About solarsean.com, seanwhite.org & PVstudent.com
One day at the Pacific Energy Center in San Francisco, I was asked to teach a PV class at Merritt Community College in Oakland. I had passed the NABCEP PV entry level certificate of knowledge examination and thought that with my experience as a "professional test taker" having passed many levels of National and State Board Examinations, etc. that I could best help students by giving them tools to get a solar certification that would show the world that they have a certain level of knowledge. Some of my favorite classes were Board Review courses. Fun learning is memorable learning.
Here is a link that explains how the class began:
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Dr. Sean White
Sean is a licensed chiropractor and has cut down on his practice to pursue a full time career in photovoltaics. He works full time as a Solar Project Estimator/Designer at a large established roofing company in Oakland California. He also taught PV at Merritt Community College in Oakland in 2008, where he administered the North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners entry level PV certificate of knowledge examination.
Currently Sean is an Adjunct Professor at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, CA
www.dvc.edu where he teaches an Advanced PV Class and will be teaching a C-46 Solar Contractors License Exam Preperation course in the Fall of 2009.
Sean is also now the first solar instructor at the first solar school in Pennsylvania. Enroll now at
www.solarschoolpa.com.
Dr. White has been active in environmental causes for many years. He was a candidate for Contra Costa County District 2 Supervisor in 2000 & has been an active political activist since he was old enough to vote.
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He works part time, weekends and evenings as a chiropractor avoiding HMOs at the Piedmont Spa
www.piedmontspa.com and is a talented & experienced chiropractor.
Sean got his start in alternative energy as a PV technical researcher for Local Power for a decade, which is run by his good friends Paul Fenn & Julie Peters. They met in 1996 at Jerry Brown's We The People orginization, where they were active participants (
http://www.wtp.org/) Paul Fenn is the author of the Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) law, which has been passed in many municipalities across the nation & promotes Solar Power among other things. Click on the Local Power image to find out more.
He also has spent many years working on his family's ranch, where he maintained an off-grid hybrid PV system.
Here are a few credentials:
