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San Diego, California, United States

• Lead a team responsible for power related contract administration, settlements and compliance
• Negotiate PPAs, ESSAs, and RA-only contracts

San Diego

• Oversee contract management for long-term PPA, ESSA, EEIs, and WSPP contracts and short-term RA, RPS, and IST contracts for SDCP power services team and ~$950M annual energy budget
• Negotiate PPAs, ESSAs, and RA-only contracts
• Administer RFPs
• Track portfolios to ensure compliance with internal and external targets
• Assist origination team and RA and RPS portfolio managers
• Manage outside vendors

San Diego, California, United States

• Manage a core internal team, outside consultants, and consulting firms. Manage outside legal counsel (IP, licensing, regulatory).
• Responsible for product development, regulatory initiatives, strategic and financial planning for a clinical stage ophthalmic drug and device company
• Manage and forecast a multi-million dollar budget
• Structure, draft, review, negotiate, and execute core contracts with partners and suppliers
• Develop FDA regulatory strategy and manage execution
• Prepared company for financing and created a due diligence package and financing documents for potential investors or strategic partners

Greater San Diego Area

• Developed 505(b)(2) regulatory strategy and led PreIND and IND submissions and meetings.
• Secured over $4.5M from convertible note and equity rounds
• Executed accounting and finance responsibilities

Greater San Diego Area

• Helped launch a biomass to energy technology company and gained experience in renewable energy matters and energy project development
• Managed development project to get the first thermal biomass waste-to-energy technology project permitted by the San Diego Air Pollution Control District. Led site inspections and audits.
• Project financing experience - wrote grant applications that secured over $2MM in grants and $2MM in tax credits
• Conducted due diligence and land use planning on acquisition targets and potential project sites. Emphasis on how local regulations, CEQA, NEPA, CARB, CalRecycle, and/or ARB regulations would affect the development of.
• Developed statewide permitting strategy for local land use agencies, CARB, CEC, and the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) for a novel waste-to-energy technology
• Drafted, negotiated, and executed core contracts with partners and customers including review of potential PPAs with local utilities and private off take agreements

Greater San Diego Area

• Secured over $800k in grant funding from the California Energy Commission to develop a biomass to energy technology
• Handled document review, contract development and review, negotiations, research, and memo writing

Greater San Diego Area

Responsible for various in-house council duties including document review, contract development and review, negotiations, research, and memo writing. Developed strategy to monetize carbon assets and engaged in various negotiation with carbon finance companies to enter into long-term sales agreements.Managed online sales efforts via Adword, SEO, and FB.

Greater San Diego Area

Worked on various legal projects related to launching a renewable energy business. My main projects focus on the legal framework around recognizing the carbon offset potential of biochar and biomass-to-energy systems. Further, I have worked on maneuvering the company through the various legal requirements under both federal and state environmental laws.

Law Clerk in the Power section of the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA). Wrote numerous legal memos regarding: power purchase agreements, FERC litigation, transmission disputes, standing, Direct Service Industry contracts, and other legal issues facing the agency.Legal research using LexisNexus and Westlaw.

Law, Energy, Natural Resource, And Environmental

Activities and Societies: Environmental Law Review: Associate EditorJim Fell Memorial Scholarship for Outstanding Law Student with.

B.S., Business Admin, Finance, Accounting, Psychology

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