Mr. Roose is a tenured faculty member of the Hawaiʻi Natural Energy Institute (HNEI), University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where he formed and has led for over a decade HNEI’s GridSTART (Grid System Technologies Advanced Research Team), a team of professionals focused on energy transition enabling policy and regulation, advanced grid architectures, grid modernization technologies, and novel methods to achieve reliable grid integration of RE resources, power system optimization and energy resilience goals.He served in numerous leadership roles at the Hawaiian Electric Company for 19 years prior including management of renewable energy planning and integration, generation resource planning and competitive procurement, negotiation and administration of all power purchase agreements for the utility, transmission and distribution system planning, smart grid planning and projects, system relaying and protection, and fuel purchase and supply to all utility generating plants. He is a licensed attorney, formerly in private law practice in Hawaiʻi and served as Associate General Counsel at Hawaiian Electric. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a J.D. from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.