Marlene Brown recently retired from a multifaceted career at Sandia National Labs. She engaged and facilitated high level strategic planning, problem solving along with System Engineering activities. She has worked evaluating of systems and components and as a Quality Engineer in a Subsystem and Components group. She also worked in a On-Orbit Satellite Analysis Group working with satellite sensors and detectors. Her first job at Sandia was in the Photovoltaics Systems Group where she worked with all levels of systems applications in the field and in the lab. Marlene has worked with photovoltaic applications for over 20 years. She has 2 Engineering Masters degrees and over 25 years working with photovoltaics (solar electricity), including testing, monitoring, consulting, teaching and training.