Eric Macias is currently the Director of Marketing for Gicon Pumps and Equipment/American West Windmill and Solar Co. He began in the water well business in 2000 and quickly advanced to submersible turbine assembly. Macias attended Goulds-ITT Lineshaft/Submersible Turbine School, a 48-hour pump theory and application class, many Franklin Electric and Goulds-ITT motor and control seminars, and the Yaskawa and Allen Bradley variable frequency drive training courses. He has also taught classes for CGWA, OGWA, TGWA, FGWA, KGWA, and MSGWA as well as private classes.