Jordan Eccles Email & Phone Number

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Alexandria, Va

• Advised the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Operational Energy in mission data analysis, software development, and energy and logistics to prioritize, fund, and implement energy efficiency initiatives expected to impact overall demand across the Air Force by 5%, approximately $250M/yr.• Led effort to develop new goals and overall strategy for the Air Force Operational Energy program, including roadmap advancing state-of-the-art processes and technology by achieving objectives in energy intensity, supply chain risk management, and digital transformation enabled by data visibility and culture change. • Expanded Operational Energy portfolio to over 40 projects totaling $50M in annual investment by completing business case analyses for dozens of technologies and processes and prioritizing cost-effective investment opportunities in advocacy to senior leaders in the Air Force and Dept of Defense. • Developed data-driven behavioral change initiative, the Mission Execution Excellence Program, by using principles of direct stakeholder engagement, wing-level incentivization, and data-informed operations, with over $2M in energy cost savings within 1 year and scaled potential of $70M enterprise-wide cost savings. • Led stakeholders through organizational change implementing unique US law to recover energy cost savings, creating the first-of-kind Operational Energy Savings Account and successfully funding over $15M of projects by employing a cross-functional, multi-level governance process unifying energy, fiscal, and legal functional areas. • Created energy data analysis pipelines to deliver bespoke cloud-based data analysis applications, expanding insight from zero to 75% of fuel use with an iterative, agile development approach on multiple platforms, including the Air Force VAULT and DoD Advana, with modern tools including Databricks, Qlik, and C3.ai.

Alexandria, Va

• Provided data analysis and subject matter expertise for mission sustainment studies at over 30 USAF installations, including wind energy risk assessment and climate vulnerability modeling and simulations identifying drought risk and natural hazard vulnerabilities to extreme weather using ArcGIS, the Sea, Lake, and Overland Surges from Hurricane Model, customized python code, and other tools.• Led customer-service centered enterprise-wide encroachment management data application for the US Air Force Civil Engineering Center focused on business problems with cross-functional mission impact, leading to an overhaul of the agency’s encroachment management program to a data-centric policy approach. • Managed US Army Corps of Engineers Institute of Water Resources data evaluation, US Coast Guard natural resource policy revision, and Sonoran Institute climate resilience metrics projects delivering implementation plans for mitigating risk by drawing on emergent tools in climate adaptation and resource management. • Developed mobile applications for Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Shared Use Area and National Geospatial Agency’s Innovative GEOINT Application Provider Program, taking a unique public engagement need from concept to execution by creating an iOS application allowing users to enhance their experience and engagement with the Shared Use Area. • Managed internal implementation of ISO 9001:2008 quality management system and provided expertise for company-wide information architecture in SharePoint, establishing the first company-wide knowledge management system and upgrading key business systems and communications tools. • Served as subject matter expert for internal corporate sustainability metrics program, assessing compliance with initiatives and piloting small-business-focused sustainability auditing by developing an extensible iOS application designed to assess impact of sustainable practices and travel for participating companies.

Durham, Nc

• Designed software development plan and implemented agile management environment for Pluribus Systems, an innovative technology startup focused on improving online financial transaction security.• Identified key best practices in credit card fraud prevention for implementation seamlessly across enterprise authentication networks and consumer-facing applications. • Developed Pluribus iOS application to secure online transactions by employing a unique application of cryptography that creates single-use credit card numbers using Objective C and customized cryptography libraries and implementations that extended the processing capability and security of the iOS platform.

• Analyzed carbon capture and storage economics at regional and national scales using agent-based decision models and spatial optimization, focusing on how businesses make decisions to determine what kind of policies might impact adoption of carbon capture and storage systems.• Participated in working groups with the US Energy Information to determine user needs for carbon capture and storage modeling for the Annual Energy Outlook, including focus on converting techno-economic modeling to a user-centered experience within the National Energy Modeling System• Taught “Energy and Environment” courses for graduate and undergraduate students with a focus on exposing non-technical students to engineering concepts and the intersection of technology and economics. Topics included energy infrastructure, power markets, regulations, and environmental compliance.

• Assigned USS GETTYSBURG (CG-64) 2004 – 2005, deployed June – August 2004 in support of Summer Pulse 2004, a “surge” exercise designed to test rapid deployment of as many naval assets as possible.• Completed 6-month Surface Warfare Officer School At Sea program in under 4 weeks during deployment, assigned electrical division within 3 months of commissioning. • Developed Maneuvering Board application for PalmPilot to digitize manual process of navigation in close quarters with other vessels on temporary assignment to Afloat Training Group Mayport.

• Taught Algebra I, Geometry, Biology, Chemistry, and Computer Science to high school students. Tenure saw increase in enrollment of over 100% by emphasizing academic rigor and college preparation. • Leveraged high emotional intelligence to successfully advance students with diverse backgrounds and highly varied academic achievement prior to enrollment.

Ph.D., Energy And Environment

Activities and Societies: • Developed techno-economic models for pricing greenhouse gas mitigation costs and evaluating deployment.

B.A., Earth And Ocean Sciences

Activities and Societies: • Recipient of Navy Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) scholarship • Executive Committee Member of Hoof ‘n’.