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Boulder, Co, Us

Boulder, Co, Us

Boulder, Co, Us

Responsible for the ultimate success of Uplight’s demand management and rates solutions in the market.• Work with product, engineering, sales, marketing, and executives in setting and evolving the product strategy, go-to-market plan, solution design, strategic partnerships, and market positioning.• Established and lead Uplight’s sales engineering team, supporting a 30% growth in Uplight revenue.• Evaluate M&A opportunities, and lead product marketing integration for creation of Uplight.

Boulder, Co, Us

An elected Member-At-Large of the Energy Impact Offset Fund steering committee, I along with fellow committee members oversee the fund, making recommendations to the Board of County Commissioners on the best uses of the fund monies to make meaningful impacts across Boulder County towards energy efficiency and renewable energy.

Washington, Dc, Us

Identified as an expert in the systems integration research field and the progression of innovation in energy, I have been invited to evaluate the merit of the industry proposals to help ensure that public funds are being invested to achieve the maximum impact.- July to September 2019 - Solar Energy Technologies Office $130 million in funding for up to 80 projects that will advance research in solar energy technologies. - March to June 2021 - (FOA-0002459) APRA-E OPEN-2021 to support high-risk R&Dleading to the development of potentially disruptive new technologies across the full spectrumof energy applications.

Portland, Or, Us

Becon Health was an online platform for health professionals to deliver services over video. • Lead the web developer / IT team with focus on commercial operations, sustainable growth, and compliance with cybersecurity and privacy legislation, standards and best practice.• Secured $170k in government grants to design, develop and launch the platform MVP in market.

Townsville, Queensland, Au

Leader of multi-disciplinary teams of subject matter experts who engages with leaders and staff across the business to develop and drive the strategic transformation of the organization.• Delivered the Future Grid Roadmap to holistically guide the transformation of our business in response to the emerging disruption of changing customer behaviors, technology, commercial models, and regulations.• Oversee and lead high-profile R&D initiatives that involve partnership with universities, vendors, and government – centered on IoT, customer data analytics, demand response, and system orchestration. • Led development of Energy Queensland’s long term strategic direction, guided by an assessment of external environmental conditions, competitive forces, and techno-economic scenario modeling.• Developed, established and lead Energy Queensland’s innovation framework.• Lead due diligence of strategic early-to-mid stage start-up investments in energy sector ($1 to $10 million AUD), including leading the development of a supporting strategic investment framework.• Established a new team, and manage staff development and performance, budgets, and business planning.

Melbourne, Vic, Au

The first utility representative ever elected to the committee, I guided policy and priorities regarding distributed energy resources for the Clean Energy Council - the peak industry body for renewable energy in Australia.

Barton, Act, Au

Elected on a two-year term to the largest member state of this national body, as a committee we set the strategic direction of the division, providing leadership to office bearers and staff, and administering organisational governance within Queensland. The committee is the voice of the Engineers Australia and its 20,000 Queensland members, working with government, industry, academia, and the broader public.A key focus for me has been ensuring a focus on driving sustainable investment planning with government, and that as an organisation regional and minority members are appropriately supported.

Rydalmere, Nsw, Au

Appointed to the inaugural steering committee, I was responsible for providing direction and strategic guidance for the alliance, as well as advocacy for energy storage in Australia.The Australian Energy Storage Alliance is an information sharing and networking platform to promote the wide range of existing and emerging energy storage solutions that are available in Australia.

Commencing trading in 2013 in Townsville, Be Psyched has grown its reach to support greater North Queensland area, with a focus on enabling people to grow through career and counselling services. • Manage commercial and financial activities, doubling the business year-on-year.• Secured government funding to develop a solution for addressing mobility challenges in allied health treatment, and establishing strategic partnership with CQ University.

Townsville, Queensland, Au

Provide strategic leadership to transform engineering at JCU in response to market and technology changes.

Belrose, Nsw, Au

HWNS is a $280 million not-for-profit, dedicated to giving people with a disability greater choice and control. In my tenure we achieved a 50% increase in the organization to establish one of Australia’s largest NFPs, through• Successfully transferring to HWNS $50m of government supported living services – including clients and staff.• Merging with The Tipping Foundation to expand reach and become a nation-wide organization.

Townsville, Qld, Au

Technical, regulatory, stakeholder, and commercial considerations were core to this role, as the senior SME.• Established world leading connection policy and standards for inverter-based generation.• Led from concept to realization a change in electricity regulations to enable improved solar PV uptake and energy affordability, balancing technical and commercial challenges, and stakeholder buy-in.• Achieved regulatory approval for a $24M program to improve customer outcomes with solar PV.In 2016 I led a sub-stream of the $24 billion merger of Ergon Energy and Energex, establishing a new energy services business – including product development, operating structure, and investment model. • Led the evaluation of the strategic risk and opportunity, and benchmarking of Community Power Systems. • Developed a new community solar product, commercial model, and go-to-market plan.From February to May 2015 I was an executive officer to the Executive General Manager of Network Optimization, gaining exposure to the responsibilities of executive and senior leaders, and providing technical and business support on several major projects for the EGM.

Townsville, Qld, Au

Led a $36 million smart grid program that was aimed at aiding the transition to the “Network of the Future”.• Led program oversight and governance, including managing the programs schedule, budget, and scope.• Awarded Premier Excellence in Leadership accolade for delivering on time, to scope and under budget.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Power system lead subject matter expert on $100 million EV charger program.• Evaluated the impacts of EV fast chargers on the electricity grid and opportunities for tariff optimization.• Developed product strategy and roadmap for launching ECOtality into USA demand response markets.

Milan, It

As the “grid integration” lead within a multi-disciplinary, multi-national R&D team I:• Developed a novel modelling suite for financial and technical optimization of electricity networks.• Developed “grid of 2050” model to evaluate impacts of emerging technology and customer behaviors.

London, Greater London, Gb

PMO role in the development and delivery of £28 million smart grid pilot program.• Developed pilots for EVs, distributed generation, active network management, smart meters, and DR.• Led program and project management functions.

Townsville, Qld, Au

Led and delivered asset management and operational projects at a large electricity distribution utility. Key areas of responsibility included protection, planning, testing and investigations, customer connections, modeling, analytics, substation operations, SCADA and control systems, and alternative energy solutions.

Bachelor Of Engineering (Honours), Electrical

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration, Management And Entrepreneurship

Gold Medallion, Advanced Lifesaving

Certificate Iii In Public Safety (Pua31304), Aquatic Search And Rescue