Meet Our Utility Program Consultants and Energy Data Experts

Team

Meet our expert technologists, analysts, consultants and leaders.

Click on the employee’s name to read their bio.

Kevin Bricknell

Senior Advisor

As a Calico Senior Advisor, Kevin leverages his extensive experience in managed energy data services to advise customers, helping with program design and growth, marketing strategy and coordination across energy efficiency programs. He acts as a subject matter expert and coordinator, aligning the Calico expertise to customer needs. Before Calico and ComEd, Kevin was rock music critic and photographer – he’s attended over 325 concerts.

Read Kevin’s full expert bio here.

Corby Burkmier

Senior Consultant

Corby brings unmatched experience in direct load control and Nest demand response programs as Calico’s Senior Consultant. She meets with vendors, keeps programs running smoothly and appreciates the technical details and requirements. Corby intimately understands the energy sector: its highly regulated nature and capacity for growth. She loves the beach.

Read Corby’s full expert bio here.

Ilya Dubovis

Senior Software Engineer

In Calico I am responsible for design and development of the Whole Building Benchmarking project.

I am a senior full-stack developer with 20+ years of experience in developing financial and engineering applications.

In my free time I enjoy bicycle rides with my family, reading and watching documentaries, and playing with my African Grey parrot.

Read Corby’s full expert bio here.

Robert Entenman

Engineering Manager

Robert oversees Calico’s deployed infrastructure and services for internal and external customers as Engineering Manager. On any given day, he reviews code, manages technical details on projects and provides organization-wide IT support. Robert enjoys spending time with his wife and young son and long distance running. He’s a rabid consumer of cookies, movies, games and more.

Marcus Ferron

Senior Engineer

Marcus supports Calico’s applications and new product implementations as one of our Senior Engineers. He interfaces directly with customers to define needs and deliver quality development work, in both .NET and c#. Outside of work, Marcus plays (and watches!) basketball, he enjoys running, and going to plays and movies.

Tica Gordon

HR Manager

Tica brings over 25 years of experience in leading and fulfilling strategic human resources responsibilities as Calico’s HR Manager. Her strengths in culture-building, managing through change, people development, coaching and more have made her an integral part of growing the Calico team.

Matthew Haak

Engagement Director

As Calico’s Engagement Director, Matthew provides subject matter expertise, project leadership and team management to make every customer initiative and technical undertaking successful. He brings both deep industry knowledge and an extensive understanding of utility systems. Matthew enjoys spending time with his family, and loves anything related to race cars.

Read Matthew’s full expert bio here.

Andrea Klem

Staff Accountant

About Andrea

Andrea’s role as Staff Accountant includes full cycle accounting, financial statement prep, reporting and more. She works closely with Calico’s Controller to keep the business running seamlessly and she’s always up to learn a new tool or process. Andrea enjoys long walks, collecting antique jars and watching an episode (or two) of American Greed.

Peter Konstant

Senior Engineer

About Peter

Peter brings project management, software and vendor relations experience to Calico as Senior Engineer. He focuses on IOT applications, Alexa Smart Home Skills and Arduino and Azure platforms. Peter enjoys playing tennis, reading the Sunday paper and spending time with his family.

Megan Lavelle

Senior Designer

About Megan

As Senior Designer for Calico, Megan works with both the product and marketing teams to bridge Calico’s visual communications. She is responsible for providing customers with prototypes, building internal design systems, and supporting marketing with strategy and design. Megan has an ongoing art practice and enjoys spending time outside with her daughter and partner.

Kimberly Maddux

Controller

About Kimberly

Kimberly brings 27+ years of experience to her role as Calico’s Controller. She oversees the entire accounting department, managing payroll, budgeting, audit prep and more – and at every step she works closely with Management and Executive teams, as well as the Board, to deliver thorough reporting. Kimberly loves gardening, vegetables specifically, in the summer, and obsessing over jigsaw puzzles in the winter.

Colleen Morris

President and CEO

About Colleen

As CEO, Colleen makes sure her team is set up for success so they can do exceptional work for Calico’s customers. Among other responsibilities, Colleen focuses on hiring great people, maintaining a culture of transparency and ensuring strategic alignment — she loves working across functional areas and solving problems. She’s a self-professed “horse person,” wife and mother of two boys.

Read Colleen’s full expert bio here.

Grace Pastore

Marketing Manager

About Grace

As Calico’s Marketing Manager, Grace is responsible for content development, from writing through review and design. She also supports Calico’s growing Sales, Business Development and PR efforts, translating high-level business needs into useful sales and marketing tools for the team at large. Grace wears multiple hats, from designer to copywriter and content strategist. She’s also a dedicated relief printmaker, seamstress and plant mom.

Inder Raul

Lead Engineer

About Inder

As Lead Engineer, Inder provides expert support on wide variety of data issues, helping utility and vendor teams understand complex information, how to process data and more. He monitors and maintains multiple data feeds, and interfaces closely with program managers and vendors to accomplish goals. Inder is a movie buff and he loves Topo Chico mineral water.

Kate Roberts

Technical Analyst

About Kate

As Technical Analyst, Kate provides customer and technical support for implementations of Calico’s Benchmarking Application and demand response programs. Kate brings experience in commercial real estate benchmarking and she enjoys partnering with customers to impart knowledge and expertise on complicated topics. She’s a yoga enthusiast and loves stand-up and concerts.

Read Kate’s full expert bio here.

Justin Schmidt

Senior Consultant

About Justin

As a Senior Consultant, Justin works with customer and vendors teams to address the systems and processes needed for the successful execution of Demand Response programs. He’s dedicated to building bridges in the industry and enjoys engaging across teams. Justin loves home (and vehicle) improvement projects, too.

Juliana Smith

Product Manager

About Juliana

As Product Manager, Juliana works with customers to provide project management, documentation review, quality assurance, requirements write-up and issue resolution support. Her varied skills in business and technical analysis mean that she’s able to adapt to customer needs. Juliana loves soccer, hiking with her husband and kids and podcasts.

Ken Walsh

Senior Advisor

About Ken

As Senior Advisor, Ken helps advise and consult with electric utilities on how to better operate their demand response programs. Ken recently retired from ComEd after 31 years of service, a career spent managing demand response programs for both residential and commercial customers. Ken enjoys spending time with hiswife, two daughters and chihuahua Bindy.

Aleeza Webb

Business Analyst

About Aleeza

As Business Analyst, Aleeza helps customers, and the internal Calico team, research market and product trends, document product requirements, perform user acceptance testing and
develop internal procedures. She enjoys analyzing systems and finding the most efficient
path forward. She’s an avid baker and French macaron expert; one day she hopes to open a bakery!