Rene Chan Email & Phone Number

Cupertino, California, United States

- Coordinate directly with tree crews, property owners, and major gas/electric utility systems to inspect PG&E’s power lines and to manage vegetation.- Assess terrain, habitat, environmental conditions, trees' health and risk for hazards near distribution facilities.- Estimate native and non-native trees growth and reactive growth based on environmental and other factors.- Arrange list of non-compliance and/or dead trees for removal or trimming to maintain public and wildlife safety, electric service reliability and prevent potential power outage and wildfire.- Prescribe trimming of vegetation around electrical distribution equipment to comply with state and federal regulations and safety.- Maintain compliance with CPUC General Order 95, Rule 35, California Code PRC 4292, and PRC 4293.

5750 Almaden Expy

•Managed and performed field inspections on different rebate programs in the commercial, industrial, institutional sectors, and residential landscape rebate programs.•Responsible for outreach, application, and invoice processing, approving of rebate applications, data entry and assisting on multiple events (Landscape Summit).•Reviewed and edited documents relating to the water use efficiency of large scale, public projects and policy.•Supervised eight college level interns on projects, timesheet verification, and schedule logistics.•Organized the process for interviews and recruiting applicant for interns position.•Oversaw water conservation materials and literature by reporting updates, distributing tools, and tracking inventory.•Created and executed presentations related to Valley Water to the public in Spanish.•Responded and handled phone calls, emails, and in person questions for different rebate programs and water related in a professional manner.•Cross trained with the education unit. Teaching kids about water cycles, EnviroScape, and salmon life cycle.•Job shadowed over 50 students to discover the variety of opportunities that Valley Water offers.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Facilitating construction of 100 laundry-to-landscape greywater systems at single-family residences in Santa Clara County. • Conducting phone screens and site assessments to determine if site conditions are suitable for code-compliant installation, establishing, and maintaining collaborative relationships with C-27 landscape contractors, designing laundry-to-landscape greywater irrigation systems, scheduling installations between landscape contractors and residents, and ensuring quality control of work performed by contractors and residents. • Promote opportunity to community groups serving under-resourced Santa Clara County residents, seniors, and veterans. • Respond and educate applicants about code requirements for clothes washer greywater systems and answer questions about plant-friendly soaps, plants suitable for greywater, and mulch basin maintenance. • Schedule and conduct site assessments for irrigation system evaluations with multiple clients to determine the specific plants and zones that will be irrigated. Perform water budget calculations, produce site evaluation reports and simple hand-drawn irrigation system designs. • Schedule dates for laundry-to-landscape greywater system installations with program participants and contractors. • Assist participants to procure delivery of all materials necessary for implementation of design, including recycled wood chip mulch, greywater irrigation system valves, piping, and materials. • Maintain photo documentation records of pre-installation conditions, construction, and post-installation. • Manage contractors (independently) to ensure each greywater irrigation system is installed by CA uniform plumbing code standards. • Produce operations and maintenance manual for all installations.

San Francisco Bay Area

•Provided outreach, and installation of water efficient tools for more than 1,200 restaurants in Santa Clara County and the greater Bay Area.•Assisted and educated commercial businesses and homeowners to implement water efficient procedures and retrofits resulting in a big amount of water reduction. Provided different languages Spanish, English, basic Cantonese and Mandarin with the diverse community in the Bay Are.•Achieved to collaborate with different corporate and franchises. More important, aid mom and pops restaurants that needed upgrades on water equipment.•Provided technical support and identify clients’ needs to match them with the right equipment for their business or household.•Collaborate with government departments and companies, such as Santa Clara Valley Water District, Department of Water Resources, Bay Area Water Supply & Conservation Agency, and East Bay Municipal Utilities District, as well as Ecolab and Auto-Chlor.•Make the case for implementing water efficiency tools by “making the case” for sustainability initiatives and potential for ROI.•Concluded almost 8,000 retrofit aerators and spray nozzles installation saving an estimate of 241 million gallons of water only during my last two years on the commercial department. In addition, I assisted an average of 28 houses per week from a quota of 140 houses a week in a team of eight members during my first half year, in the residential sites.

Santa Clara, California

•Provided help in customer service by answering questions on the phone and at the front desk.•Insured right transaction for membership, game passes, field rentals, team fees, and retail sport products. •Facilitated different tasks such as printing jersey numbers, inputting data entry, cleaning the arena, writing reports, and counting money at the end of the shift.

San Jose, California

•Assisted Dr. Jason Douglas, Ph.D. in Environmental Psychology, on his Social and Environmental Determinants of Physical Activity in Urban Parks: Testing a Neighborhood Disorder Model research under San Jose State University.•Worked directly with District 3 of San Jose, CA and attended schools/community meetings and presentation during the research process.•Conducted 200 surveys from 40 randomized blocks to examine the safety and health of the residence in the communities, detected 522 observations in 22 park assessments with a research team within District 3 of San Jose examined on GIS system and input collected data into SPSS database.

438 Coleman Ave, San Jose, Ca 95110

•Led volunteers to clean the Guadalupe River and set up all the equipment and supplies.•Investigated California native plants species within the park and owl species near the San Jose airport as well as the park.•Managed 3.3 acres-site of The Historic Orchard with over 200 fruit trees: prunes, apricots, cherries, prunes, apples, and more.•Controlled the irrigation system to make sure the schedule, time, and amount of water is correct.

•Helped low income communities to get access to healthy food by promoting a variety cultivation of organic home gardening with vegetables.•Assigned supplies to low income families to grow their own organic vegetables, such as seedling, seed, soil, bed, and irrigation system.•Created a data entry by inputting the collected information into database.•Wrote articles on the website about family experiences according to the interview about how growing and eating their own organic vegetables changed their life.•Created content and events for the Facebook page on topics relating to the environment, organic vegetables, and the community.•Researched media outlets for stories that help educate the public.•Attended events to inform the public and took photos for social media.

•Arranged food and materials before opening: refilling the dressing on the bottles, chopping different lettuce, restocking all food supplies, and washing and drying other ingredients.•Handled salad bowls, wraps, and sandwiches making it look aesthetic for the customers.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Environmental Studies In Restoration And Resource Management

Activities and Societies: Zen Buddhist Club - member since Fall 2011 Vietnamese Student Association (VSA) - member since Fall 2011 Zen.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Spanish And Iberian Studies

Minor in Spanish