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San Diego, Ca, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

San Diego, Ca, Us

Led contracts and development for 4GW+ of utility-scale solar, batteries and wind.Leading a 20-person team, with dedicated P&L, handling all greenfield, acquisitions, client outreach, land, interconnection and transmission in the Western USProven expertise in contract structure, acquisitions, solar + storage design, wind, transmission, federal and state permitting, strategy, budgeting and energy policy

San Diego, Ca, Us

Completed 200MW of construction, added additional 600MW of PPAs, and re-stocked WECC pipeline to achieve 2GW buildout by 2023.

San Diego, Ca, Us

Successfully acquired over 1GW of contractred and uncontracted assets with over $400MM of NPV

San Diego, Ca, Us

Ran due diligence and co-led commercial transaction for acquisition of OwnEnergy. Evaluated and adopted a novel portfolio optimization strategy, increasing solar dealflow by 2X in California. Led Contract Negotiation and Execution of 200MW of wind contracts, in Texas and New York

San Diego, Ca, Us

Managed 600MW of solar and co-led 150MW of wind permitting in CA, NV, and NMLed regional solar BD, including completing the first five utility-scale solar PPAs for EDFR North America

San Diego, Ca, Us

Financial, policy and energy systems consulting to top tier North American IPPs, including NextEra, Sunpower, First Solar, EDPR and EDFR.Led a consulting project for DOE, including federal grant funding for several pilot solar + storage projects in VirginiaLed consulting project for infrastructure fund, providing a rating scorecard for the top ten large-scale solar markets in the US, leading to $1bn of investment between 2010 - 2015Created a "best practice" guide for George Washington University's Sustainability Office, for operations managers to prioritize future campus energy project investment decisions

As an expert in foreign currencies, financial hedging strategies, and disaster relief, I co-managed projects to adapt existing financial products to help decrease the cost of international microfinance lending and to create a grant program to aid small businesses in countries impacted by a major tsunami, for a leading U.S. non-profit and sister organization of the Nobel Peace winning Grameen Foundation.Co-managed a tsunami-impact assessment team, focused on identifying and prioritizing small business, policy, and humanitarian aid needs in five affected countriesCo-wrote tsunami impact assessment report and coordinated $2M in international donor funding solicitations to create a grant-funding pool for comprehensive bottom-of-pyramid lending programModeled three foreign exchange rate risk hedging options for increasing microfinance lending in at-risk countries, then published a white paper identifying and estimating cost of reducing the key investment barriers, including eliminating moral hazard at U.S. credit rating agencies

Co-managed $2B portfolio, developing a broad, deep base of financial market knowledge, including investment strategy, buy-side security analysis, risk management, and equity, debt, and option product development.Executed investment strategy with dozens of clients each day, in English, Italian, and SpanishCompiled profitability reports, identifying key investment patterns and portfolio values-at-risk Created and conducted weekly global product sales conference call, with over 200 participantsConstructed asset pricing models for derivatives, stocks, bonds, and asset acquisitionsManaged portfolio modeling development team of 6 traders, analysts, and software developers

Masters, Business Administration

Masters Of Science, Environmental Policy And Planning

Bachelor Of Science, Business Finance