• Lead the development of renewable energy projects, overseeing project siting, due diligence, permitting, and compliance activities to ensure project success.• Effectively manage land acquisition and divestment activities, including cultivating strong landowner relationships, administering land contracts, and coordinating ALTA surveys with Title Companies and Land Surveyors.• Collaborate extensively with cross-functional internal stakeholders, including Development, Finance, Legal, Executive Management, and Operations, to secure necessary approvals and commitments for projects.• Proactively engage with local officials, state and federal agencies, non-profits, tribes, and local communities to present project progress, goals, potential impacts, and mitigation strategies developed in consultation with Development team members.• Successfully evaluate, select, and manage consultants for field surveys, technical analyses, reports, and permitting documentation, ensuring high-quality deliverables and compliance with project timelines.• Ensure project feasibility through rigorous siting analysis, budget tracking, and maintaining a schedule of deliverables, contributing to the successful execution of projects.

• Provide project management support by coordinating with multi-disciplinary teams, engaging with clients, preparing schedules, tracking project progress, tracking action items, and coordinating document editing with publications specialists to support the development of solar, wind, and Battery Energy Storage System projects.• Prepare Critical Issue Analysis reports for potential renewable energy sites in order to identify, evaluate, and recommend project sites with few environmental constraints and preferable jurisdictional permitting processes.• Author a variety of clear, concise technical project documents, including project descriptions, permit application documentation, CEQA sections, NEPA documentation, technical memoranda, and other environmental assessment and land use planning deliverables.

• Managed multiple projects and environmental documents simultaneously while collaborating with various internal teams, including engineers, GIS analysts, and Subject Matter Experts to creatively solve tasks and produce a diverse range of timely, high-quality deliverables for clients in various industries including renewable energy, electricity, public agencies, and high-speed rail.• Prepared applications for permits under the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, California Coastal Commission, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.• Provided assistant project management by coordinating with project teams, drafting budgets and change orders, and coordinating with teaming partners to assemble weekly field schedules.• Provided contract management and proposal support on a multi-million dollar utility contract and other projects.

• Conducted individual experiment to analyze the variation within soil pH measurement methods. Maintained detailed record of research methods and compiled, analyzed, and presented data for Terrestrial Earth Surface Processes group meeting.• Utilized the soil study to make recommendations for future lab work.• Collected gas and soil samples in the field and conducted measurements in the lab using a Licor Infrared Gas Analyzer, pH probe, and electroconductivity probe.

• Researched, collected, and analyzed policy data to provide the planning staff support in land use planning activities, policy development, and the development of environmental compliance documents including the Coastal Resiliency Plan and the Energy and Climate Action Plan.• Served the public at the Zoning Desk by kindly and clearly responding to zoning inquiries and providing information regarding the General Plan, zoning, and County regulations to residents who sought to develop or build additions.• Prepared a 20-page executive report of Cal Fire’s Vegetation Management Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Report in order to prepare County planning staff to recommend appropriate action.• Supported desktop and field data findings by performing data entry and analysis on Excel spreadsheets consisting of 20,000+ data points with research about residential buildout in support of the Transportation Plan update.