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Boston, Ma, Us

Franklin, Tn, Us

Providing governance, leadership, management, planning, and business transformation to a waste-to-value start-up poised to change the world.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Leading technical diligence, asset monitoring, and value creation across all portfolio assets. Building and leading world-class capabilities in project development, project management, and project oversight to enable the successful underwriting, construction, operation, and management of emerging sustainable infrastructure solutions.

Mclean, Virginia, Us

Executive Advisor to leading and middle-market GPs and deal leads seeking to buy, grow, optimize, and sell portfolio investments within the sustainable energy space. Led cross-functional market analyst and consultant teams to deliver accurate and insightful commercial diligence on urgent schedules; Interviewed management teams, analyzed financial statements, records, and pro-formas, and oversaw staff performing primary and secondary market research activities. Appraised growth potential and risks for portfolio companies and projects across a wide range of emerging energy transition technologies including: anaerobic digestion, combined heat and power, electric vehicles, solar and storage, microgrids and virtual power plants, energy trading, software, EaaS platforms, and performance contracting.

Mclean, Virginia, Us

Incubated, co-founded, and co-led a Guidehouse spin-off business jointly owned by Guidehouse and InfraRed Capital Partners. Infrastructure project development leader delivering technical development and diligence of distributed energy resource assets and systems. Presented results of project opportunity technical diligence to the board and investment committee; translated risks to potential commercial and financial impact; executed mitigation actions to control risk and meet development milestone and return targets.Led technical diligence for distributed assets across multiple renewable energy transition technologies including solar, storage, EV charging, combined heat and power, anerobic digestion, solid municipal waste incineration, virtual power plant systems, microgrids, vertical farming, and agriculture.Acting as Chief Engineer, formed and led project-specific teams of design engineers, EPCs, consultants, and analysts across a dozen $25M-$50M pipeline opportunities to formulate, test, and iterate optimized techno-economic system designs that could sustainably and resiliently deliver energy and environmental value streams, predictable cashflow streams, and community impacts through distributed assets and systems.Acting as CFO, supported CEO in investing $3M in early stage integrated operating and project development sponsor equity. Acting as COO, co-developed company strategic vision and translated into executable project development and project management processes, tools, and systems. Formed and led a cross-functional development team of in-kind Guidehouse staff, OEMs, engineering firms, and consultants;

Mclean, Virginia, Us

Built Navigant’s microgrid advisory practice to a nationally-recognized offering. As global lead for the Navigant Microgrid Center of Excellence, developed tools, practices, and methods leveraged across the firm and recruited, led, coached, and developed a team of cross-functional consultants to deliver over two dozen microgrid advisory engagements to prominent utilities, IPPs, investors, developers, state agencies, and OEMs.Pioneered new method of complex DER system project development and assessed distributed technologies for commercial application and financial impact including distributed generation (solar, diesel, gas, biogas), storage, combined heat and power, building and microgrid controls, utility interconnection, and district heating and cooling.Led commercial and technical diligence for community microgrid, determined project bankability and recommended actions to increase value. Advised management teams and investors on market entry, growth strategy, and project development strategy. Developed project diligence best practices for state agency investment grant and incentive programs.Authored, Presented, Moderated, and/or Chaired over 60 thought leadership pieces in prominent industry publications and at national conference events; became known within Navigant and the industry as a global expert in microgrid technology, development, and financial/commercial analysis.

Mclean, Virginia, Us

Managed delivery teams across a diverse range of energy infrastructure engagements. Led the outsourced Metrics and Benefits Team for U.S. DOE’s Smart Grid Investment Grant Program; Monitored 99 infrastructure investment projects deploying over $8 billion in capital. Oversaw creation of project diligence methods and tools, collection and assessment of monitoring data, and reporting of investment risks, lessons, and outcomes to senior government officials in support of congressional audit and oversight activities.Led an independent auditor team for the US Federal Trade Commission. Oversaw technical diligence and audit functions for a long-duration commercial agreement between two prominent utilities. Invented and carried out novel audit methods to determine contract compliance and penalty payments. Developed rapport and earned trust to mediate and resolve disputes between directly competing parties under direct federal government oversight. Recruited, developed, and managed a staff of six.Led market assessment for a buy-side PE seeking to acquire a smart grid equipment firm; built a novel market data analysis method to identify incremental revenue opportunity hidden from the management team. Contributed to upside case resulting in favorable acquisition decision.

Norwich, Ct, Us

Led the execution of a $18 million four-year digital and physical infrastructure investment program across five municipal utilities and their co-owned joint action agency from inception to 70% scope complete. Built rapport, earned trust, and effectively communicated across six operating companies to implement unfamiliar and newly commercialized technologies under an aggressive schedule; Achieved on-schedule and under-budget performance with zero missed compliance deadlines, zero audit findings, and continued stakeholder support. Established Program Management Office (PMO) to provide project controls, IT systems procurement and benefit quantification for 21 inter-related projects; Provided status updates and project risk and opportunity advisories to board of directors.Delivered project management coaching and skills training to 11 executives across six operating companies; built a system to monitor resources, budgets, risks, and issues that received best-in-class recognition from the US Department of Energy.Developed comprehensive risk management plan to identify, assess, and mitigate the full range of uncertainty exposure including cost, schedule, quality, performance, stakeholder, cyber-physical security, political, government, and supply chain.

Served as finance director, legal officer and general manager with P&L responsibility. Developed and articulated business model and growth strategy operations plan. Developed and presented pro-forma financial statements and use of proceeds plan to potential equity investors. Developed and led client services team and implemented project delivery tools and systems.Guided business through Great Recession to maintain positive cash flow, clean balance sheet and strong staff and partner relationships. Continued to improve operating margins through development of new marketing approaches and service offerings with careful cost control.

Developed complex analytical operation and finance models, business cases and feasibility engineering plans to support investor- and public-owned electric utility strategic project development. Client engagements included: • Co-Authored a winning $9.2M AMI end-to-end smart grid SGIG proposal in six weeks. Only award made in state of Connecticut. Recognized in the top 20 from among 400 national proposals received. • Formed and led cross-entity, cross-functional grant award team to author and gain approval for integrated Program Execution Plan (PEP) including Performance Management Baseline (PMB). • Developed wholesale time-of-use rate cost/benefit model for use by a Joint Action Agency to establish business case for commercial customer enrollment in RTO-managed DR programs. • Co-designed and developed an interactive quantitative model to analytically link customer energy preferences to generation availability, cost, and environmental impact trade-offs; commissioned by a large Investor-Owned Utility to influence state regulator policy opinion.

Marblehead, Massachusetts, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Brussels, Be

Houston, Texas, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

Executive Certificate In Management And Leadership

Master Of Industrial Engineering, Engineering Management

Bachelor Of Science In Mechanical Engineering And Liberal Arts And Sciences, Double Major In Mechanical Engineering And Philosophy With Minor In Technology And Social Change

International Student Exchange Program, Wales, United Kingdom

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