Responsibilities/Accomplishments:Part of leadership team responsible for implementing innovative solutions to the company-wide strategic governance procedures, including business integration, operations, and planning.Engage with a variety of customer personality types and professional backgrounds to problem solve and provide solutions.Manage multiple projects involving 65+ employees across 4 departments simultaneously from inception to completion within the assigned time window.Created and continue to facilitate the LE&D (Leadership, Education & Development) Team responsible for internal education, employee development and engagement, community outreach, health & wellness and improving company culture.Developed and implemented continuous improvement for processes, including employee workflows across 4 departments.Implemented company-wide surveys to measure culture drivers and developed a plan to improve culture and leadership.

Responsibilities/Accomplishments:Piloted a large scope of projects and set the strategic business, financial and implementation road map. Coordinated all project team members, including architects, engineers, designers, installing contractors and suppliers throughout construction to ensure design criteria were met.Designed energy-efficient and sustainable lighting solutions for various projects, including themed retail; commercial; house of worship; residential; and automotive.Governed the decisions around projects budgetary restrictions with the range of $20k to $50M in value.Engaged with high profile clients including Disney, Ford, Chrysler, GM, and major architecture, engineering & design firms to execute design and construction goals. Developed a system for standardizing all documents and organizing various electronic and paper documentation to ensure businesses data integrity.Acted as liaison between all design team members to interpret intent and solve problems for a successful project outcome.

Graduate Research Assistant for Professor Mojtaba (Moji) Navvab,PhD, FIESResponsibilities included:Conducted research analyzing building energy consumption patterns and assisted to develop methods to reduce building energy consumption through good lighting design, daylighting and controls technology.Developed systems to process raw data from monitoring devices and use it to create graphs and tables for presentations and academic publications.Operated and maintained the "Full-scale Simulation Lab" and "Skydome" for lighting and daylighting analysis.

Coordinated 3 discussion sections for 60 students in an upper-level lecture/discussion class.Responsibilities included: facilitating discussions; grading papers and projects; dealing with a wide variety of personalities and maturity levels; and giving a lecture to the full 180 student class.