Maya is a Boulder native recently returning after 11 years of living abroad in Sweden, New Zealand, Australia, and France. She graduated with a Bachelors of Commerce and Management Consulting in Renewable infrastructure and Strategic Partnerships from the University of Technology Sydney.

Following her studies, Maya worked to diversify a telecommunications company and was instrumental in a full roll-out of Tesla charging infrastructure on the west coast of Australia.

Maya’s passion for nature and environmental conservation led her to focus on all things sustainable. She started a successful organic and plastic-free lip balm brand in Australia called Maya Organics.  At IPS, Maya is highly adept at leading commercial projects through to completion, developing mutually beneficial strategic partnerships, and working with clients to maximize financial returns on investments. 

Jay Lu is the Staff Accountant and joined the IPS team in late May 2018. He graduated from CU Boulder in December 2017 with double majors in accounting and finance as an undergraduate and accounting emphasis for his Masters’ degree. Jay manages all accounting activities for Colorado, Montana, and Massachusetts operations, including accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll, vendor and bank statement reconciliation, sales tax filings, and record-keeping. In his free time, Jay enjoys soccer, badminton, puzzles, and traveling.

Rick Roser is the longest-term employee with IPS, with over 11 years of being part of the family and 20 years of electrical experience. Rick is a licensed journeyman and our lead electrician and service technician. He has extensive experience with both grid-tied, off-grid, commercial, and residential systems. He is our in-house expert for electrical code and installation technique. Rick has worked on IPS installations all over the world. Prior to his employment with IPS, Rick spent nearly ten years – from December 1994 – April 2004 – in the Colorado Army National Guard, attached to the 169th Field Artillery Brigade, as a Heavy Vehicle Operator and Ammunitions Specialist.

Jeremy is a Mechanical Engineer and Applied Mathematician from the University of Colorado Boulder. As a sales engineer, Jeremy looks to bridge the gap between operations and sales by designing residential and commercial systems to meet IFC requirements, wind loads, roof strengths, as well as the client’s needs. Jeremy’s hobbies include snowboarding and basketball. In high school, Jeremy played semi-professional basketball for 2 years while he was in Switzerland. As both the youngest, tallest and worst-grammared IPS employee, Jeremy’s lifelong goal is to beat the T/ACO record for most tacos eaten in an hour.

Kristin was born in Oklahoma and raised in Kansas. She studied psychology at Friends University of Kansas and was very active as a dual athlete in volleyball and track. Being raised in the country with roots in cooking and the environment she developed a passion for farm to table sustainability and eventually attended Le Cordon Bleu in Chicago. She has spent several years working in sustainable culinary shops and restaurants and enjoys all things cooking (but baking not so much). In her free time, she is training to run the Four Pass Loop in Aspen, and in general loves hiking, camping, and spending time with her husband and her adorable 5-year-old son.

Shaun has been a solar installer for 4 years and an employee at IPS for 1. Installing solar is tough work but someone has to do it, right? Shaun takes great pride in making solar happen on rooftops around Colorado and feels good about what he does for a living. Outside of work, he enjoys playing music. Shaun plays the drums in a local band called the Amphibious Man that plays in shows all over the Boulder/Denver area. Shaun also loves the great Colorado outdoors: camping, hiking, climbing, and after a hot day, cooling off in the Boulder Creek.

Christian graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2015 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and quickly found out how rewarding the solar industry was. He joined as a PV System designer and drafter and has worked on projects ranging from custom off-grid to utility scale. Christian is experienced with complex PV and energy storage electrical design as well as generating financial return scenarios for commercial projects dealing with peak shaving, demand response, and energy arbitrage. His passions outside of work include connecting authentically, wood-working, mountain biking, climbing, and soccer. He flies around in a blue mini-van named Appa the Sky Bison so he can fit more people and activities in his life, but mostly because it’s rad stylish.

Tony is the owner and CEO of Independent Power Systems, a renewable energy design and installation company he founded in 1996. He holds a BSEE from the University of Massachusetts and is a licensed Professional Engineer and Master Electrician. His fascination with photovoltaics (PV) began when he was studying optoelectronics in college and was furthered upon his first witnessing a working solar panel powering a water pump at a remote mountain hut. That was the moment of enlightenment that set him on a path to realizing this amazing and disruptive technology—one that delivers electrical power wherever the sun shines—with no moving parts, no pollution, and no dependence on anything else.

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Ryan Beaver is a Journeyman Electrician with 15 years of experience and has known he wanted to be an electrician since he was a child. He wired his first house when he was 12, got his first electrical summer job at 14, and got his first full-time job at 17. Ryan was born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma where he was homeschooled and took an electrical course at Tulsa Tech while in high school. As a senior in high school, he participated in one of the biggest electrical competitions in the world and placed first in Oklahoma and eighth nationally. His hobbies include camping, kayaking, kickball, dodgeball, volleyball, and watching sports. BOOMER SOONER and THUNDER UP.

Phil is an IPS Solar Consultant. With a Bachelor’s degree from Bucknell University and background in tech sales in Chicago, he is happy to now be working in his hometown of Boulder. He is passionate about beach volleyball, skiing, and hiking. Phil has a heart for sustainability and loves helping his customers go solar.

Yolanda Duperret has extensive experience in developing budgets and working collaboratively with organizational leaders to create strategies, policies, and procedures in support of achieving company goals. She has over 20 years of solid financial reporting and interpretive analysis which makes her particularly adept at efficiently identifying company strengths and weaknesses and implementing solutions throughout the organization at the level of detail necessary to influence sustainable change. Prior to IPS, she worked in the international financial markets and traveled extensively throughout Latin America as Sales Business Development director for CoBank where she was responsible for a $1 billion loan portfolio. She holds a Masters Degree in Finance/Accounting from Thunderbird School of Global Management and is fluent in Spanish, French, and Portuguese. She is an avid supporter of anything that ends with “ies”:  babies, puppies, bees, (and batteries). To that end, she enjoys spending time with her four children (two of them are furry), beekeeping, and aligning herself with organizations such as CO Rising and 350.org to support common-sense measures that protect the health and safety of our communities and transition them sustainably towards a renewable economy.

Nicolas Duperret is a Sales Engineer at IPS currently earning his Physics degree at CU Boulder with a discipline in Astro Physics. He has previously worked as a Ski Patroller at Winter Park, a salesman for CUTCO, an activities guide at Devil’s Thumb Ranch, and a solar installer for IPS. He is involved in the CU Boulder Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA) and is trilingual (French, English, and Spanish). Nico is an avid skier/ snowboarder in the winter, hiking/ mountain biking in the summer and a big ‘ole fan of dogs.