As Zalando's Sustainability Data Lead, I oversee strategy, governance, and tools across multiple business units. I manage a team of data professionals developing internal data products for sustainability use cases. I serve as the primary contact for leadership, customer experience, and technology teams for Sustainability data and analytics. By engaging cross-functional teams, I drive governance processes that align with the company's needs, customers, and regulators. I collaborate with engineering, corporate sustainability, and other functions to problem-solve and develop innovative strategies. Through scalable listening systems and direct engagement with stakeholders, I capture customer and partner feedback to validate our roadmap and strategic thinking.

As a sustainability advisor, I advised clients on sustainability strategy, non-financial reporting, outcomes measurement, and management of environmental, health, safety, and sustainability data. I drove efficiency by ensuring timely, quality client deliverables and coordinated with senior leadership to review and adhere to quality and risk management processes. I led stakeholder interviews and presented findings and recommendations in project leadership and closing meetings. I performed assurance and assurance readiness processes over sustainability KPIs and designed reporting solutions using existing enterprise tools and databases. With expertise in ESG topics, non-financial reporting frameworks, including GRI, EU Taxonomy, SASB, CDP, SBT, and GHGP, I provided strategic systems thinking experience to solve challenging problems.

As a digital solutions architect, I implemented and integrated digital solutions to enable sustainability strategy by translating raw data into related metrics. I drove ongoing analysis of business requirements throughout solution implementation and maintained a strong understanding of product development, enterprise architecture, and solution sustainment in rigorous client-facing environments. I assisted in pre-sales activities, with an emphasis on exploring and adopting new technologies and best practices. I liaised between technical engineering teams, functional stakeholders, and client leadership teams on solution development and regularly led technical workshops and training sessions, as well as represented the organization at industry conferences. With expertise in various sustainability software implementations, including frameworks such as GRI, EU Taxonomy, SASB, CDP, SBT, and GHGP, I provided subject matter knowledge in Geographic Information System (GIS) management as a tool for assessing physical and transitional risk and supply chain mapping.

- Applied GIS technology to delineate dam removal sites at a national level to ascertain and further extrapolate associated data and intelligence.- Lead cost analysis study of dam removals across the continental US that required the development of an SQL database and associated predictive cost model.

Participated in preliminary ecological watershed assessment of four stream reaches in the Nantahala National Forests as part of a United States Forest Service and Coweeta Long-Term Ecological Research lab joint study examining the cascading trophic effect of implementing a cut and burn treatment of a locally dominant riparian tree species.

UGA Tree Physiology Laboratory - performed research using standardized and peer reviewed methods to examine interspecific variation in physiological traits and gene expression between four different clones of Loblolly Pine in response to drought stress.

Performed analytical testing of water, soil, plant tissue, soil media, and fertilizer samples from various sources globally in accordance with industry standards.

Performed daily maintenance of various aquaculture and experimental systems including water quality monitoring.