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Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

• Perform energy and building comfort audits on buildings throughout all East coast markets for K-12, Municipal, University, and Hospital prospective clients
• Assemble client baseline energy usage, utility rates, and baseline major equipment through live metering, controls audits, and site visits
• Develop measure recommendations for cost and energy efficiency depending on customer savings goals
• Create initial redesign of the system with accepted efficiency improvements
• Assemble pricing and rebate options for proposed equipment
• Develop finance model for project over desired term

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

• Worked with over 20 different utility programs to help properly implement and assess program savings and assess long-term program efficacy due to technology and code improvements
• Performed custom retrofit and construction project reviews on a variety of different building and equipment types to determine equipment validity to code as well as accurate energy savings projections
• Established Technical Work Papers for multiple programs to calculate and justify savings for a wide variety of measures and products
• Created calculations and worked to help implement and verify the effectiveness of electrification for HVAC equipment across the Midwest markets
• Aided multiple programs in startup efforts and served as the technical lead to discuss program equipment and how it affects energy savings and costs as well as data tracking and reporting

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

• Aided in identifying and implementing energy savings in residential multifamily complexes over Duke Energy territory
• Provided technical management, program leadership, and tasking work to a team of four direct reports
• Built customized data visualization tools from a brand-new database and software for two separate customers
• Led client-facing meetings and served as the bridge contact point during the transition of program managers on both the internal and client side

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

• Learned under multiple PE’s about designing and constructing industrial refrigeration systems for food, pharmaceutical, and chemical industry clients
• Performed daily activities such as system takeoffs and system design to verify system functionality and efficiency
• Expanded experience in AutoCAD and Revit design and drawing production
• Worked on the front end of budgeting, quoting items, and handling shipping coordination for materials to multiple construction sites and clients
• Created and actively implemented a Shipping and Shop Inventory tracking excel spreadsheets in order to increase efficiency in meeting project deadlines

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

In my third and final rotation at Highwoods, I spent a large portion of my time performing self guided building audits in an effort to curb excess usage at poor performing buildings. This involved identifying buildings with high base loads, communicating with the property managers to determine if this usage is necessary/billed, and then performing data.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

In my second rotation at Highwoods, I continued with the usual work I performed in rotation one while adding some additional tasks to develop new skills. Primarily, I served as a Project Manager for outdoor lighting retrofits at one of our Raleigh office parks. This involved developing a thorough cost analysis to be approved by management, and then.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

My first Co-op rotation in the Asset Management department of Highwoods consisted of learning the ropes of some of the important day to day technologies we use (energy monitoring systems, controls systems, and reporting techniques) and creating some updates/improvements with JMP and Excel. Major projects included creating an accurate savings and.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

As a mechanical engineering intern with Plexus, I aided the team in designing parts aimed to create a better user experience. I developed my skills mainly with SolidWorks as well as machining and printing parts, and injection molding. This provided useful hands on experience and education with design in general, specifically in the medical realm..