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Saint George'S, Saint George, Gd

Regional Energy Advisor based in the Eastern Caribbean with global expertise and a strong background in the energy sector, in sector policy and regulatory development, energy efficiency and renewable energy regulations and investments. Supporting the work program of the World Bank in the Caribbean region with particular focus on Saint Lucia, Dominica, St Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada.• Assist to coordinate and maintain partnership with relevant government agencies, regulators, utilities and other stakeholders for effective implementation of on-going and planned technical assistances. • Provide expert inputs to the WB team in the identification of sector issues, the development of country specific energy sector strategies and for WB support in technical assistance and lending operations for the client countries.• Provide expert inputs to the design, preparation, and supervision of ongoing and planned technical studies and advisory activities, assist with data collection and analysis, review of WB hired consultants’ outputs, selection of consultants, and oversee facilitation of consultation with local stakeholders.• Effectively identified bottlenecks and issues during WB activities implementation and provide expert inputs and advices on solutions, and follow up on the implementation of agreed actions.• Assist the WB team to liaise and maintain partnership with relevant regional organizations and donors.

St. George’S, Grenada

Regulatory Executive responsible for managing the day to day functions of the Commission and providing technical advice in the fulfillment of its duties of implementing policies, plans and programs to provide an enabling environment for renewables investments and for the regulation of the electricity sector. Perform the role of Secretary/ex-officio member of the Commission.• Review legislation and regulation to ensure compliance with the provisions of these instruments over which the Commission has jurisdiction and provide the responsible Minister with technical advice in respect to matters administered by the Commission.• Lead, review and supervise four regulatory analyst for the technical analysis of all regulatory implementation such as electricity tariff/rate setting, licensing, renewable investments and procurement and sustainable energy programs.• Provide sound technical advice to the Commission on all regulatory matters and recommend regulatory actions to be taken in respect of the electricity sector for the country.• Effective and timely planning, execution, managing, and reporting on the progress of the PURC’s annual fiscal budget, strategy and work plans to include stakeholder engagements, capacity building and implementing the regulatory framework in conjunction with the supervision and support on all administrative and technical tasks related to the operations of the Commission.• Institute and maintain proper internal controls and financial systems to manage and protect the PURC’s assets together with plausible human resource development and management plans and to make recommendations to the Commission.• Represent the Commission in all meetings and discussion with local, regional and international governmental, multi-lateral, developmental and private sector utility stakeholders whilst promoting widespread understanding of the technical and regulatory role and functions of the PURC.

St. George’S, Grenada

Key responsible for developing technical and performance standards for public utilities, monitoring performance against standards and related studies in addition to supporting the Commission in the fulfillment of its duties. • Worked with the Chief Executive Officer to draft, review and provide timely and efficient feedbacks on the development of key electricity regulations to aid in meeting the obligations of the enacted Electricity Supply Act for Grenada.• Represented and lead on behalf of the Commission in Technical engagements with consultants, the utility and other external parties. Whilst ensuring compliance, to broaden understanding of the role and duties of the Commission and for the development of key regulatory instruments and programs.• Effectively supervised the activities of the office in the absence of the Chief Executive Officer - this included the execution of the PURC attendance at local conferences. • Utilized information technology expertise to aid for the smooth running of all aspects of the office - internet; document processing issues and all other information technology related matters.

Penryn, United Kingdom

Renewable Energy Group active researcher on an EU funded collaborative project to develop innovative and transferrable low-carbon energy solutions for isolated communities. The main tasks involves the design, implementation and validation of a smart and sustainable energy system adapted to island territories. • Work with the project’s principal investigator to provide specialist advice on a set of guidelines to identify low-carbon transition patterns based on the technical, economic, policy and regulatory impacts of smart grid implementations within isolated territories.• Liaise with key stakeholders and other project partners to determine new business models for low-carbon development based on a whole-systems view of the project implementation, to include the local social, environmental, and techno-economic energy landscape of the respective territories.

Bedford, United Kingdom

School of Water, Energy and Environment researcher on an EPRSC funded project centred on the economics of industrial energy use. • Responsible for the identification of practical technical, organizational and economical barriers and drivers for the adoption of energy efficiency within the UK industrial sector.• Contributed to the production of questionnaires related to the need for energy efficiency mechanisms and energy management standards within the UK industrial sector.• Collaborated on the framing of innovative business models and investments concerned with the barriers and drivers of energy efficiency adoption within the UK industrial sector.

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

School of Engineering and Innovation research project that analysed the long-term investment and policy decisions necessary for sustainable isolated island electricity systems. Explored the identification of policy barriers and for informing low-carbon policy focus areas. Examined the investment incentives needed for low-carbon futures within isolated island systems whilst capturing unintuitive and surprising opportunities to influence such low-carbon development. • Liaised with key stakeholders such as the energy distributor and government agencies to understand the socio-techno-economic challenges that are most critical for providing sustainable energy systems.• Built and explored long-term investment and energy policy models as an Integrated Resource Planning (IRP) process that will ensure the sustainability and energy security of island electricity systems.• Conducted quantitative and qualitative studies and analysis of relevant island specific data.• Provided technical insights into the generation mix options and risk management for minimising the effects of CO2 emissions with increased renewables uptake for sustainable electricity systems.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Teaching Assistant within the MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development 2015-2016 course ESD800 - System Dynamics for Policy and Management.• Assisted with the development and delivery of complex systems course materials for weekly lectures.• Manage the timely and efficient marking of assignments.• Improved student’s understanding of the course content through group tutorials catered for the final project.

Gent Area, Belgium

Future Internet Department active researcher within the area of wireless sensor communication networks. • Implemented a new system design framework (GITAr) of protocols and packet interfaces for wireless sensor networks using the Contiki C# open source program.• Proposed a new and improved stochastic based cross-layer design mechanism for energy efficient acoustic wireless sensor networks.

Aveiro Area, Portugal

4tell research group active researcher within the areas of wireless and green communication, P2PSIP overlay (cryptography) and next generation network architectures and protocols. • Assisted with the prompt reporting of quarterly deliverables and achievements to the EU-FP7 ICT PEACE project partners and other key stakeholders. • Increased the efficiency and on-time delivery of project QMR and financial reports pertinent to the project work.• Instigated the brain-storming and increased efficiency in the proposal writing of accepted EU-FP7 ICT projects such as ROMEO.

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