Modern Energy® is a clean energy company dedicated to providing affordable, reliable, and sustainable energy for all. Our businesses deliver distributed energy solutions, including energy efficiency, energy storage, distributed generation, and demand management, to customers and markets in the United States and Brazil. We are leading the transition to a net-zero carbon economy.

— Built a national recruitment function from the ground-up, driving employee growth/hiring by over 300%. Developed department goals, strategies and tactics as aligned to overall strategic plan, while operationalizing them across six states and seven departments.— Ran full lifecycle recruitment for over 200 roles (entry-level to C-suite), while maintaining a matriculation rate of over 85%, meeting over 90% of hiring deadlines, reducing time-to-fill by 9 months for executive roles, and tracked above goal for internal partners satisfaction scores and candidate satisfaction scores.— Implemented our first ever diversity recruitment strategy, developing a system to track and evaluate organizational goals towards staff diversity metrics. Achieved a 35% increase in new hire diversity over 3 years, and increasing the overall percentage of people of color within the organization from 25% to 43%. — Served as a business partner to managers, strategizing around people issues such as: headcount planning, and job profile alignment, recruitment strategy, compensation and onboarding. — Lead a (small but mighty) racially and economically diverse team who that hit goals and tracked above the organizational average for staff satisfaction and performance.— Developed and executed special projects such as: re-imagining our internal hiring policies & salary offer process, improving onboarding, increasing AAPI/Latinx applicants, retention working group & employer branding.— Data management and analytics: built out an organization-wide applicant tracking system and managed data-information systems/reporting. Administered surveys and analyzed survey findings to make data-driven based decisions on our strategic priorities and aligned actions.

Lead a team of 30 students across the world to launch local campaigns, develop their leadership practice and learn key skills to become community leaders.

— Developed an overall strategy and managed a team to position NOI as a leader in the progressive job placements.— Consulted directly with campaigns across the country to scout, interview and place 100’s of exceptionally talented organizers on key races.— Managed a small team to create talent programming and events, attracting over 2,500 attendees.

— Served as a founding member of our start-up team, building an online B2B marketplace that was eventually sold to Apartment Therapy. — Developed an effective social media presence & targeted online advertising program for membership acquisition. Maintained a 60,000+ person member database and CRM

— Lead efforts to find meaningful employment for top 20% of staff coming off the 2012 electoral and issue campaigns.— Act as the liaison between the Work Forward program and campaign staff.— Manage staff and volunteers for the Work Forward program.

Obama’s Inaugural Committee was a team of campaign staff tasked with the execution of Obama’s 2013 Inauguration. The Volunteer Operations department handled all recruiting, selection, and training of volunteers.— Developed overall department strategy, timeline, and execution plan to staff the volunteer program for all the inaugural events. Aided in staffing and structural decisions.— Hired, supported, and managed a staff of 11 to build a 13,000-person volunteer operation in 6 weeks.— Developed sophisticated data and social media strategies that attracted 60k applicants.— Designed an event-specific app with our technology team.— Trained 13,000 people in one day.

Curriculum and Programs:— Created and implemented a statewide training program to ensure that staff, interns, fellows, and volunteers were prepared to succeed in their roles. — Managed an internship program with 900 participants. Program responsibilities included: recruitment, database management, training, and ongoing support for program participants. — Wrote and produced training curriculum to support field organizing initiatives. The curriculum was used to train over 250 incoming organizers.Event Management:— Managed the budget, logistics, site selection & contract, food service, speaker series, and program for over 15 trainings with participant numbers ranging from 20-1,500. — Trained hundreds of volunteer leaders to execute Presidential events & rallies. Responsibilities included volunteer management, crowd control, and ticket distribution.Personnel Management:— Created and statewide training department. Responsibilities included headhunting, hiring, goal-setting, training, and coaching.

— Guided a class of 15 students from around the world through the online learning course Leading, Organizing in Action: Leading Change.— Created and implemented lesson plans to deepen the learning and organizing practice of my students.— Coached the launch of 15 organizing projects around the world.

— Developed materials and taught the following lessons: Public Narrative, Building Relationships, Building Leadership Teams, Strategizing, Campaign Tactics, Volunteer Recruitment, GOTV, Political Action, Delegation & Responsibility, Training for Trainers and Group Decision Making among others.— Worked with web developers, videographers and designers to create an online learning platform with over 4,000 users.— Developed a professional network for progressive trainers.— Created and implemented workshops to meet the demand of the progressive community.

— Liaised with Organizing for America’s (OFA) National Regional Directors, the Chairman’s office and DNC Executive Director’s office to move forward OFA’s mission to support the President’s agenda. — Helped create Summer Organizing Program curriculum that was used nationally by OFA State Directors.— Coordinated with a 120 person staff to ensure the success of daily meetings, press calls, conference calls, speaking engagements and general timeliness in regards to the daily schedule.

Started by knocking doors for a longshot candidate ahead of the South Carolina primary. Ended up electing a President of the United States. Trained and managed volunteers, registered thousands of voters, and conducted full-scale grassroots voter contact and turnout programs in 7 different states.