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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Using data science to help clients plan sustainable energy & transport infrastructure & servicesLeading Posterity Group's data operations function to enhance the efficiency, quality, coverage, and usability of our data sources and analytics pipelines

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Using data science to help clients plan sustainable energy & transport infrastructure & services

New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada

Using data and behavioral science to enhance TransLink’s infrastructure and practices that identify, evaluate, and test innovative solutions in support of corporate objectives; increased internal innovation champion engagement by 40%Leading 3 project teams for an agile deployment of: bus occupancy predictions & behavioral nudges, demand management for new developments, and electric vehicle fast charging stationsConducted business case analysis for 4 shortlisted submissions from the 2020 Open Call for Innovation; 3 initiatives received executive endorsement based on the presented analysis

Surrey, British Columbia

Led an 89-member project team across 10 departments to prepare and publicly defend FortisBC’s long-term energy plan; produced 4,000 pages of regulatory submissions and 6 million rows of results dataPlanned and executed stakeholder engagement for FortisBC’s long-term energy plan; reached 70 stakeholder groups in government, industry, and civil society across 5 regions in BC

Surrey, British Columbia

Performed project management for design, deployment, and stakeholder engagement of 5 multi-year energy conservation programsPrepared multi-million dollar business cases for 5 energy conservation programsCoordinated upgrades of the residential program area’s rebate administration and performance reporting infrastructure; significantly reduced administrative delays and enhanced data-driven decision making

Surrey, British Columbia

Performed market research, business case development, project design and implementation for 4 pilot projects to evaluate innovative energy conservation technologies; achieved record-time project completionEstablished a framework and tools for pilot risk assessment, budget control, as well as outreach strategy and tracking, significantly reducing project variability; Innovative Technologies adopted these as best practice operating procedures

Toronto Und Umgebung, Kanada

Prepared a global audit of electricity pricing and Feed-in-Tariffs (FIT), producing an 8-page brief on connections between FIT policy and electricity pricing; used to respond to a Request for Proposal by the Ontario Ministry of Energy and InfrastructureProduced a survey of leading clean energy campaigns around the world, providing an 8-page ranking of campaigns that could serve as possible models for Ontario; used for a public engagement campaign for the Ontario Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure

Toronto Und Umgebung, Kanada

Directed 2 Lead Analysts in their oversight of 10-member Compliance Teams for the 2012 Cannes Final Compliance Report, ensuring that analysts meet reporting quality standards; achieved an unprecedented quality of analyst engagementSupervised 16 Compliance Analysts, providing proper allocation of resources across 3 compliance commitments for the 2011 Seoul Final Compliance Report; the report was published prior to the envisaged deadline

Ottawa, Canada

Prepared comparative policy analyses on 10 national resource strategies, to determine how management of strategic natural resources can be leveraged in foreign policy; findings used in an internal report on Canada’s position in 21st century world affairsAnalyzed quantitative trends on 4 classes of strategic natural resources (energy, water, base metals, rare earth elements) to project their long-term demand balance; results were used in an internal policy briefing on Canada’s position in 21st-century world affairs

Toronto, Canada

Reviewed 6 academic submissions to the Journal, evaluating the contribution’s academic and stylistic merit for editorial cell group discussion; 1 article was passed to the senior editorial board for publicationConducted final editorial review of 1 article prior to publication in the Journal, providing text corrections and ensuring referencing compliance with the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation

Toronto, Canada

Traced climate policy legislation and budgeting in the United Kingdom and the European Union, producing 2 technical reports on their compliance with commitments made at the Muskoka G8 Summit; reports were published in the G8 Research Group’s 2010 Muskoka Final Compliance Report

Vancouver, Canada

Liaised with the North America Project Development Team in the deployment of GL Garrad Hassan’s online natural resource database, providing early warning for database malfunctions; uncovered an error that would have caused complete loss of online dataPerformed quantitative analysis of data streams from North American resource measurement campaigns to identify and correct harmful trends in measurement performance; ensured online natural resource database compliance with industry quality standards

Lindau, Germany

Drafted an analysis on repatriating deported refugees’ possessions to Kosovo, evaluating operations cost and security risk to NGO personnel for presentation to the Executive Board; the repatriation was abandoned due to projections indicating excessive personnel insurance costsResearched and prepared multi-page reports on the status of minority groups in Chechnya, Turkey, Iran and the Balkans, assessing the risk of human rights violations perpetrated against them; used by the Legal Department to support ongoing litigation on behalf of political refugeesPrepared a 20-page comparative report on the occurrence of torture in ethnic conflicts, analyzing enabling conditions and social impact; used by the Psychological Rehabilitation Department in managing patients in the NGO’s refugee housing project

Master Of Global Affairs, Public Administration, Economics, International Relations

Focus on energy strategy and innovative energy systems Capstone project on Pacific Rim city strategies for deploying energy conservation.

B.A. Joint Honours, Political Science & Spanish

Focus on multi-level governance and comparative policy analysis Erasmus Intercalary Year exchange at Universidad de Valencia in Spain.