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Woodinville, Wa, Us

Delivering distributed decarbonization. Today. New infrastructure, water, electricity, workforce retraining needed? None.

Portland, Oregon, Us

Undaunted as first-time entrepreneurs working on the best side-hustle ever, my brother and I together conceived, developed, and built Pips & Bounce, Portland's original ping pong social club.

Reston, Virginia, Us

Founding Executive Director of the ICF Climate Center, a public-facing thought leadership platform that coordinates, strengthens, and communicates the climate expertise of 9000+ professionals working across 80+ global offices at the largest and most experienced climate consultancy in the world: ICF.

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Led PNGC’s efforts on Western RTO development, Columbia River Treaty reform, BIL/IRA engagement and implementation

Providence, Ri, Us

Building data-driven grid edge infrastructure through dynamic sensing, artificial intelligence, and machine learning

Advanced policies to accelerate deployment of voltage optimization to enhance grid-side efficiency and utilization

Seattle, Washington, Us

Recruited by CEO and co-founders as one of the first 100 employees. Established the company's government affairs operation and developed strategies to engage regulatory stakeholders and influence policymakers to support grid modernization. As a result of successfully helping to obtain dozens of approvals for our utility customers' regulators and by shaping the federal ARRA stimulus to invest $4.5B into smart grid infrastructure, annual company revenues grew from ~$50K to nearly $500M in five years, with over 26 million SSN endpoints deployed around the world.

Portland, Or, Us

Smart Grid and Sustainable Communities course faculty

Appointed by Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber to chair Ten Year Energy Plan task force. Orchestrated and facilitated work from 60+ expert tasks force participants. Analyzed and synthesized inputs into coherent policy recommendations. Authored and submitted final report to the Governor. Engaged extensively in speaking events to communicate the recommendations of the task force to the public.

- Crafted Governor's original 2007 electricity policy proposal and advanced energy industry development strategies- Represented Governor's office at public events and speaking engagements; met with stakeholders and advocated Governor's priorities- Organized and led council of deputy directors from all Cabinet agencies to coordinate energy-related policies, programs, and initiatives- Developed and led effort that successfully achieved ~5% energy efficiency improvements in agency operations within one year

Policy advisor for gubernatorial campaign across the full breadth of policy issues, with specialization in energy and environmental matters.

Columbus, Oh, Us

- Responsible for climate change and sustainable development policy initiatives- Staffed Board Subcommittee responding to shareholder resolution regarding disclosure of climate change-related risks- Served corporate liaison and chief of staff to AEP Ohio President/COO- Coordinated AEP's 2003 chairmanship of the e7 organization of international utilities cooperating on environmental issues- Performed NOx compliance planning in Environmental Services

US Fulbright Fellow and Teaching Assistant in South Korea

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Yale Richter Fellowship-supported research with the LBNL China Energy Group

Mpp, Public Policy

Ba, Environmental Studies; East Asian Studies

High School

Off-Campus Semester