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San Francisco, CA, US

San Francisco, California, US

• ~Turning your biggest problems into opportunities.Supporting executive leadership of environmental organizations with their strategies for business, products, markets, programs & projects.Served: Google, Boston.
• Designed systems, business models, and transition program for +30,000 farmers across +80,000 hectares in Africa by remotely leading a global project team through a pandemic and civil unrest.
• Planned and coordinated a +$300,000 reforestation project from start-to-finish in 6 months amidst a pandemic and onsite wildfire in a California nature reserve for origination of carbon credits.
• Lead planting design and technical project drafting, including land preparation requirements and species selection
• Capacity development of environmental professionals through training and mentorships
• Developed conservation program for consumptive water use and local watershed for local government

Business, product, and operations advisory.

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Washington, DC, US

Reporting to CTO. Strategic support to executive leadership by coordinating resources and implementing technology solutions to drive market development and optimize business growth.

Washington, DC, US

Reporting to CPO.Digital Assets | Forward-Financing | Insurance | Secondary Market Instruments | Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT)Leading, developing, and implementing Verra's financial innovations (product and market) strategy to unlock and scale-up investment in climate action and sustainable development. Product discovery and product development.

Pasadena, CA, US

• Wildfire Disaster Recovery Program 2021-2022Wildfire footprint >1M acres across 5 counties including: Dixie, Caldor, Monument, RiverCamp, Fawn, McFarland, Lava, Antelope, & Sugar
• Planning and coordinating program resources with State of California, senior management, and vendors

• Co-founded a DeFi/AgTech startup
• Micro-loan issuance to smallholder farmers in developing nations through a mobile app that would provide early-stage financing via DMRV-produced dynamic non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and enhanced revenues to farmers via.
• Secured $325M of product interest as well as initiating, planning, and completing a feasibility study for a $4.5M smallholder farmer agroforestry pilot program in East Africa I had designed.
• Conducted feasibility study for $6.5M smallholder farmer agroforestry pilot program in East Africa
• Leading stakeholder engagement for dozens of international, local, and multisector partnerships to support programs including government, finance, research, agriculture, and technology institutions.
• Developing agroforestry transition designs, implementation, and management programs

Pasadena, CA, US

• Wildfire Disaster Recovery Program (Paradise Camp Fire 2018)
• Via the PMO: planning, implementing, managing, monitoring, controlling, and reporting on the $270M wildfire disaster recovery program encompassing +2,000 arborists and +$50M of equipment.
• Reduced weekly operating costs by $10,000 from increasing communication efficiency by 1,400% through improving the process and system for reporting and information distribution across departments.
• Quickly and safely removed 3.1M tons of debris, +25,000 hazardous trees, recovered +7,000 properties while managing public relations and coordinating with federal, state, and local government
• Monitored and controlled resources of 14 prime contractors with 30 subcontractors, consisting of +2k employees, and 900 pieces of heavy machinery;
• Managed public perception by demonstrating a high-level of integrity in all relationships and actions taken on and off duty.

• Built $5M smart-irrigation farm
• Native, edible, and climate-appropriate landscape projects were initiated, planned, and executed
• Responsible for branding, business development, marketing, client relationship management, sales, design, drafting, installation, invoicing, and accounting.
• Piloted aerial drones and generated 2D and 3D maps from aerial imagery for land use planning and design.

Groveland, California, US

• Installed a watershed conservation project that repurposes 14.5M litres of water per year through an industrial greywater system for a commercial laundry facility at a Yosemite National Park resort.
• Wildfire damaged areas were replanted with trees that are irrigated by the repurposed greywater that is restoring habitat and mitigating soil erosion. Drafted templates of low impact development (LID) AutoCAD.

• Acquired +40K followers in 60 days
• Created a mobile app and website for a digital education platform that taught food production, shelter-building, water collection and management, and natural medicine using homesteading methods to empower low-income.

Vancouver, BC, CA

Identified opportunity to reduce operation-cost losses by 25% through self-initiated research project, and proposed program to management for resolution.

Toronto, ON, CA

Retail banking and consumer lending services while taking Spanish, Finance, and Marketing courses at Concordia University

London, GB

Achieved 300% of the branch’s monthly sales targets in new business in my first 50 days. Achieved 25%-42% of the branch’s mortgage sales with my outbound lead acquisition, out of a team of 11 coworkers on a monthly basis. Defined and created my own unique role, objectives and key results by proactively initiating my own strategy.

San Francisco, California, US

• Consistently generated 200-300% over standard profit goals from referrals, products, and services sold.
• Nominated top Personal Banker in district by meeting and exceeding sales targets
• Personally visited and requested to maintain my career within Wells Fargo upon my resignation by Regional District Manager and West Coast Senior Marketing Executive President.

Plantings, basic construction of outdoor structures, vineyards, aquascapes, and hardscapes.

Irving, TX, US

Chief Product Officer Executive Scholar Certificate Program

Executive Master Of Business Administration Mba, Sustainability Management

Iso 14064 Greenhouse Gas (Ghg) Accounting & Reporting

Environmental Science

Finance, Computer Science, & Psychology

Spanish

Certification, Biophilic, Ecological & Autonomous Housing Construction & Design