Andres is the CEO of CMG, a strategy and advisory consulting firm focus on Smart Energy, Smart Utilities, Smart Cities, and Smart Buildings. Andres is a MARC Fellow, Professor of Innovation in the College of Science & Engineering, and Co-Director of CIEDAR Center at Texas State University. And an Editor of 41 Power Engineering, Telecom/ IoT, and Building Technologies titles at Artech House. And a ASME, CABA, IEEE, IIC, SAE, SEMI, SEPA, and SIM member. Andres is an award-winning engineer, speaker, author, editor, and executive. Andres is globally recognized by the IEEE as one of the early developers of the smart grid concept and technology. Andres defined the term smart grid on March 5, 2004. Andres has over 36 years of experience in the Energy, Telecommunications, Computer and Software industries.