Melissa F. Bartos, Project Manager, is a financial and economic consultant with more than ten years of experience in the energy industry. She has conducted comprehensive demand forecast analyses including data collection and validation, model building using various statistical and econometric approaches, and developing presentations, reports and testimony to communicate results. Ms. Bartos has also designed, built, and enhanced numerous financial and statistical models to support clients in asset-based transactions, energy contract negotiations, reliability studies, asset and business valuations, rate and regulatory matters, cost-of-service analysis, and risk management. Her modeling experience includes building Monte-Carlo simulation models, designing an allocated cost-of-service model, statistical modeling using SPSS, and programming using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). Ms. Bartos consulted with Reed Consulting Group and most recently served as Senior Consultant for Navigant Consulting, Inc. Ms. Bartos has an M.S. in Mathematics (Statistics) from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, a B.A. from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA, and is a member of the American Statistical Association.