• Responsibilities include providing Business Development and Sales Support in North America and managing new strategic relationships for Splight's game changing GETs (grid-enhancing technologies) and software solutions that increase the flexibility, capability, and reliability of the power grid.• Support company leadership with market intelligence, conference and trade show support services, and managing mutually successful customer communications.

• Currently serve as Business Development and Strategy Advisor in supporting and managing new client relationships in Renewable Energy and Cleantech, Infrastructure and PPP (Public Private Partnerships), and Construction sectors across North America.• Provide clients with strategic advice pertaining to government procurement issues including how to navigate complex public solicitations, and forming winning teams and consortiums.• Support clients with market intelligence, professional conference and trade show support services, and managing successful customer communications.

Responsibilities include leading comprehensive company recruitment and hiring procedures, building talent pipelines for current and future position needs, and managing our external partnerships with colleges, job boards and HR technology partners as well as the communities where we live and work.External Affairs responsibilities include forging and supporting strong relationships with key stakeholders, and bridging internal and external teams to ensure excellent delivery of company commitments.

• Broad duties include HR Management and Recruiting support to CEO and company leadership, including operations support and external affairs including public engagement.• Participate in the financial success of the company by identifying cost savings and revenue sources, monitoring marketplace trends, and de-risking new initiatives.• Also manage international imports/exports including pongamia bean supply chain logistics, freight forwarding, hubbing and consolidation, and order processing for TerViva's growing products division.

• Provided management and operational support to CEO, board and company leadership, including operations, external affairs including public engagement, and human resources.• Participate in the financial success of the company by identifying cost savings and revenue sources, monitoring marketplace trends, and de-risking new initiatives.• Established and managed operations at two Texas Research stations for agricultural chemical and biofuel company. • Created key research partnerships with Universities and Research Institutions across country, and developed grant opportunities with the USDA and the Farm Service Agency handling all proposals and written submittals.

• Responsibilities include providing Business Development and Sales Support and managing key client relationships in Renewable Energy and Cleantech, including grid-enhancing technologies, and demand response programs. • Support key clients Splight and Ohmconnect with market and regulatory intelligence, and managing successful customer communications.

• For this leading Global Law Firm, I served as a US Business Development Specialist and Capture Manager charged with identifying and creating new client relationships in Energy, Construction, Infrastructure and PPP (Public Private Partnerships), and Telecommunication sectors across North America.• Contracted and coordinated rail transportation ROW project analyzing a pre-condemnation agreement with an intl railroad operator seeking exclusive rights to operate a rail line on a public right-of-way to be acquired by negotiation or eminent domain.• Provided clients like Veolia Water North America with strategic advice including how to navigate complex public sector solicitations, and forming winning teams and consortiums.

• Developed several greenfield wind and solar energy project sites with diverse land partners, ranging from the Federal Bureau of Land Management to state and private landowners in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.• Provided strategy and communications-related leadership on governmental, regulatory and public information matters including public engagement campaigns.• Managed FAA and DoD Site Review and Screenings for Military Radar Interference and Air Traffic Flight Paths, as well as Environmental Compliance including NEPA and State Regulations.

• Provided business development, strategy, and communications-related services for clients seeking governmental or public approvals for a wide range of projects and issues.• Clients included Siemens Mobility Group, Fotowatio Renewable Ventures, Piper Jaffray’s Hotel Finance Group, Symantec Corp’s Government Group, and a major New Mexico University.• Led workshops with public administrators to support product teams, review project delivery methods and evaluate innovative public finance options.

• Responsible for developing new public-private real estate construction opportunities; succeeded in closing over $1 billion in contracts and contributed to exponential growth for company. • Functioned as lead proposal developer from project identification through proposal submission. • Led pursuit team in successfully completing historic public-private hotel developments across the country, including the Hilton Austin Bergstrom International Airport Hotel, the Hilton Austin Convention Hotel Project, the Hilton Omaha Convention Hotel, and 3 military guest hotels for the United States Army, as well as a residential community for the United States Air Force. • Marketed and contracted a half billion dollars of correctional, judicial and detention projects for federal, state and county governments, as well as public school projects of all levels for local school districts.

• Responsible for marketing and contracting energy efficiency performance contracts with state, local governments and school districts across Texas. • Successful school projects included lighting retrofits, chiller replacements including thermal energy storage, and the addition of DCC systems.

• Contributed to the development and construction of the first utility-scale wind powered energy generation plant in Texas, owned and operated by the Lower Colorado River Authority and the City of Austin.• Worked with governing state regulatory agencies, and was a member of the legislative affairs team that pursued the broad statutory changes necessary to enable and authorize the Texas Wind Project. • Marketed and contracted energy efficiency performance contracts with governmental entities of all kinds, including schools and local governments.• Completed projects included lighting, hvac, thermal energy storage, and DDC controls.

• Served as contract marketing coordinator for the Texas Governor’s State Energy Conservation Office.• Marketed, coordinated, and tracked the activity of 27 engineering firms contracted by the Governor’s Office under the auspices of the LoanSTAR Program to provide technical assistance and financing for energy conservation projects to local governments and school districts.• Successfully marketed and developed several energy efficiency and water conservation projects for the retrofitting of public buildings and other facilities to conserve electricity, fuels and water.

• Reorganized the Field Marketing office to maximize service to 9 Regional Offices across the state, and provided marketing assistance pertaining to State oil and gas production and other land asset management programs.

• Served as Executive Assistant to Texas Commissioner of Agriculture Jim Hightower.• Traveled extensively throughout Texas and the United States providing marketing assistance for Texas commodities and products.• Promoted innovative, sustainable land and resource management programs for farmers, small businesses and various governmental entities.