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Jersey City, Nj, Us

Jersey City, Nj, Us

Responsible for managing all facets of development including site identification, site control, local permitting, interconnection, and securing power purchase agreements for community solar and utility scale solar facilities.Renewable energy asset development from concept to construction. Management of multi-stakeholder development team & multi-site project development portfolio. Lead developer of many of Soltage's solar projects in key markets.

Served as a Senior Project Manager with SoCore Energy having worked on 51 projects to-date in several MW scale, multi-site, project portfolio roll-outs of solar photovoltaic (PV) projects in 7 states for Fortune 500 clients and various utilities. NABCEP PV Installation Professional since 2016. Proud to be part of team that has constructed and achieved commercial operations for over 150+ MW of solar PV systems, across 321 sites, in 21 states.

Worked as an Energy Analyst providing energy efficiency consulting services, program development and implementation. Supporting TEG's management of MidAmerican Energy's Nonresidential Equipment Program, reviewing energy efficiency projects for the industrial and large commercial customers. According to publicly available Iowa Utility Board filings in MidAmerican's 2014-2018 plan, the program is resourced with $848,589 in administrative costs with anticipated incentive (rebate) amounts of $8,348,809. The review process evaluates energy savings, cost savings, and incentive amounts for each project. Cumulative Nonresidential Equipment program target savings levels for 2014 electric savings were: 59.7 TWh (annually) and 9.2 MW of peak reduction; the gas savings goals for 2014 were: 824,801 Therms (annually) and 11,496 peak therms (annually).In projects requiring a custom review, I worked directly with customers to help identify the technical information necessary for project evaluation, performed technical analyses of applications to confirm scope, cost and potential energy savings, performed field verification on completed projects and calculated revised expected annual energy savings from installed projects, as necessary.Other duties included development of an alternative energy feasibility analysis capability for the business, providing a variety of technical analyses for other utility projects, building energy modeling (utilizing eQUEST) to quantify savings between energy efficiency measures and baseline system consumption, performing energy audits, and program support to each TEG division.

Ankeny, Iowa, Us

Assisted Iowa's municipal electric and natural gas utilities with regulatory and analytical assistance, including annual regulatory reports, DSM program support, identifying energy efficiency program opportunities, commercial energy efficiency audits, program development & conducting membership surveys.Previous IAMU projects: Helped prepare, evaluate, and coordinate an RFP process on behalf of municipalities seeking to retrofit High Pressure Sodium lights with LED street lighting. The process resulted in the retrofit of 1,288 HPS lights in Iowa with LED street lighting technology. This led to annual savings estimated at 677 MWh annually in the 16 participating communities. Helped prepare, evaluate, and coordinate an annual RFP process, on behalf of 136 municipal electric utilities to participate in a bulk compact fluorescent lighting purchasing program. Since 2010, the project has led to the purchase of 85,000 CFLs yielding an estimated cumulative annual savings of 5 GWh.Concluded work with ARRA funded Energy Efficiency Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) funded projects. Assessed community energy usage, found overlooked opportunities for energy efficiency, identified barriers to the adoption of energy saving measures, and facilitated community energy events accelerating the adoption of energy efficiency measures. The project tasks included performing benefit/cost analyses of energy efficiency options based on energy audits and communicating results at community meetings. Assisted in preparation of intermediate and final reports that cataloged and synthesized energy use data, community demographic profiles, analyses of energy audits, and quantified impacts of the community energy efficiency event(s).Assisted in a municipal electric utility community installation of "smart" (load controlling) thermostats, helped to train other installers in the project and provided troubleshooting during the community implementation as needed.

Omaha, Ne, Us

Second internship working as a Field Engineer Intern for Kiewit. Responsibilities and duties included: -Tracked productivity rates for electrical crews working on a turn-key $454.6 million, 200 MW power plant construction project-Maintained records of hours worked and quantity of materials installed-Received and inspected engineering equipment (turbine equipment, switchgears, etc.)-Performed Quality Assurance Inspections of installed work-Set electrical work schedules, equipment, and materials to be ordered to complete construction operations-Liaison between design engineers, electricians, and construction management-Bidding and estimating quantities for electrical department

Omaha, Ne, Us

First Internship with Kiewit Power ConstructorsSimilar responsibilities as denoted above.

Mba, Masters Of Business Administration

B.S., Industrial Engineering

Education record

N/A - Professional Continuing Education - Megawatt Design Course, Solar Design & Installation