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United States

Albuquerque-Santa Fe Metropolitan Area

Albuquerque, New Mexico Area

Analyst responsible for IT projects during the intake, scoping, and procurement phases. Forge relationships with myriad internal project requestors and stakeholders. Prioritize projects, including tough conversations with requestors of lower-priority projects.

Portland, Oregon Area

Project manager/analyst overseeing vendor staff analyzing demand response, electric vehicle and energy storage programs. Translates customer and management direction into technical requirements to ensure that analysis meets strategic needs. Budget exceeds $500,000 annually.• Led creation of a management-signed consensus on responsibilities of IT, program implementation, and evaluation teams. Greatly improved data provision & management.• Dramatically increased efficiency and savings through clearer and more efficient division of responsibilities. As a result, we covered 4.5x as many programs with 2x staffing increase.• In response to new executive-level focus on metrics measured monthly, proactively initiated research design process to gather needs from 3 internal customer teams. Scoped and budgeted projects to inform choice of ambitious but achievable targets.

Portland, Oregon Area

Project manager and subject matter expert for vendor load research and customer program evaluation efforts. Budget of contracts managed exceeds $500,000 annually.• Led 2016 overhaul of load research sampling and analysis methods. Previously, data provided did not meet business and regulatory needs and timelines. - Overhaul allowed me to manage a vendor’s on-time and under-budget delivery of quality load research outputs for rate-setting in 2017. • Managed a vendor’s provision of quality impact and process evaluation of PGE’s smart thermostat demand response program. - Evaluation smoothed regulatory approval of multi-million-dollar expansion.• Wrote evaluation sections of PGE’s proposals to the Oregon Public Utility Commission (OPUC) for storage and transportation electrification pilot projects. • Simultaneous procurement for three new demand response evaluation needs on a tight timeline in 2017.• Managed two interns’ creation of a well-received electric vehicle dashboard.

Portland, Oregon Area

Analyst/project manager of dashboarding and advanced analytics projects for CLEAResult, an energy efficiency program implementation firm. CLEAResult bought PECI in October 2014.• Developed Tableau dashboards that automated hundreds of hours of labor per year• Company’s SAS pioneer, ultimately leading a cross-functional user’s group of six.• Led team that created within-SAS software that automated advanced building modeling. - Hundreds of models per run - Hundreds of millions of rows of data analyzed per run

Energy and program analyst in charge of SAS analysis hub at PECI. I was the technical lead on projects that use advanced regression analysis in SAS on interval data to measure and verify the energy that PECI's projects are saving. I also consulted with PECI's energy efficiency programs on how to better use analytics to streamline program reporting and improve client deliverables. In both the technical and program work, I acted as project lead, with people reporting to me dotted-line for the analytics work.

Portland, Or

I worked on data hygiene, reporting validity, preparedness for external auditing, and advanced analytics for PECI's residential energy efficiency practice. I used SAS to perform billing analyses to verify actual post-installation energy savings and other statistical and analytical functions.

Portland, Oregon Area

Internal ‘auditor’ of data systems to ensure utility energy efficiency programs implemented by PECI were prepared for third-party evaluation.• Identified and fixed systemic, high-visibility, errors in a multimillion-dollar, multi-state energy efficiency program’s energy savings tracking database.

I find, organize, and analyze economic, social, and environmental data, with an eye to appropriate and easily understandable measures.Past reports which I had primary responsibility for:-An evaluation of two State programs to assist Oregon small businesses. Analyzed survey and other data to give an objective and useful measure of the programs' success.-A visitor forecast to MercyCorps' new headquarters in downtown Portland. Data from the first year showed the forecast was within 10 percent of the actual number of visitors.Projects managed by others which I did a lot of work for:-An evaluation of the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance's ENERGY STAR Homes Program.-The economic impacts of a proposed wind farm in Eastern Oregon. Focus on the potential impacts on scenic and wilderness recreation.-Analysis of large Census datasets in order to give Multnomah and Washington County school systems the best information available on the at-risk youth population.

Focus on customer service in a fast-paced retail sales environment. I also thought up and acted on ideas for sales layout improvement.

Produced pithy, accurate emails to the public advocating carbon footprint reduction in daily life.

On an NSF-funded "Research Experience for Undergraduates," I worked with Prof. Jim Biles and ten other students to investigate housing and the informal economy in Merida, Mexico. We perfected and implemented a door-to-door survey and analyzed its results. I had personal responsibility for the data analysis section of a public presentation at the Autonomous University of Merida.