen Engineering as a senior research engineer in 2011.  His previous years of experience spanned product and process development, project management, technology testing and problem solving in various chemical waste and environmental applications.  Nidal was the director of research and development and was an expert panel member for the development of testing protocol for NSF International.  He serves as an industrial advisory board member for the chemical engineering department at Florida Tech.  During his career, Nidal developed many various innovative methods and holds 22 patents most of which are related to the treatment of wastewater.  Mr. Samad holds a BS in Chemistry from the Lebanese University and BS and MS degrees in Chemical Engineering and Environmental Science from the Florida Institute of Technology. Ray Jones Mr. Jones has over 21 years of experience in agriculture and 6 years’ experience in CDM carbon credit methodologies and methodological calculations, with emphasis on swine and dairy anaerobic digestion of livestock waste.  He is BioGreen’s Chief Scientist on renewable energy and GHG reduction projects. Prior to BioGreen Engineering, Mr. Jones was the senior scientist technical expert for AgCert International and AES Climate Solutions. He gained a vast amount of renewable energy and biogas expertise while serving as the Senior Scientist, responsible for developing and implementing comprehensive calculators for many CDM methodologies as well as the developing and implementing software for monitoring and assessing anaerobic digester performance for swine, dairy and POME anaerobic digesters as well landfill projects.  He has co-authored several peer-reviewed technical papers in journals such as Journal of Environmental Quality on such areas as nitrous oxide emissions and assessment of soil emissions models. Bill Herrington Mr. Herrington has over 40 years' experience in the power industry.  He has negotiated numerous power purchase agreements representing the seller and purchaser on various occasions.  Mr. Herrington's early career involved the operation and maintenance of power plants and he is familiar with the variables impacting plant operation and regulatory compliance.  He also has experience in the negotiating of fuel supply agreements having been involved in fuel supply agreements with coal, liquid and natural gas fuels.  Additionally, Mr. Herrington has provided numerous financial feasibility studies in utility related areas.  Mr. Herrington has a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Masters in Business Administration.  Mr. Herrington is a registered Professional Engineer.

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