This page contains the list of nominees with submitted bios and pictures for the 2020 Quelab Board of Directors' election. Content on this page will be updated as nominations are confirmed throughout the month.

Nominations close at 11:59 p.m. on Saturday, February 8th, 2020.

The election is scheduled for February 16th, 2020, from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Quelab & the Board will be providing food.

Here are your nominees:

• Bill Kriegh
• Charel Morris
• Darrel Knutson
• Denis Muradov
• Hugh Hulse
• JJ Salley

I am running for a Board of Directors seat because I’m interested in seeing the organization grow and become a place more folks can call “my home away from home maker space”. I was appointed Board/officer secretary in October and wish to participate more in this facet of the organization. I‘ve been interested in sparktrickery ever since I stuck a knife from a silver flatware set into the control panel of my grandmother’s electric stove and burned the blade in two at the ripe old age of 3 years. I’ve dabbled in the field in some fashion or another since. My experience includes doing tool and die work and general maintenance at a place that made electronic components for Western Electric, owned and operated an electric motor rewinding business, worked for Colo DOT in the traffic signal/electrical maint. part of traffic division – 6 ½ years as a supervisor..

I ran my own business as an electrical contractor and have been a Colorado Licensed master electrician for 28 years.

I retired and moved to New Mexico 6 years ago to be with my high school sweetie and will be firmly anchored here for quite a while.

My interests are varied and among them is electronic tinkering and model railroading.

A Quelab member since 2012, serving as officer & director since 2014. Founding director of ABQ Maker Faire. My making is more arts than tech such as hand drums, sacred masks, altars, worked with gourds and various mixed media pieces to creating workshops, retreats, live events, concerts, recording engineer and producer. My focus is on building our maker community at Quelab and in this region. Quelab has an important year ahead with key decisions and looking for opportunities to expand our community and bring in some more cool tools to play with. I have spent the last 20+ years working with Hackers – DEF CON and Open Source Developers – ApacheCon and in this time I have come to understand the power and some of the pitfalls that are a part of growing a community of makers of all sorts.

I am a candidate for the board because after being a vocal critic for years I am willing to stand up and try to make the board a more responsive and functional group. As a member I would work to make the board more like the guidance group it should be and get it out of the day-to-day operations managers it seems to have become. The board appoints the officers who should be doing the actual management with the president and other officers having actual control.

I was taught by me dad to try and learn new things and to get involved at a very early age. Since then I have been a “hacker” all of my life with an emphasis on woodworking and learning what I needed to do what I wanted. I love the Quelab because as I tell people, it is an adult playhouse. It has the tools members can use to learn and make things to their hearts desire. More importantly, it has a diverse membership of people with the knowledge and desire to help other people learn and “do”. I have donated a lot of tools and time to help expand the capabilities of Quelab and will continue to do so. I would like to see us return to having classes, both paid and free, to teach members new skills and most importantly, retain members to grow the organization.

My background as a retired US Air Force pilot and computer systems engineer has taught me that skills you learn at any age help you explore and grow in other areas.

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