Jessica Webster Email & Phone Number

Working to improve the measurement and modelling of energy in communities to support energy policy development, planning and project implementation by municipalities and utilities.Urban planner and business analyst with 18 years experience working within a building science research group. Registerd Professional Planner and Certified Business Analysis Professional. Past experience includes writing Energy Master Plans for selected Canadian Forces Bases. Previously managed and was scientific authority on collaborative, inter-organizational, multidisciplinary project teams, conducting research into integrated community energy modelling and mapping. Completed an assignment to BC Hydro to conduct building energy efficiency policy research for municipalities and first nations. Marathon report writer. Exacting reviewer of deliverables (numbers, diagrams, maps, reports) who likes to get things right. Skilled presenter, making use of visuals, analogies and storytelling to effectively convey scientific information to expert and non-expert audiences.Research interests: stakeholder analysis, requirements gathering, data modelling, semantic interoperability, housing and building energy modelling, geospatial analysis, geospatial standards, cloud computing, privacy and commercial confidentiality, intellectual property, energy policy, legislative and regulatory contexts. Past work lives: minor capital project management, ethnographic editor, high baller tree planter (320,000 trees), geochemical sampler, canoe trip leader, fruit picker.On the side: Proud mama of two boys. Bike rider, runner, dancer, dj and public art advocate; traveler and adventurer on the road of life.

Listed skills include Sustainability, Program Management, Renewable Energy, Project Planning, and 34 others.

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  Energy Planning Analyst

  Natural Resources Canada

  Nov 2005 - Present - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada