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Seattle, Wa, Us

Responsible for North America, Australia, and South America footprint, strategically aligning Amazon’s infrastructure and energy supply expansion, while implementing fleet electrification. Lead all energy projects in collaboration with over 250 electric US utilities/energy companies, ensuring long-term power supply demands align with Amazon’s electric vehicle (EV) deployment and delivery station expansion plan.• Hired veteran, utility-based leaders; procured enough capacity (leveraging 250 US utilities), delivering more than 1M packages/week through EVs in 2022.• Focus on process optimization to mitigate OJT and reactive culture. Affected 350 work sites by proactively developing repeatable processes with documented training and guidelines.• Built strategy across 350+ delivery stations transitioning from combustion to EV engine and charging station technology while optimizing procurement, delivery, and operational metrics.• Lead execution of power infrastructure strategies. Build relationships with key utility stakeholders, work with internal and external engineering, real estate, and planning teams to evaluate delivery sites, and develop the electric infrastructure strategy to serve sites.• Evaluate and implement functional infrastructure and operational strategies within the energy sector, including advanced load control technologies, energy storage, demand response, and fuel cells.• Review energy projects, technical designs, and contracts with utilities and contractors.• Negotiate large-scale power infrastructure projects across North American geographies and stakeholder groups; evaluate opportunities to reduce energy capital and operating expenses.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Recruited to expertly liaise and negotiate for Southern Company/GPC on large-scale technical issues. Southern Company is a leading energy company serving 9M customers.• Led Distributed Energy Resource Team, developed strategy, and secured $100M+ funding for resilient, backup power generation and infrastructure upgrades for the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport by negotiating a five-party deal that solved a large government, public, and private conflict. This deal provided strategic and technical solutions benefitting all stakeholders.• Established initial organizational structure for the newly formed Distributed Energy Resources Team to develop and implement Southern Company’s strategy for non-intermittent, distributed energy resources.• Liaised for GPC and led negotiations with the Department of Defense to establish resilient regulated electric utility offerings for military installations.• Resolved concerns of high-profile customer and secured mutual win between involved parties.

Gulfport, Ms, Us

Assisted President in day-to-day affairs; focused on internal operations while President focused on external initiatives.• Led company-wide restructure and strategy refinement, meeting top quartile performance goals.• Successfully negotiated and executed strategies that secured a $2.2B+ deal.

Gulfport, Ms, Us

Delivered top quartile Customer Value Benchmark survey results (later converted to Net Promoter Score), overcoming years of highly publicized, negative press and media coverage.• Increased customer trust by addressing technical depth and competence of industrial and commercial customer sales/marketing team by meeting frequently to share knowledge and methods.• Confidentially, managed team hardship; led team through crisis by placing people over profit.

Gulfport, Ms, Us

Recruited to liaise, listen, address, and resolve Top 10 key client complaints to the Public Service Commission. • Resolved key client concerns by revamping business plan/billing structure to increase revenue and reduce station service costs; built client trust with transparent communications and fair negotiations.• Became a trusted extension of the customer’s business as a conduit for all energy needs.

Gulfport, Ms, Us

Promoted to address operational issues; led plant operations and maintenance teams (exempt, non-exempt, and union) to achieve 12 performance goals, including best Effective Forced Outage Rating (EFOR) on two combined-cycle blocks.• Safely mitigated deteriorated natural gas pipeline issues through war room strategy discussions with engineering, operations, and maintenance; maintained priority on safety and reliability.• Led technical plant review of all leak protection, outage, and condition-based maintenance (CBM) processes to get ahead of future outage-related issues. Process review served as a learning opportunity for new engineers and staff.• Delivered record-level performance results with 40% turnover (natural attrition and promotions).

Gulfport, Ms, Us

• Developed technical depth of junior engineering team by conducting after-hours systems training.• Implemented process improvements by initiating a Plant Review Board, System Owner Process, and Project Action Roadmap to promote project management due diligence.• Executed performance management strategy to build engaged, technical, data-driven, solutions team. • Improved coal unit cost and gas unit performance through new CBM practices.

Pensacola, Florida, Us

Plant Crist | Led coal equipment handlers and utilitymen that operated a barge andelectrohydraulic crane coal unloading facility with 16 beltlines for operations andsampling for 870+ MWs.

Pensacola, Florida, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Finance

Bs, Electrical Engineering

Bs, Mathematics