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Palo Alto, California, United States

● Lead $3M+ research portfolio focused on developing and applying tools and resources that enable strategic decision-making grounded in sustainability and inform corporate sustainability programs at multi-billion-dollar corporations.● Manage a team of 7 sustainability analysts and SMEs and maintain relationships across 50+ North American energy utility companies to create multi-year strategic research roadmap, and identify new business development opportunities resulting in year-over-year… Show more ● Lead $3M+ research portfolio focused on developing and applying tools and resources that enable strategic decision-making grounded in sustainability and inform corporate sustainability programs at multi-billion-dollar corporations.● Manage a team of 7 sustainability analysts and SMEs and maintain relationships across 50+ North American energy utility companies to create multi-year strategic research roadmap, and identify new business development opportunities resulting in year-over-year growth in research funders.● Create and deliver presentations to educate and inform a variety of audiences from analysts through executives and from non-technical to SMEs. Show less

Palo Alto, Ca

● Built and maintained key relationships by clearly identifying and deeply understanding clients’ evolving issues to identify appropriate sales opportunities for research engagement.● Created and led four-part COVID19 webcast series for 1,000+ total energy utility professionals to help them understand evolving and existing research that informed internal decision-making related to the global pandemic.

Palo Alto, Ca

● Managed 11 research programs through the scoping, pricing, and roll-out process, enhancing the delivery and impact of strategic research initiatives.● Revitalized the project creation process, including addition of enhanced due diligence, reducing the time from launch to project start resulting in improved project status tracking and increased project execution success rates.

Palo Alto, California

● Managed over $147 million in proposal activities from initial kickoff through submission for federal, state, and private requests, ensuring compliance and responsiveness to funder requirements, and achieving a 51%-win rate.

Worked as a ski instructor during a break from the clean energy industry.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

● At PowerSecure Solar, LLC., I conducted in-depth industry research, market analysis, and policy studies, and implemented an accessible and standardized sales data archive to inform company-wide proposal responses leading to addition of over 90 MW of solar to our pipeline, more than tripling the company’s previously executed portfolio.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

● Worked on the Training Programs team to facilitate execution of solar extension training courses, including NABCEP and Renewable Energy Management certification for 200+ regional workers transitioning into the renewable energy industry.Serve on contract management team (budgeting and proposal review).

Executive Mba

Activities and Societies: ● Vice President, Academics ● Selected by peers as recipient of the Berkeley Haas Defining Leadership Principles.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Environmental Sciences - Renewable Energy Focal Area And Minor In Business Administration, 3.315

Activities and Societies: Finalist for the Mathews Medal Student Ambassador for the Environmental Sciences Program Student Ambassador.