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Santa Cruz, CA, US

Santa Clara, CA, US

• (Comfy & Enlighted, both Siemens companies, merged under the same brand "Enlighted" in 2022)Senior member of Solutions Delivery team with specialty in managing delivery of high-profile, tricky, and large-scale.
• Over a 3 year period, managed scaling the delivery of the software products from 10s to 1000s of locations, with current deployments in 59 countries
• Built and currently manage teams located in Germany, India, and Bulgaria
• Manage external (customer) and internal (Siemens) stakeholders across the globe; frequently communicating and meeting with people across 5+ time zones in a single day
• Work closely with Product and Sales managers to define methodologies and standards for delivery of new products
• Create internal and customer-facing training materials

Oakland, CA, US

• Managed delivery and support of custom workplace experience app to business customers to serve their staff (B to B to C)
• Worked cross-functionally to define delivery processes for delivery of a growing portfolio of products to an exponentially increasing customer base
• Developed training modules for growing team and new hires
• Modernized intra- and inter-team tooling and proceedures as the company scaledResponsibilities included: App Configuration & Testing, Project Management, Customer Champion, Scaling & Continuous Improvement

Oakland, CA, US

• Facilitated the implementation of workplace experience software
• Consulted with building systems engineering, solutions design and delivery, and customer service teams to execute needed software delivery tasks
• Interacted with customers of various scales across the world, both on the building hardware and systems software sides
• Audited existing project delivery tools and processes and consulted on improvements for efficiencyResponsibilities included: analysis of building systems information, spatial integration with architectural drawings and.

• Project development and management for effectiveness assessments of environmental restoration and conservation actions.
• Worked closely with broad array of stakeholders: municipalities, state agencies, general citizenry, private firms
• Developed methodologies, mapping, database and analysis tools
• Provided training and technical customer support for novel SaaS tools
• Delivered projects on time and on budgetResponsibilities included: remote sensing analysis, managing and analyzing GIS datasets and coordinating data with municipal stakeholders, project management, stakeholder.

Washington, DC, US

• Responsible for guiding and facilitating the development of strategic conservation plans for each of Defenders’ fifteen “Focal Landscapes”.
• Cultivate, manage, and execute Defenders’ program and policy work in conservation planning, spatial analysis, and landscape ecology.
• Other responsibilities include: streamlining the organization’s geographic information systems, helping staff utilize web-based mapping technologies to communicate their work, and providing spatial analysis and.

Washington, DC, US

• Worked with partners at federal, state, and local levels, (including three regional land trusts), to update and implement regional and watershed conservation plans with special attention to priority habitats.
• Guided Defenders field office and program staff in improving the strategic direction and the effectiveness of conservation projects and campaigns.
• Used spatial planning and ecological modeling tools along with the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation to improve conservation effectiveness in the face of climate change and other emerging conservation.

Santa Barbara, California, US

• Worked with Dr. Frank Davis and other UC and agency researchers on an NSF-funded project investigating how macroecological responses to climate change emerge from finer scale climate and population processes.
• Responsible for managing the installation of long-term climate monitoring and plant response experiments at four field sites in the Sierra Nevada and the Coastal Ranges of California.
• Responsible for the design and construction of data models, databases, and work flow models to handle and organize the huge datasets to be generated by this study.

Frazier Park, California, US

• “Ecology and Management of Oak Woodlands on Tejon Ranch: Recommendations for Conserving a Valuable California Ecosystem”
• Provided our client, The Tejon Ranch Conservancy, with an assessment of the conservation values, ecological condition, threats, and potential management strategies for blue, black, & valley oak woodlands on Tejon Ranch.
• Research included: assessing oak regeneration and historical distribution changes, modeling the impacts of climate change, and comparing the ecological status and structure of oaks on the Ranch to those elsewhere in.
• Final products include: spatial analyses and maps characterizing the oak resources and their threats, a database of baseline conditions, the establishment of permanent vegetation monitoring plots, and recommendations.

Arlington, Virginia, US

· Led research project investigating the possible impacts of climate change on global viticultural suitability and assessing how potential land use change might intersect with areas of conservation concern.· Assessed vineyard suitability through species distribution models and bioclimatic and physiological parameters. Results were analyzed using GIS.

Lawrence, KS, US

· Assisted Dr. Joy Ward with research on the effects of past, present and future global change factors on the growth and development of plants.· Worked on a variety of projects, including experimental growth of Arabidopsis thaliana under varied CO2 concentrations and stable isotope analysis on pack rat middens and other plant and animal macrofossils.·.

Washington, D.C., US

· Worked as a wildlife biologist for the bi-annual Yellowstone Wolf Project "Winter Study."· Monitored and collected data (dawn to dusk) on behavior, movement, & prey/non-prey interactions.· Located wolves and monitored visually & via radio telemetry, ground tracking, & scavenger association.

Washington, D.C., US

· Worked as a wildlife biologist on study of the park's desert bighorn sheep populations. · Darted/anesthetized wild sheep, collared the animals, conducted physical/physiological data collection, and monitored using radio telemetry. Assisted with on-going capture/collar study of the park's Puma population.

· Worked as a wildlife biologist on a study of the park's desert bighorn sheep populations (see above).· Assisted with ongoing studies of the canyon's Mexican spotted owl population and surveys of small mammal prey base and on invasive species removal projects.

· Instructed winter ecology field outings for Bozeman elementary and middle school students.

· Worked as a field technician researching the effects of natural gas drilling on nesting songbirds in the piñon-juniper woodlands of Colorado and New Mexico.· Conducted avian identification, nest-searching & monitoring, behavioral observations, and use of high-tech

· Conducted vegetation surveys & used precision GPS equipment to support high-resolution remote sensing imagery and data sets.

Master Of Environemtnal Science And Management, Conservation Planning And Water Resources Management

Bachelor Of Arts, Biology; Minor In Latin American Studies