Obadiah Bartholomy is a Project Manager in the Energy R&D group at SMUD. He leads their Climate Change program, including Cap and Trade implementation, climate policy development, GhG strategic planning, Local Climate Action Planning, mitigation technology development, and carbon offset procurement. Obadiah was responsible for the first inventory certified with the California Climate Action Registry. He helped develop the Power and Utility Reporting Protocol with CCAR and the Electric Power Sector Protocol with The Climate Registry. He earned a BS in mechanical engineering from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and an MS in transportation technology and policy from UC Davis.