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Portola Valley, CA, US

Seattle, WA, US

Project and process consulting, focused on operational excellence in solar performance and asset management.

Seattle, WA, US

Advisor to industry-leading PV Solar performance and service monitoring and guarantee provider for residential and commercial/industrial customers.

Advisor to American Solar Repair, a fast-growing and award-winning solar repair and maintenance company with a quality team of employees dedicated to world-class customer service and quality and timeliness of work.

Downtown Redwood City, California, US

Menlo Park, CA, US

Mainspring Energy is leading the way towards low-carbon energy by deployment of a new category of power generation--a linear generator--for which the company has earned numerous patents. Mainspring's generator delivers onsite, flexible fuel power at lower costs and lower carbon than the grid, for commercial & industrial client base nationwide.

Rancho Cordova, California, US

Expanded North America's leading Residential, C&I Operations and Maintenance services provider during solar PV industry transformation. Supported private equity raise of $10MM prior to O&M consolidation/roll-up to NovaSource.-Led strategy, business development, and sales operations functions to win new revenue from leading solar asset owners-Strengthened.

Herzliya, Israel, IL

Successfully executed a plan (starting in pre-IPO timeframe) to develop leading residential and commercial solar services, building a nationwide team from 15 to 100 professionals and establishing a centralized Technical Support Call Center with associated business processes.Led the customer service team to provide world-class customer support, including.

Richmond, California, US

--Managed over 2 GW of utility, C&I, and residential assets of the SunPower fleet, from 2kw to 250MW in size--Developed global strategy and roadmap for O&M services and monitored key performance indicators for the business.--Improved solar plant asset performance and cut average system outage duration in half by implementing "follow-the-sun" Command Center.

Richmond, California, US

Implemented new project commissioning and controls cycle with EPC team to scale the fleet while meeting construction delivery and handover milestones.Responsible for field operations for SunPower's utility-scale, commercial, and residential solar fleet. This includes all front-line technical support, solar performance management, and all associated service.

Richmond, California, US

General Manager for 400+ employee captive and outsourced shared service organizations in Manila, Philippines and 85 employee Call Center in Katowice, Poland. Team provided a full suite of back-office services to internal and external customers under service level agreements (SLAs).

Richmond, California, US

Responsible for the entire customer experience lifecyle within SunPower's Value-Added Reseller (VAR) Dealer network. Established internationally-based customer service center to support B2B and B2C customers.

San Mateo, CA, US

• Managed operations department to insure timely and accurate delivery of services to 250,000 customers, including production and reconciliation of $400MM in annual financial transactions
• Responsible for successful outcome of SAS 70 audit and liaison for Operations for SOX compliance. Implemented processes to improve internal audit controls across the enterprises.

San Mateo, CA, US

Directed Account Management and customer service functions for B2B accounts, including 75+ of the Fortune 500

• Established the sales and sales operations functions, including contract review, revenue modeling, and RFP development process. Trained a sales team of four, resulting in the addition of 100+ new clients in less than.
• Managed the Operations Department, with 5 direct reports and 55 employees under secondary management. Established and managed department budgets. Created operational metric forecast and tracking tools
• Negotiated, and built strategic business partnerships with Intuit, Automated Data Processing, and WebMD
• Led Business Plan and modeling initiatives from Series A through Series D venture capital financing, raising $22M in capital. Corporate Secretary to the Board.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Managed construction progress of a $6mm water treatment plant construction project
• Led a project team of 4 consultants in development of an engineering design change-tracking database, improving company record management for the firm’s largest client

Master'S, Earth Systems

Bachelor Of Science, Earth Systems