We help organizations identify and implement sustainable solutions in order to create a thriving and resilient world. As an associate, some of my responsibilities include: - Am responsible for project management, organizing implementation strategies and coordinating improvement efforts between the client and Verdis Group. - Conduct waste and recycling research and presenting market information to clients to assist in right-sizing waste and recycling programs.- Coordinate the creation and content for engagement programs to get staff involved with sustainability efforts at their organization. - Create and conduct large scale transportation surveys to reduce parking pressure and promote active transportation.

We help organizations identify and implement sustainable solutions. This work can vary from sustainability master planning and resiliency planning to implementation work to create better recycling systems, promote water and energy efficiency, and engage staff is sustainability issues. Clients include the Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium, The Nebraska Medical Center and Black Hills State University. As an analyst, I: - Organized and analyzed large amounts of data for clients.- Led in the creation and analysis of sustainability engagement and active transportation surveys. - Walked clients through the sustainability master planning process.

- Promote sustainable behavior in first year residence halls by leading a section of the Green Ambassador program, which focuses on recycling and reducing water and electrical usage - Reduce consumption of energy in residence halls by 3.3% in a three-week campus wide competition - Contribute to a Food Working Group Advisory Committee that met with Chartwells dining service to discuss ways to achieve sustainable food services, including discussions about reducing food waste

- Awarded a fellowship through the Upstate Field School to research a basic audit of energy, water and waste to determine potential for improvements in over fifteen residential and artistic buildings - Interviewed individual staff members to understand current operations and potential for sustainability improvements - Initiated a number of small sustainability projects, including a solar panel audit and composting at the local dining residence

- Conducted an individual research project in order to perfect an assay focusing on interactions between human neutrophils and a mutated strain of Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NGC) - Determined optimal conditions for the assay, allowing the laboratory to save chemical detergents and time so many NGC mutants could be tested to determine how NGC is able to survive in a human neutrophil - Drafted and presented a poster to the lab group showing results of individual research, highlighting the ability of the lab to save chemical detergents when running a specific assay

Analyzed data on the activity of human neutrophils in the presence of Staphylococcus aureus in order to determine mechanisms of cell to cell signaling and develop an assay to quickly analyze and catalogue different strains of bacteria.