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San Jose, California, United States

Counsel for San José Clean Energy.

Monterey, California, United States

• Served as lead in-house legal officer for the geographically largest community choice energy aggregator agency in California, with a $430MM annual budget, over 5,200 GWh of retail load, and 400,000+ accounts across 35 member cities and counties on the central coast.• Supported the CEO, Policy Board of Directors, Operations Board of Directors, and department heads with guidance and legal advice regarding contracts, municipal law, regulatory and legislative affairs, public finance, energy supply transactions, and ethics.• Managed a significant litigation caseload in a turbulent energy market and regulatory environment.• Oversaw and collaborated with outside counsel.• Reviewed and recommended internal policies for administration, communications, programs, finance, human resources, operations, customer engagement, risk management, and external advocacy.

Monterey, California, United States

Monterey, Ca

Monterey Bay Community Power is a locally-controlled public agency providing carbon-free electricity to residents and businesses in Monterey, San Benito and Santa Cruz Counties. MBCP matches PG&E electric generation rates and pays each account holder a minimum 3% rebate while maximizing greenhouse gas reduction, stabilizing and reducing customer rates, and investing in local energy projects and programs.

Santa Cruz, Ca

• Advised organizations on strategy, formation, corporate structure, intellectual property, partnering agreements, contracts, regulatory policy, and fundraising in the form of grant proposals and venture capital solicitations.• Acted as Chief Operating Officer for atmospheric water generation startup DewH2O, bringing to market a plug-in device capable of providing fresh water from air in very dry environments.

Santa Cruz, Ca

The AVG Select Fund provides individual investors access to high-quality venture capital investments. Investors own a portfolio of 20-30 deals diversified across focus, stage, industry, and sector, co-invested alongside top VCs. Deals are programmatically selected from overall AVG deal flow to correlate with the diversification of the venture industry.

• Advocated for member companies in the governance of the CEEIC and its advancement of effective energy efficiency and demand response policies in California.• Chair of Political Action Committee, led fundraising and partner outreach to support candidates aligned with CEEIC objectives of creating sustainable jobs, fostering long-term economic growth, developing reasonably priced energy infrastructure, and promoting environmental responsibility.

• Hired, trained, and led a new team of client engagement professionals to support complex deployments of an energy data analytics software platform.• Oversaw 300% growth in value of Western region contracts through expansion of existing projects and supporting sales to new clients.• Established a San Francisco office to develop local presence for the Boston area-based company.• Provided training, launch, project support, and customer success management for deployments across over a dozen utilities and program implementer clients.

• Built and led program management, sales, operations, technical services, and development teams to annually deliver 50MM+ kWh in energy program savings for utility clients.• Provided strategic leadership and planning for the environmental nonprofit’s commercial energy efficiency services, program design, and program implementation.• Developed new contracts and strengthened relationships with investor-owned and publicly-owned utilities, local governments, and the U.S. Department of Energy for multi-year program funding in excess of $40MM.

Santa Cruz, Ca

• Led business development efforts in providing energy efficiency program design and implementation for California utilities and governments.• Synthesized shifting regulatory policies, market behavior, and technology emergence into a successful vision for organizational growth and adaptation in support of the mission to provide cost-effective and practical resource conservation solutions.• Partnered with technology manufacturers, finance companies, and other organizations to launch innovative programs with new utility, municipal, and federal clients.

• Supervised organization’s energy division, consisting of program managers and staff implementing energy efficiency programs for utilities throughout California.• Supported program teams with strategic direction and tactical day-to-day problem-solving.• Responsible for the negotiation and successful delivery of all program contracts. • Managed growth of divisional contracts from $20MM to over $30MM.• Impacts include delivering over 300 megawatts of cumulative energy savings to over 12,000 commercial customers.

Santa Cruz, Ca

• Managed team of program staff performing energy audits, selling retrofit projects, and managing installations of energy-efficient lighting, HVAC, refrigeration, and other measures at commercial sites. • Negotiated agreements with contractors and equipment suppliers. • Fostered client relationships resulting in expansion of program funding from $1M to $12MM. • Created program implementation, marketing, and management plans; trained and coached staff; tracked budgets, cost-effectiveness, and performance; generated and submitted monthly, quarterly, and annual reports; performed QA on installations; addressed customer disputes; developed and managed sales incentive structure; identified and vetted new energy-efficient technologies, delivery approaches, and markets; monitored regulatory changes.• Met all program targets on time, on budget, and with a 98% customer satisfaction rating across thousands of commercial customers.

• Evaluated proposed decisions, staff briefings, oral arguments, and party comments to make voting recommendations on various energy related proceedings before the Commission including: resource adequacy, flexible capacity markets, demand response, Chino Hills power line undergrounding, utility efficiency savings and performance incentives, and 21st century energy systems.• Represented the Commissioner in ex parte meetings with groups involved in proceedings before the Commission.• Prepared talking points delivered by the Commissioner in national presentations on demand response and smart grid technologies.

Sunnyvale, Ca

• Coordinated international team of resources in the development of a cross-platform Interactive Program Guide. • Transitioned team of 15 engineers from PC target development to an embedded device environment. • Drove relationship with Motorola Broadband Communications Sector in porting to DCT family of set-top boxes. • Delivered prototypes on Scientific Atlanta, Pace, and Fujitsu-Siemens hardware on multiple middleware platforms.• Led design, procurement, and technical build out of trade show demonstration booth featuring multiple demonstration stations for 3D program guide technology across diverse platforms with modular servers and digital cable headends.• Presented to investors, partners, potential customers, press, and industry publications.

Redwood City, Ca

• Worked with engineering, sales, product management, and business development to provide technical evangelism. • Responsible for producing technical white papers, collateral, product demonstrations, and competitive analysis.

Redwood Shores, Ca

• Lead company technical presence at all demonstrations of interactive television middleware, including trade shows, keynotes, pre-sales, and in-house. • Designed and implemented new Customer Visit Center showroom including full network operations center.

Juris Doctor

Activities and Societies: Law Review, Honors Moot Court, Environmental Law Society

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.)