Defense Ventures Scout at Army Reserve Innovation - serve as a venture scout for the Army Modernization Enterprise and lead partnership development with DoD venture organizations, VCs, and startup partners.Portfolio Alignment: Materials, Energy, Cyber. Currently focused on supporting Army Applications Lab (AAL) and various Army SBIR programs (e.g., xTechSearch and Army Applied SBIR).

Growth strategy and value creation for energy & chemicals clients; founding members of circularity and sustainability practice.

Engagement manager leading teams of 2-5 for strategy consulting projects focused on value creation, growth strategy, commercial due diligence, and performance improvement. Aligned to serving private equity and corporate clients in the chemicals, natural resources, materials, and energy sectors.- Founding member of KPMG Strategy Circularity practice across industries- Core member of KPMG Strategy commercial due diligence team- Led training & onboarding for Strategy practitioners across levels at KPMG - Regularly published Chemicals thought leadership and led conference marketing and content for Chemicals

Generalist strategy consulting role with experience in M&A diligence & execution, growth strategy, and performance improvement/operating strategy. Representative engagements: - Strategy redesign at an energy supermajor to optimize asset value - Operational diligence for PE-backed tech firm with synergy model build-out- Analytics and reporting strategy for Fortune 50 healthcare CEO for COVID-impacted operations- Commercial diligence for PE targets in the power & utilities space- Post-transaction execution for an energy asset with a new business unit stand-up

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Defense Innovation | Industrial Base Policy

Grew / managed key account from <$1m to over $2m in annual recurring revenue. Improved report generation time by ~ 15% through optimized workflow management.Specific responsibilities include preparing & delivering presentations to business/product managers; identifying and quantifying margin improvement activities through cost reduction or performance improvement; performing extensive data validation to ensure consistent comparison basis & interfacing with product planner/product engineers to continuously identify areas of improvement. Specific achievements include developing and executing technology-based benchmark for a major South American polyolefins producer; providing continued analytical support for a government-sponsored multi-year energy efficiency benchmark for > 50 petro-chemical processes; and regular preparation of industry analysis for polyolefins markets in North America/Europe by product category (pipe, film, homopolymer etc.) on a quarterly basis.

Sirrus, Inc. was a VC-backed (Braemar Energy Ventures) materials science startup. I helped Sirrus with chemical process development and optimization for a reactive monomer scale-up effort. I joined post Series-A as employee #50.