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Providing sustainability leadership consulting to organizations. Supporting clients through identification of emerging trends, unearthing fresh business avenues, and swiftly identifying potential impacts, across multiple industries. Championing sustainability as a cornerstone business strategy, showcasing and implementing its myriad benefits as a key differentiator and catalyst for innovation across operations, products, and services.Creating decarbonization roadmaps, identifying paths to greenhouse gas reductions within the organization as well as externally across the supply chain.Supporting strategy through rigorous scenario planning processes.Enabling sustainability in the business by fostering understanding, engaging with internal and external stakeholders through education and relationship cultivation. With a customer-centric approach, orchestrating numerous triumphs in business expansion, employee involvement, and external accolades for both business and corporate leaders.Recent work includes:• Supported US EPA’s CRPG Grants merit reviews as formal reviewer. Evaluated grant applications utilizing criteria for anticipated outcomes, community benefits, job quality, past performance and budget. CPRG awarded 25 applicants over $4.3 B in CPRG Implementation Grants, funding projects in 30 states for local, state and Tribal entities.• Conducted five-phase scenario assessment for large organization to inform sustainable business strategy. Assessment included 25+ interviews, scenario development, action plan and facilitation of in-person scenario assessment. Work resulted in desired action plan and stakeholder alignment.• Supported organization with specific subject matter expertise, creating compliance strategy and execution plan for California’s Rule 2305 – Warehouse Actions and Investments to Reduce Emissions (WAIRE) Program, complimenting the organization's existing strategy.

Huntersville, Nc, Us

As the Vice President of Sustainability at a $5.9B revenue company, I positioned ATD as a leader in the automotive aftermarket by integrating sustainability across the value chain, forging new partnerships. This strategic approach reduced risk, garnered industry recognition, aligned employees and generated new revenue streams.Key achievements include:• Cultivating a sustainable company culture through regular stakeholder communications and employee micro training, boosting overall engagement to 81% in 2022.• Launching a Tire Recycling service, scaling from 9 to over 80 distribution centers by 2023, with a goal of collecting 35 M units annually, navigating environmental regulations and embracing circular economy principles.• Enhanced transparent reporting of environmental, social, and governance metrics aligned with GRI, TCFD, SASB and the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, with a focus on improving environmental impacts and increasing diversity, equity, inclusion, and employee wellbeing.• Accelerated fleet decarbonization by transitioning from diesel to electric vehicles, deploying EVs and charging infrastructure across mixing centers and distribution centers; utilizing incentives for capital efficiency.• Advanced development and implementation of customized AI emissions platform for comprehensive GHG reporting and scenario assessments across operations, supply chain, and sustainability functions; provides supplier and customer-specific GHG reporting• Proactively engaging in environmental regulations, enabling tire recycling services while ensuring compliance with programs like California's WAIRE Program and CARB's Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation.• Established ATD as a clear leader in sustainability within the automotive aftermarket, minimizing environmental impacts, reducing carbon emissions, energy consumption, and waste generation through innovative strategies and partnerships.

Davidson, North Carolina, Us

Led the new sustainability strategy globally across all functions and businesses. Initiated strategy with materiality assessment inclusive of stakeholders. Published first sustainability report following GRI in year one; submitting responses to DJSI, EcoVadis and CDP. • Provided transparent, assured ESG reporting following applicable standards and protocols; increased disclosures to align with SASB and TCFD; move company to recognized top quartile ESG performance. Created new credibility and lowered risk. Company now has a CDP A rating.• Established climate strategy including Scope 3; targets provide substantial impact reductions for customer-use phase; goals across all 5 business units with specific targets and metrics while standardizing data reporting.• Partnered/coached/consulted/collaborated with executive leaders, cross-functional teams and SMEs on ESG targets driving higher performance while executing sustainability-embedded business strategy through goal alignment.• Designed strategy moving operations to fully renewable; 8.5% of energy moved to renewable in year 1; transitions company to 50% renewable energy in operations globally in three years providing RE100 acceptance.• Publication of new human rights policy and processes, proactively identifying potential human rights issues systematically across value chain; supporting/ tracking diversity & inclusive goals to increase under-represented talent.• Updated governance to mitigate adverse effects; code of conduct revision increased coverage for code from 77% to 100%.• Created company product stewardship strategic direction; aligning product design with business and enterprise-level sustainability goals utilizing sustainability tools/ processes during NPD.• Established policy and trade influence tracking for contributions and expenditures to further transparent reporting; improved coverage - 62% to 100% in year two.

Davidson, North Carolina, Us

Identified recognition opportunities and designed tracking processes to successfully create thought leadership opportunities. Managed the Center for Energy Efficiency & Sustainability (CEES) project portfolio providing stakeholder reporting and ensuring consistent positive project performance. Managed sustainability initiatives across enterprise, providing continued project discipline and structure for the company's sustainability endeavors. Ensured leaders’ focus on high-impact areas while managing progress against key targets.• Created product stewardship program for NPD processes across company• Managed company’s Climate Commitment announcement, designed tracking processes for product GHG then transitioned work to team analyst• Managed company’s nomination and acceptance of multiple sustainability awards• Established and led multiple scenario planning events in response to developing trends; delivered business-specific strategies with action plans including identified triggers for strategy change· Chaired enterprise Codes & Standards committee across businesses; led internal sustainability strategy council; supported/co-facilitated external sustainability advisory council· Designed strategy, tools and processes for Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs), modified strategy as trends evolved in the market; completed multiple product LCA studies in accordance with ISO 14025 and 14040, EN 15804, resulting in published Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs)· Supported DJSI and CDP submittals working with functional SMEs resulting in 9 continuous years listed on DJSI

Davidson, North Carolina, Us

Program Management Office, Program Manager working with Core Systems team supporting enterprise projects. Coordinate benchmarking, facilitate Kaizen events, lead teams in process improvements, onboard new team members, and manage Enterprise Technology reporting.Program manager for the Top Line Margin Expansion project which included all of Ingersoll Rand’s businesses working to achieve a net margin increase offsetting material inflation costs. Also led large-scale global projects such as Asset Disposition project to standardize and centralize services across the company to gain the best value for surplus assets. Technology program manager for integration in acquisition of Trane Air-conditioning. Also managed Transition Service Agreements (TSAs) for divestiture of construction business to Doosan Infracore and Volvo Construction companies. Both roles were global, requiring travel to multiple international locations.

Reston, Virginia, Us

Project manager assigned to IT. Worked on a variety of projects across the US. Assigned projects included Sprint PCS, Millenium Power Plant, Athens Power Plant, Aracaria Power Plant, DC Cook Nuclear Plant, and Sharon Harris Nuclear Power Plant. Last assignment was four years on an engineering and construction project of a vitrification plant for nuclear waste for DOE in Richland, WA.