Melissa Elder, Pe Email & Phone Number

San Diego, California, United States

As a Community Engagement Associate at San Diego Community Power, I collaborate with community stakeholders to foster strong relationships and enhance public awareness of SDCP’s operations and programs. My role involves direct outreach with community-based organizations and the general public, ensuring strategic engagement through professional networking.

San Diego, California, United States

Co-founded Sharing Prosperity LLC as a Next Economy consulting firm dedicated to advancing equity, ecological sustainability, and a world that works for the benefit of all life. We support purpose-driven entrepreneurs, cooperatives, and employee-owned companies to operate with a growth mindset aligned around a long-term beneficial vision. Our comprehensive.

San Diego, California, United States

-Initiated creation of Native & Indigenous, women-led non-profit through organizing & facilitating team alignment and vision, application coordination, structuring organizational governance, and organizational agreements-Manage grant applications, responsible building budgets, operational planning, and reporting. Manage internal and external.

As the Promise Zone Coordinator, I build coalitions and maintain relationships with community leaders, City and County staff and community-based organizations to coordinate outreach that engages additional cross-sector stakeholders representing diverse cultures, backgrounds, and languages. I plan and facilitate community events and meetings, including.

San Diego, California, United States

C4GS is 'Reimaging Affordable Mixed-Use Development in a Carbon-Constrained Future for the California Energy Commissions EPIC Grant. - Developing policies and procedures to support efficient progress and workflow-Initiating data collection and reporting -Coordinate project teams, schedules and action items for the core team of 10-Prepare and facilitate.

-Manage project tasks, deadlines and schedules to ensure program success. -Prepare and facilitate meetings, capture meeting minutes, and coordinate community members for outreach and youth programming planning in a dynamic work environment.-Responsible for data tracking and quarterly report submittals to meet grant requirements. -Leads initiatives such as.

San Diego, California, United States

-Lead a coalition of 13 community partners for a 7-hour livestream Earth Day event “Climate Uprising 2020”. -Advocate for policies to City Council, including getting a “Climate Emergency Declaration” passed in 2019, and participated in the San Diego Green New Deal planning committee. -Demonstrate strong teamwork and collaboration skills to build trusting.

Greater San Diego Area

Assistant project manager encompassing nine project teams throughout the Southern California region. -Used strong teamwork and collaboration skills to build trusting relationships in the growing team (from 6 to over 30)-Assisted in developing and implementing a programmatic approach for consistency across 30 projects including: developing process flows.

San Francisco Bay Area

-Conducted soil investigation prior to excavation to delineate contamination and potential volume of impacted soil across the area. -Oversaw asbestos removal and monitoring by subcontractors prior to building demolition. -Conducted routine monitoring of excavation and soil removal activities as described in the soil & groundwater management plan.-Conducted.

San Francisco Bay Area

O&M, Compliance Engineer-Coordinate weekly operations and maintenance with client’s technician. -Maintain database with weekly readings in order to better plan and schedule maintenance needs. -Conduct weekly meetings with the client and make system modification recommendations.Sustainability Reporting-Led a team of three for preparation of the quarterly.

Monteverde, Costa Rica

This unique Research Experience for Undergraduates program sponsored by the National Science Foundation took place in the highlands of northwestern Costa Rica. Monteverde, the program site, is part of the famous Monteverde Reserve Complex, an area of preserves protecting over 100,000 acres of endangered tropical forest. USF partners with the Monteverde.

Rolla, MO

Groundwater: Hydrology Intern -Studied water quality change data over a 90 year span for 70+ wells-Compiled data from different sources, analyzed using SYSTAT and ArcMap-Wrote technical reports detailing conclusions and recommendations-Conducted air sampling and tested a novel method of air sampling which would be more cost effective and easier to deploy.

Environmental Research Center

Roswell, GA

Global Non-Wovens: Discovery-Conducted research in key innovation program for Baby Child Care and Health Care-Managed several different projects effectively to exceed internship goals-Recorded findings and made recommendations for scale-up-Presented on research and conclusions to team members and managers-Received 'great' ratings from both manager and team.

Neenah, WI

Sustainable PackagingPerformed experiments and produced different types of film on extrusion equipmentConducted testing by collaborating with different scientists within the corporation to analyze properties of the blends of plastics films to determine quality as packaging Provided data and recommendations for scale up, potentially saving K-C $2.8.

Cordova, IL

Environmental Engineering Intern Updated Chemical Contingency Plan to ensure complianceLeak Detection and RepairUpdated the master tag list and mechanical flow diagrams by auditing Utilizing a photo ionization PID, tested for fugitive emissions used for calculationsEnsured compliance by confirming the components were identifiedCoordinated with ARI.

B.S, Environmental Engineering

Activities and Societies: Society Of Hispanic Professional Engineers, EcoMiners, Student Diversity Mentor Program, Opportunity for.

Psychology

Activities and Societies: S.A.N.E- Society for Awareness of the Natural Environment Phi Theta Kappa- International Honor Society