Matthew Harper

Matthew has been a Roatan resident involved in the electrical industry on Roatan for many years. He worked with RECO (Roatan Electric Company) from 1992 to 1999 as a metering supervisor, line supervisor and then operations manager as well as lineman training officer. During this time he was also involved in the RECO system restoration in 1998 after Hurricane Mitch. Upon leaving RECO in 1999 , Matthew tried work in the private sector working for several years until recently as chief electrical engineer with Roatan’s leading development company being involved at all levels of power system development at Mayan Princess Resort and Parrot Tree Plantation to name two. Although no longer a full time RECO employee Matthew has served since 2000 as a board member where he has remained involved in the development and planning of energy in Roatan . A fervent proponent of training he hopes within a year to start a technical training institute offering vocational courses specifically dealing with construction trades in Roatan.

In 2004 Matthew decided to start Green Hill Energy Services with in only a few months this business has become one of the leading contracting firms on the Island due to its commitment to their customer first philosophy , strong work ethic and quality , guaranteed installations.

Matthew is a Graduate in Electrical Engineering Technology from Thomas Edison State College, New Jersey. Holds a Level II Linesman Certificate and is a member of the Royal Institution of Electrical Engineers (United Kingdom) and a member of the Independent Electrical Contractors Association (IECA). Matthew is a founding member, together with Vegas Electric, of ACEH ( Associacion de Contratistas Electricas Hondurenos ) which is the first NECA ( national electrical contractors association )chapter in Central America.

Matthew is an amateur historian and writes short stories particularly about Roatan www.bayislandsvoice.com/issue-v3-3.htm

 

Lisandro Castillo (Field Supervisor): Lisandro is one of the most experienced linemen on Roatan with 20 years experience of clambering up and over poles with the agility of a lemur ! He first began work as an electrician as a way of getting rank and a pay raise with Honduran army’s 105th infantry battalion in Trujillo and when he was discharged as First Sergeant, continued work in factories as an industrial electrician. In 1992 he began working at RECO where he worked as a service drop crew chief as well as 13.8kv high line lineman until 1998 when he tried the public sector working for a development. Lisandro is a trained cableman in terminating 15kv cable. He has been with GreenHill since its beginnings in 2004 and is a shareholder but most importantly as field supervisor and dazzling striker in the GreenHill soccer team!

 

Rene Diaz (Office Manager): A graduate of Jonesville’s Instituto Honduras college , Rene came to us from a local bank where he worked since leaving school. Despite only having been with us for a short while Rene has begun to show the makings of an excellent draftsman (CAD) and a fine staking engineer. Green Hill is committed to training and Rene since joining us has made the most of this commitment by learning a variety of new skills besides running the office. Rene lives in Punta Gorda.

 

 

Juan Antunez and Carlos Ocampo (linemen/ cablemen): Juan and Carlos have been with the company since the beginning and have achieved much with the company in the interim (thousands of feet of conduit buried; cable pulled, terminated and energized; underground, above ground and underwater!) Personally these 2 have also taken full advantage of the company’s commitment to training becoming proficient cablemen with a wealth of experience and knowledge under their belts. Both are proficient residential electricians. Juan is a Bo. Los Fuertes resident and Carlos from Coxenhole.

 

Manrike Balderama and Dennis Fuentes (assistant linemen/cablemen): Dennis Fuentes comes to us from the Navy ( Fuerza Naval ) where he was a marine electrician. He is from Coxen Hole. Manrike Balderama has always had a keen interest in linework being the son of a RECO lineman. Manrike is in his last year of school where he studies at nighttime. Manrike lives in Bo. Los Fuertes.

 

 

 

Carlos Deras - Consultant Engineer : Carlos Deras is our newest addition to Green Hill coming on board as consultant engineer at the beginning of 2007 and bringing with him over three decades of power engineering experience. We are very proud to have Carlos
( Ingeniero Deras ) working with us . He is a foremost authority in Honduras in the field of power distribution , particularly metering holding a BSc in Electrical Engineering and having been trained in the Westinghouse laboratories in Pennsylvania and in Mexico. He also holds a Masters degree in Business Administration. Ingeniero Deras presently teaches Physics and Maths at both the University of San Pedro and the Technical University of Honduras ( UTH ).

 

Elsa (apprentice linedog): Elsa is a member of the Canine Electricians Apprenticeship Program making steady progress and not getting in the way, much!