Agent Profile

David Drummond

Sales Associate

Dave Drummond provides both energy and real estate services to individual clients and national accounts. He is uniquely qualified to assist homeowners as well as developers, investors
and commercial clients both buy and sell property. Dave’s education and certifications include:

• Real Estate Agent licensed in the State of Montana
• Certified Commercial Investment Member candidate (CCIM), with the CCIM Institute based in Chicago
• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Montana State University
• Energy Star® Verifier and Rater
• Certified Energy Manager (CEM)
• Certified Energy Purchasing Professional (CEP)
• Certified Demand Side Management Professional (CDSM)

Dave’s technical background is complemented by extensive experience in client advocacy, relationship marketing and consultive selling. He is recognized for his interpersonal and communication skills and he uses his education and experience to analyze and market technical strategies for homes, commercial buildings and planned unit developments.

Energy efficient, environmentally sensitive and sustainable projects are growing in consumer demand. Dave uses his experience in “green building” and the energy industry to provide supply-side and demand-side advisory services. He can analyze the planned design of your home and can help you obtain certification under State and nationally recognized programs like the Energy Star® or Built Green® Colorado . As such, your home or development project may qualify for coop-advertising, for state or federal tax credits, for utility rebates, or for the energy efficient mortgage.

A founding member of the US Green Building Council (USGBC), Dave has received training in the Energy Star® Program and the LEED® 2.1 label (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design). He passed the Energy Star® Homes Northwest (ESHNW) verifier examination and the RESNET National HERS Rater test to become one of only two certified as an ESHNW Verifier and Performance Testers in southwest Montana. He has served as a Charter member of Green Seal Partnership; a member of the national Association of Home Builders; and a voting member of the ASTM – Committee E-50 on Environmental Assessment.

In the late 1990s, Dave worked as the Director of Product Development for EcoGroup, Inc., a very entrepreneurial, privately held company that develops software-based programs linking energy efficiency to environmental benefit. He wrote logic and oversaw the development of programs like the Good Cents Environmental Home, Business Edge, In Concert With The Environment®, which were licensed to utilities across the country for sponsorship to their customers. Under Dave’s leadership, EcoGroup developed an “externality methodology” that was used to value the environmental impact of the various choices made by consumers. A material externality is the impact resulting from the creation of a commodity that is not included in the price of that commodity, but is indirectly paid for by society as a whole. EcoGroup quantified those externalities in order to measure the benefit of making environmentally responsible choices that result in the saving of natural resources.
Dave has worked on the regulated and unregulated side of the energy business and as a consultant to it. He has a working knowledge of the political and regulatory issues surrounding net-metering and the interconnection requirements of wind, solar-electric and conventional distributed generation systems.

Through his promotion of specific projects, Dave strives to create awareness of efficient energy strategies that are cost-effective for designers, builders and homeowners in the Gallatin Valley and southwestern Montana. A native of Bozeman, Dave is a seasoned professional that can collaborate with you on marketing strategies and can intelligently speak to prospective buyers on your behalf.

For additional information you can go to: http://www.OwnAPieceOfMontana.com and http://www.EnergyAdvisoryServices.com.