Kevin Kerner Email & Phone Number

Washington Dc

Washington Dc

Project - Northern Bus Garage Rehab (~$450 Million):• Assist in day-to-day project management responsibilities• Execute construction takeoffs to estimate material cost and change order amounts• Write and negotiate contract agreements & purchase orders with subcontractors• Verify proposed equipment and procedures meet owner specifications

• Created a competitive assessment protocol for Trane’s outdoor air market that can be expanded to other Trane products – tool shows when to improve existing products vs create new products• Assembled a board of company employees in different positions to serve as SMEs for my project• Interviewed account managers to gain VOC/competitor insight & generated SWOTs for main competitors• Created a pricing model that determines fair market price for a DOAS product based off its features• Applied the protocol to the $1.5B Outdoor Air market to determine key steps to increase market share• Presented findings and suggestions to product managers and account managers

• Managed 7 analysts in performing a competitive market research and fundraising analyses for an ESG climate accounting software firm• Analyzed competitors’ GTM, value proposition, product applications, & key clientele & investors• Presented the biggest competitors, most valuable VCs, and applicable NGO grants to CEO & CSO• Client will use my team’s information to fundraise for their $20M Series B funding

• Managed 8 analysts in researching North American metals market to identify companies that would benefit from a business partnership with my client• Established the project timeline and clearly communicated the weekly expectations for the deliverables• Interviewed mining company executives, including a former Rio Tinto CEO, to identify the points along the metals supply chain my client would have the best expansion opportunities• Identified 8 expansion opportunities and generated 3 pricing strategies for each (24 total)• Offered guidance to my team by verifying their research and pricing models and giving feedback• Saved my client ~$1,000,000 by rectifying incorrect assumptions they made in their financial records • Client will pitch findings to Clean Energy Ventures Group to attract investors for 2nd venture round

• Managed 5 engineers in designing and fabricating a shock-absorbing book cart for the Duke Rare Books Library to reduce the damage done their historical manuscripts during transport• Prototyped a cart 50% cheaper than their current carts which reduced sound generation by 76% and vibration generation by 750%• Wrote a grant proposal and received a $1500 to replace another one of their current carts with my team’s prototyped design

Bachelor Of Engineering (Bse) - Mechanical Engineering, Economics Minor (Finance Concentration), 3.75 Gpa

High School Diploma, 4.20 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Concertmaster in McIntosh Symphonic Orchestra (9th Grade - 12 Grade) Emory Youth Symphony Orchestra (11th Grade.