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Sacramento, California, United States

Sacramento, California, United States

* Serve as strategic lead and primary liaison to clients for a $1 billion portfolio of statewide, local, and utility zero-emission vehicle and infrastructure incentive programs, including Clean Vehicle Rebate Project, Oregon Clean Vehicle Rebate Project, Washington EV Charging Incentive Program, PG&E Pre-owned EV Rebate, SCE Pre-owned EV Rebate, and Sac Metro AQMD Clean Cars 4 All.* Direct exceptional multi-disciplinary project teams and over 100 professional and staff personnel to ensure project milestones and deliverables are achieved at or above expectations.* Repurposed and expanded Engagement & Outreach teams to focus on partnership building, including development of the Community Partners Network consisting of local community-based organizations.* Review program data, analyses, and evaluations in the context of evolving market, policy, and technology developments to inform future program design and funding discussions.

Sacramento, California Area

Roseville, Ca

* Facilitated working groups for 16 member utilities on distributed generation, energy efficiency, energy storage, and transportation electrification focused on analyzing implications of market, policy, and technology developments for electric utilities and their customers.* Compiled compliance reports on behalf of all public power related to energy efficiency (SB 1037 report), distributed generation (SB 1 report), and energy storage (AB 2514 report) and supported the voluntary registration and reporting of member utilities in the Low Carbon Fuel Standard program.* Actively built and managed network of strategic relationships with a diverse range of interested parties to further NCPA and member utility policy objectives.

Sacramento, California Area

Served as Senator’s senior advisor on climate change and clean energy policy and proactively worked across the aisle to garner bi-partisan support for key policies, including SBx2 (2011).

Re-established key connections for the Assemblyman with diverse leaders in the environmental, industry, and utility communities.

Sacramento, California Area

Improved legislative advocacy by re-framing technical concerns related to grid reliability and the integration of intermittent renewable resources for policymaker audiences.

Sacramento, California Area

Researched, drafted, and managed legislation supporting renewable energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, including AB 809 (2007), AB 1613 (2007), and AB 45 (2009).

Sacramento, California Area

Conducted research on horse racing policies, monitored implementation of Proposition 1D (2006), and prepared background on key elected officials in advance of the Governor’s Trade Mission.

Sacramento, California, United States

Helped coordinate the Governor’s official calendar and volunteered after hours to support Legislative Affairs unit in preparing bill files of enacted legislation for review by senior staff and the Governor.

San Francisco, California, United States

Tracked legislative and regulatory developments related to forest carbon sequestration, forest conservation and stewardship, CARB cap & trade offset protocols.

Masters, Public Policy

Activities and Societies: Institute for Policy Research - graduate assistant Political Science Department Fee Committee - member

Bs, Social Sciences

Activities and Societies: College of Liberal Arts Ammbassdors - Vice President Social Sciences Club - President Social Sciences Department.