Mr. Kessler is a Senior Product Line Manager for Itron and past Director of Smart Grid Technology for Public Service New Mexico Resources (PNMR), responsible for the Smart-Grid and Advanced Metering Technology. Mr. Kessler has more than a decade of technical project management experience working for companies such as Boeing Aerospace, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, AT&T Wireless and Public Service New Mexico. His work has covered a broad range of products and technologies, from cellular telephony to robotic boiler inspection and power line phasing techniques. His technology experience includes such activities as building robotic wall crawlers for boilers, power line phasing devices and intelligent electronic devices for substation and grid monitoring. Mr. Kessler is co-inventor on several patents of innovative technology for the cellular and power industries. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington, earned a PMI project management certification while at HP, is Six-Sigma Black-Belt trained and holds a Six-Sigma Quality certification from the Galvin Institute.