Electric sector consultant providing strategy and expertise to stakeholders building the 21st century grid. Mission-driven focus on the development and implementation of policy, market, and technology solutions to rapidly decarbonize global energy systems.➢Lead a boutique consulting firm focused on supporting utility sector decarbonization, with particular emphasis on the intersection of reliability and decarbonization in utility resource planning.➢Provide synthesis, analysis, and strategy for clients adapting to structural changes in the energy market and policy ecosystem, with expertise in integrated resource planning, reliability markets and programs, and clean energy policies, and lifecycle emissions analysis➢Develop and implement regulatory and legislative strategies for clean energy deployment; recent engagement and advocacy focused in western states (CPUC, OPUC, PUCN, WRAP) and wholesale markets (PJM, MISO, ISO-NE).➢Advise clean energy startups on product and go-to-market strategy in the highly complex utility industry.Do you have an interesting challenge? Let's talk: Contact@NPEnergyCA.com

Interdisciplinary leadership role supporting the development and growth of CalCCA as an emerging trade association and policy thought leader, with particular emphasis on building CalCCA’s regulatory, legislative, and data analysis programs.➢Led CalCCA’s resource planning and procurement efforts, including internal policy development, drafting regulatory filings, policymaker and stakeholder engagement, and thought leadership on the suite of electric sector policy and market transformations impacting competitive retailers in California’s hybrid electricity market.➢Developed and chaired CalCCA's Procurement Working Group (30-50 weekly participants), responsible for leading discussion and building consensus on complex, novel, and challenging policy issues.➢Developed and managed CalCCA’s energy data program, the engine of CalCCA’s data-driven policy advocacy, communications, and internal benchmarking efforts across over twenty member CCAs.➢Led CalCCA’s efforts to identify and address mid‐ to long‐term market and policy issues facing CalCCA members, educate internal partners, and manage efforts to design procurement and policy solutions to address long‐term industry challenges.➢Supported on‐going member education through development of webinars, roundtable discussions, and conference panels on key issues impacting the CCA community and broader energy industry.

Comprehensive graduate program consisting of interdisciplinary energy coursework across civil and environmental engineering, economics, public policy, renewable energy law, and business. Completed MS in Energy Systems and completion of core coursework for MS in Agricultural and Resource Economics (departed to begin full time role at CalCCA).➢Augmented public policy career with interdisciplinary deep dive into ‘hard skills’ – theory, methods, data analysis, and other aspects of economics, policy, and engineering disciplines related to energy, transportation, and climate.➢Conducted research on electric sector policy design and transportation electrification under faculty advisors from Economics (Prof. James Bushnell) and Civil and Environmental Engineering (Prof. Alissa Kendall).

Summer internship position developing energy models and conducting research on the electric power industry at one of California's premier energy consulting firms. Assignments focused on economic analysis, policy design, and regulatory strategy for client projects in retail choice, building electrification, and transportation policy in California and international markets.➢Developed E3 policy research, strategic analysis, and recommendations for California’s retail choice transition.➢Contributed data analysis, visualization, and financial modeling for joint-utility building electrification study.➢Presented twice at company-wide "E3 Lunch Talks" series, discussing research on competitive market design in US electric markets and providing an overview on state-level regulatory framework and political institutions governing California's electric sector.

Climbing, backpacking, trail running, and other adventures in the North American Cordillera; European tour.

Led internal strategy and external engagement for Southern California Edison’s (SCE) legislative strategies on range of policy and political issues impacting utility operations and planning, California energy and carbon markets, retail competition, customer rate design, and distributed energy resource policies.➢Managed SCE position development, negotiation, advocacy, and coalition outreach on dozens of bills spanning the full spectrum of utility operations, including resource planning, transmission, distribution, rate design, demand-side management, and distributed resources.➢Developed strategy and drove internal consensus on complex, sensitive issues contemplating major changes to internal operations, managing internal and external priorities to identify policy solutions achieving policymaker goals while minimizing negative impacts for the utility customer and operations.➢Designed and presented SCE’s annual legislative education program building technical understanding of the electric industry among policymakers and providing awareness and insight related to emerging trends in decarbonization, retail competition, and emerging grid investment needs.➢Developed lasting relationships with energy sector policymakers and stakeholders through a collaborative approach emphasizing the development of viable, sustainable policy solutions for the energy transition.

Completed the presitigious Jesse M. Unruh Assembly Fellowship, serving as legislative staff (80% time) while completing graduate coursework (20% time, via CSUS), continuing as head of Capitol Office responsible for management of legislative program.➢Developed an insider’s view of energy policy and politics as the advisor to a key member of the Assembly Committee on Utilities and Commerce during the formative period of California’s climate policy development.➢Managed the legislative agenda and bill analysis for thousands of committee and floor votes and met with hundreds of community and stakeholder interests on legislative and community issues.