Glenn Wortham
Land & airspace analysis consultant
Sweetwater, Texas
E-mail: [email protected]
Profile
Experienced wind energy field specialist with responsibility for site evaluation,
landowner relations, regional credibility, airspace analysis, and conference management
Experienced leader in regional government with extensive credibility at local, state, and
federal level.
Experienced businessman with front-line responsibilities for profit and loss
Professional experience
Energy, airspace & rural land use
New Amsterdam Global Solutions LLC – Land and airspace analysis consultant –
December 2008-Present – Assignments include wind farm and solar site prescreening,
Federal Aviation Administration studies (FAA trained, also from perspective of having a
private pilot license), radar pre-screening, pairing wind and solar power developers with
landowners; landowner relations; regional stakeholder interface.
Texas Wind Energy Clearinghouse -- Conference Manager – December 2008-Present
– Participate in strategy development and implement logistics for conferences across
Texas and as distant as Nebraska on topics such as solar energy, regional wind energy
development and operations, multi-sector energy strategies, transmission grid expansion,
industrial supply chain enhancement, wind energy executive field training, and more.
Special training – November 2008 – Federal Aviation Administration Obstruction
Training under provisions of 49 U.S.C., Section 44718 and Title 14 of the Code of
Federal Regulations, part 77 – Las Vegas, Nevada.
Licensed general aviation pilot since 1985.
Member – Permian Basin Airport Regional Advisory Board – affiliated with Midland
International Airport (MAF) – Appointee of the Mayor of Sweetwater and the Mayor of
Midland – Since 1995 – participate in strategy development and regional input regarding
commercial air service, foreign trade zone, airport upgrades, and related topics for major
airport in West Texas energy region (oil, natural gas, wind, solar, nuclear, coal,
geothermal).
Third Planet Windpower LLC – Contract Consultant – Land Title Analysis –
November 2007-November 2008 – Contract consultant assigned duties relating to
landowner contacts, coordinating legal descriptions of leased property to wind project,
lease acquisition, and related topics for roughly 500 MW Loraine wind project complex.
U.S. Postal Service – Relief rural mail carrier – 2004 through 2008 – travel 100 miles
per day on route through wind region of Nolan and Fisher counties of West Texas –
opportunity to view road conditions, wind construction logistics, landowner reaction.
Risk management and insurance
Wortham Agency – Owner-Agent – 1984-2008 – Sweetwater – specializing in
individual, family, and group industrial life and health insurance.
Texas Farm Bureau Insurance Roscoe – Agent – 1980-1984 – Nolan County Farm
Bureau Insurance offices in Roscoe (home of world’s largest wind energy project).
Retail regional management & industrial
Colonial Food Stores, Inc. – District Manager – Sweetwater-Midland-Odessa – 1977
– 1980 – Managed three stores in Sweetwater, including the construction of two
locations, promoted to District Manager of five stores in Midland and Odessa.
Responsible for hiring and training employees. (Avg. 50 employees), setting budgets,
general operations. District in heart of West Texas energy region.
Carroll Buick Cadillac – Automobile Service Manager – Sweetwater – 1976-1977 –
Service Manager, directed service technicians, diagnosed problems, directed repairs to
autos.
Flintkote Gypsum Manufacturer – Gypsum Plant Technical Staff – 1973–1976 –
Sweetwater – Assigned to shipping, board plant and gypsum quarry maintenance.
Maintained and operated heavy equipment. Also worked maintenance in gypsum
wallboard plant.
Town and Country Grocery – Store Manager – 1969-1973 – Roscoe – Managed
grocery operation, setting work schedules, budgets.
Education
Sweetwater High School 1956
San Angelo Junior College 1956-1957
Extensive continuing education programs in local government for 20 years through Texas
Municipal League, National League of Cities and other state and national forums.
Subjects such as open meetings, legislative issues, employee benefits, employee relations,
infrastructure, purchasing, bid processes.
