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Waltham, Massachusetts, United States

Waltham, Massachusetts, United States

Waltham, Massachusetts, United States

• Leads regulatory reporting and policy efforts which focus on planning, managing, and delivering the Company’s energy efficiency and demand response programs for Rhode Island.
• Provides testimony and data request responses to the RI Public Utilities Commission (PUC) on energy efficiency and related dockets.
• Active member of internal cross functional teams (providing energy efficiency strategy/policy input) – Regulatory Activity, System Reliability Procurement, Load Forecasting, Long Term Gas Capacity for Aquidneck Island.
• Frequent presenter and discussion leader with external stakeholders such as the Division of Public Utilities and Carriers, the RI Energy Efficiency & Resource Management Council, and Acadia Center.
• Maintains benefit/cost models and performs statistical and economic analysis of the impact to RI ratepayers.

Boston, MA

• Functioned as shared resource between all organizational departments. Quickly and accurately pivoted between competing priorities while producing quality work. Main point of contact to deliver findings to clients and.
• Identified more than $1,000,000 in potential utility savings in client’s building portfolio by comparing energy use to custom benchmarks. Presented performance reports to stakeholders with customized action items.
• Saved $24,000/year on water bill by creating spike tracking metrics to quickly and accurately identify on-the-ground issues. Developed new KPIs and dashboards to prevent future issues.
• Calculated pandemic impact on labor and materials costs for field team to issue change orders and recoup losses.
• Achieved a 42% click-to-open ratio (COTR) for the company’s new newsletter.
• Prepare written reports and data visualizations for grant reporting and utility program compliance.

Waltham, MA

• Performed regulatory evaluations of both residential and commercial energy efficiency programs, including government-regulated data submittals. Analysis focused on segmentation and targeting of customers for energy.
• Managed GIS service, including staff training, software selection and database repository.
• Developed a logistic regression model to predict likelihood to act for three program offerings. Models built on secondary data including zip-9 demographics, billing and usage profiles, and past program participation.
• Assessed the effectiveness of program delivery (marketing and outreach efforts, educational component, offerings, and communication among stakeholders) through participant surveys and indepth interviews with program.

Waltham, Massachusetts

Chicago, IL

• Developed analysis methods to evaluate new smart grid initiatives and residential electric rate structures, as well as benchmark energy use in buildings to help municipalities develop energy efficiency strategies.
• Curriculum development and execution of an eight-week class on utility bill analysis for staff.
• Performed K-means cluster analysis on 130,000 electric customers to identify distinct load shapes. Targeted customer acquisition towards load shapes that were most likely to perform well on an hourly pricing program.
• Developed methodology to attribute natural gas/electricity usage from account-level datasets to a county’s energy baseline for energy and climate action planning. Calculated potential savings for recommendations to.

Evanston, Illinois, United States

Managed enrollment of high school students for Northwestern's summer debate camp. Point of contact for all pre-camp questions. Handled all deposit and enrollment information.

M.S., Applied Statistics

B.A., Economics And Political Science

Activities and Societies: National High School Institute - Debate, Sigma Alpha Iota