David Jenicek, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

Grafton, Ma, Us

North Grafton, Massachusetts, Us

Company co-founder. • Acquired a broken, but permitted food waste upcycling site out of Ch. 11• Developed and presented pitches, carried through investor diligence, closed series A at $18M valuation• General'ed the engineering, procurement, and construction of a 16 ton-per-hour food waste-to-animal feed conversion process at the peak of COVID-related global supply chain problems. 7 months from concept to first production. Approximately $2.1M build.• Navigated local and state (MassDEP) regulatory bodies during an extensive re-permitting effort• Led restoration and reconstruction efforts after equipment damage caused by a fire. Not a single customer experienced service outage despite 6 weeks of plant downtime.

Mclean, Virginia, Us

Advanced newly-formed US branch’s mission to build a leading management consultancy for utilities and adjacent industries. Focus topics include: corporate innovation fund strategy, sustainability strategy, infrastructure resilience, small/medium business engagement strategy. Project engagements:• Utility M&A (6 months): Prepared the future organizational model and consolidated an ambitious synergies target for a major utility M&A project. Facilitated key design workshop involving 120 department managers (both sides of transaction).• Cybersecurity program management (5 months): Led one of ten workstreams as part of an enterprise-wide cybersecurity overhaul at a gas and electric utility

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Responsible for design and specification of instrumentation and electrical facilities for plant operations.• Led initiatives to identify new opportunities to increase plant performance and reliability. Scoped new projects; coordinated contractors and site teams to execute.• Developed complete set of instrument engineering packages for shutdown, repair, upgrade, and startup scope on planned 8-week, $70M unit turnaround. Part of 10-person team coordinating >300 contractors.• Troubleshot time-sensitive plant failures and worked with a multi-disciplinary team to design and implement solutions. Awarded four commendations for leadership on separate successes.• Led formal investigation into root-cause failure that resulted in >$1M financial losses.• Developed maintenance and reliability strategies on $1.2M/day unit; demonstrated improved margins and unit rates.• Interacted daily with vendors, reviewed engineering designs and had technical approval authority over proposals and quotes up to $250k.

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Pre-front-end engineering design (pre-FEED) of 300 MW electrical distribution system for $50B, 2m ton/year joint venture LNG project.• Reviewed and red-lined engineering contractor designs and ensured compliance with national code (NEC) and ExxonMobil standards• Assisted Lead Electrical Engineer in defending multiple facilities design bases, and provided final recommendation to Engineering Manager• Published a comprehensive internal study on the use of large (50+ MW) electric machines in different industries.

Somerville, Massachusetts, Us

Oversaw front-end electrical engineering design for airborne wind turbine system, including an airborne generator and power electronics, cable, and base-station power conditioning system. Fully autonomous unit is powered by steady and strong winds at 600m altitude, converting to reliable electricity in isolated areas that are difficult to reach by diesel trucks• Led technical discussions and reviews with vendors and third-party engineering consultants, and owned final recommendations made to CEO• Entered into procurement discussions with local and international suppliers, scoping ~$200k worth of specialized electrical equipment.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Heavily experiment-based research with the aim to discover new surface treatment techniques to improve the energy density of carbon-nanotube capacitor electrodes • Highly cross-disciplined efforts, intersecting chemical engineering, materials science, electrochemistry, electrical engineering, mechanical design, thermodynamics, and fluid dynamics.• Managed thesis committee of four professors, each from different departments• Supervised 3 undergraduate researchers, one of whom co-authored peer-reviewed article and won MIT's Best Undergraduate Researcher award.• Research methods led to 5x increase in specific surface area [m²/m3] of CNT structure• Extensive use of physical and chemical vapor deposition, atomic force microscopy, HR-scanning electron microscopy

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Graduate research assistant in a team consisting of 3 faculty and 2 post-docs. Modeled, optimized, designed, and fabricated an extremely low-profile (4x4x0.2") brushless DC motor, including controls, for use in a high-density heat sink.Completed Master's thesis January 2011.

• Led team of 30 to recruit 20 new members, one of the fraternity's most successful recruitment efforts in history• Organized and oversaw logistics and execution of 23 events over 7 days. Stayed within $23k allotted budget.

Controlled and managed non-profit $400k budget for 50-person living space.• Responsible for all bill payments, tax preparations, and grant applications• Proposed and led debt payment plans and collections for delinquent tenants• Prepared and ratified following fiscal year's budget

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Part of 4-person team on client-site in the oleo-chemical industry. Cost-cutting and debt repayment focus.• Consolidated procurement and negotiated with suppliers to realize savings of $3.5M (10%) on purchases• Developed 5-year cash flow model based on different purchase schemes and debt payment plans; presented directly to client CFO.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Electrical Engineering, Management Science

Electrical Engineering

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