Advanced courses with life Underwriter Training Council, Chartered Life Underwriter
Courses through the American College.
National Association of Convenience Stores Training schools at the University of
Georgia covering personnel, management by objectives, and other management practices.
Public Service Boards and Commissions
Elected to City Commission of Sweetwater, Texas – America’s Energy Solutions Center –
for 20 years 1986 – 2006
o Prepared budgets, general operation of city government; 137 employees and $6
million budget. Wortham had been in office two weeks when a devatstating
tornado struck the community in 1986. City Commission met multiple times per
day for months under emergency conditions – setting up and administering
recovery and rebuilding procedures and coordinating Federal, State, and local
disaster programs and initiatives
o Served as City representative to Nolan County Coliseum arena supervisory board
for several years.
o Texas Municipal League: (representing 1100 Texas cities) Region 6 ( 67 cities) vice
president and president. Member TML statewide Board of Directors, on the budget
and finance committee, chaired the committee to develop legislation agenda for
workers comp. 2005. Served on the employee related legislative affairs committee.
Member of TML committee on electrical deregulation for Texas. (We worked with
industry & legislators to obtain best positions for cities.)
o Served as a member and as chairman of Small Cities Advisory Committee, a
subdivision of the Texas Municipal League, served as state representative to
National League of Cities for small cities. Conducted workshop at annual TML
training session for newly elected council members on budget preparation. I have
attended several workshops on the Texas open meetings act and
o other local training courses including 4A & 4B economic development tax laws.
1995 – Present – Midland International Airport Board. Serve as a member of regional
advisory board representing Sweetwater – Nolan County area as a rural representative.
Policy Advisory Board for Business Innovation Center in Nolan County. This was a
business incubator project funded by Texas Department of Agriculture and was selected by
the state as a project to highlight at a national meeting on alternative agriculture use in rural
America.
West Central Texas Council of Governments (WCTCOG): Member of regional review
committee, for community development block grants for two terms. Appointed by
Governor George W. Bush and Governor Ann Richards
Also member of WCTCOG’s Council on Aging.
Served as a member of Rolling Plains Memorial Hospital Board, setting budgets, other
board activities, 200 employees and $20 Million budget. Resigned when elected to City
Commission. After hospital district was setup, served as chairman of tri-racial committee to
redistrict and also set original single member voting districts.
Served as a member of County-City Library Board, working with budgets and employee
benefits, resigned when elected to City Commission.
Active member of Sweetwater Chamber of Commerce, chair of state & Federal committee
1994-95. Member of Red Coats community ambassadors.
Other Community Activities
First Presbyterian Church of Sweetwater (Presbyterian Church of the USA): elder, member
of session, treasurer for eleven years, prepared budgets, etc., building and grounds, worship,
fellowship. Chairman of committees for elder nominations and other church tasks.
Served on budget and finance committee, nominating committee to select members of all
committees for Palo Duro Presbytery (District church group)
Selected as Outstanding Citizen of Sweetwater in 2001.
Past Member of Sweetwater and Roscoe Lions Clubs.
Past member Sweetwater Jaycees, past president and life member. Chaired multiple
projects and action committees, including moving books into new library building and
establishing new community library.
Past officer in Parent-Teachers Association (PTA) while our children were in grade
school and junior high, Band Booster Club, Abilene Assn. Life Underwriters, Wagon
Boss of Sweetwater Chuck Wagon Gang.
Served as County Chairman of Democratic Party eight years, also election clerk and
election judge for twenty years.
Trained member of Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), for regional
community disaster assistance.
Past camping and activities chairman for area Boy Scouts of America.
All America City presentation committee in Houston 1988 at National Civic League
when Sweetwater was selected as an All America City.
Business travel experience
Extensive business and government travel throughout Texas
Extensive business and government travel throughout USA – including more than 35
states and the District of Columbia
Business travel throughout Pacific region, including Hong Kong, China, Japan, Thailand,
Hawaii, and Alaska
Leisure travel in United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, and Caribbean