Braeden Gilchrist Email & Phone Number

Ohio, United States

Fusion Connect Product ManagerFusion Connect are the data upload and manager features within the Prism Data Visualization Platform.

Greater Cleveland

Created ETL processes for Direct Access (Developer API, BI SQL Connect, Excel Tools, and GIS Tools ) Usage Data. This resulted in easy to user usage summary dashboards.

Denver Metropolitan Area

• Led development of Dynamic Basins Studies Spotfire product which productized existing quarterly.pdf reports
• A major contributor to the Well Spacing Spotfire product and dynamic calculator
• Led the conversion of the legacy ETL processes to the new data model for Rig Analytics
• Led the creation of Pad Drilling Identification model and Rig Analytics revamp

Austin, Texas Area

• Performed operational analysis pre and post-acquisition of PRT, Oil-Law Records, and 1Derrick.
• Completed due-diligence work that included contract reviews, customer retention analysis, and financial modeling.

Austin, Texas Area

• Oil & Gas Data Research Analyst
• Led development of Rigs Analytics and Engineering Explorer tools: Spotfire UI design, SQL requirements & ETL
• Both Rigs Analytics and Engineering Explorer products grew to multi-million dollar annual revenue
• Performed root cause analysis on data anomalies and presented evidence for data-driven solutions
• Explored datasets for impactful insights that powered browser-based visualizations
• Wrote code for operator benchmarking analysis using R programming language

Ann Arbor, MI

• Clients: IEE of The Edison Foundation in Washington, D.C. and DTE Energy in Detroit, MI.Member of interdisciplinary team for Masters Project: "Policy Recommendations for the Evolving Electric Power Sector"
• Researching technology, policy, and economic status and trends of distributed energy resources (DER) across the U.S.
• Developing a model of utility rates to evaluate benefits, costs, and equitability of various DER policy scenarios.
• Surveying experts from utilities, regulators, consumer advocates, industry advocates, and other stakeholder groups.
• Proposing policy recommendations in a report for utility regulators to achieve DER goals and fair electricity rates.

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

• Calculated greenhouse gas emissions for Carbon Disclosure Project and benchmarked global footprint to reach reduction goal of 25%
• Analyzed energy savings projects for manufacturing facilities which saved thousands of dollars annually
• Assessed renewable energy projects in 3 countries by assessing energy policies and analyzing purchase of rooftop solar panels for manufacturing facilities

Golden, CO

• Contributed to analyzing variability of wind and solar resources across U.S. for major project at Strategic Energy Analysis Center and presented at the 2012 World Renewable Energy Forum
• Supported cutting-edge research in hybrid and plug-in vehicle efficiency by modeling thermal bottlenecks in power electronics that was selected to compete in 2010 Dept. of Energy’s Science and Energy Research Competition

Schenectady, NY

• Prioritized planning issues which lead to ~$1M warrantee agreement savings by clarifying which issues required planned maintenance, and which required expedited handling
• Streamlined commissioning checklist process by 50% by eliminating bottlenecks and updating approval process
• Enhanced customer communications by writing new technical documents that included explanations for new maintenance of over 10,000 wind turbines

Fort Wayne, Indiana Area

• Integrated product safety database to new tool platform
• Facilitated root cause analysis meetings that lead to new safety procedures and guidelines
• Performed reliability tests on products returned from field

M.S. Sustainable Systems, Energy Systems

Activities and Societies: ○ Ross Energy Club ○ Michigan Energy Club ○ Sustainable Systems Track Leader ○ SNRE Alumni Gateway.

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Renewable Energy Minor

Activities and Societies: Building Ohio's Sustainable Energy Future Research Project 2010-2012 Independent Collegian Weekly Columnist.