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Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Texas, United States

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• Provide market intelligence related to transmission planning, retail, and wholesale market design to multiple clients• Provide analysis and reporting of key issues in ERCOT stakeholder meetings• Develop monthly updates for clients, which range from developers (traditional, storage, and renewable), competitive retail providers. wholesale market participants, and non-opt in entities• Provide up-to-date intelligence on multiple issues related to Winter Storm Uri in February 2021

Austin, Texas Area

• Lead Direct Energy efforts to advocate for positions at Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) and the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUC) related to wholesale electric market design and policy• Inform the Direct Energy (DE) trading desk, fundamental analysis team, credit team, and distributed generation/demand response team of proposed changes at ERCOT and the PUC that would affect the Direct Energy competitive position in the market. Provide detailed monthly update to all interested DE employees• Represent Direct Energy in the ERCOT stakeholder process, serving as an Independent Retail Electric Provider segment representative on the ERCOT Technical Advisory Committee to the Board, the Wholesale Market Subcommittee (2013 vice chair), Protocol Revision Subcommittee, System Adequacy Task Force (2014 chair, 2016 and 2017 vice chair), Congestion Management Working Group (2019 chair, 2020 vice chair), and participate throughout the stakeholder work groups and task forces • Write and publish a monthly regulatory newsletter for distribution within Direct Energy and to its customers. The newsletter provides a high-level overview of electric industry regulation and competitive market rule changes • Provide routine regulatory updates to key account customers, brokers, and other trade associations as invited. Record quarterly webinar for commercial and industrial customers • Serve as Authorized Representative to ERCOT for all Direct Energy Qualified Scheduling Entities, Counter-parties, and CRR Account Holders. Serve as Corporate Member for Direct Energy at ERCOT• Co-Chaired the Spring 2014 Gulf Coast Power Association Conference (GCPA) (April 2014). Presenter for GCPA Fall 2019 conference panel• Served on GCPA emPOWERing Women Advisory Committee (2017 chair), co-led development of the emPOWERing Women mentoring circles, and provided resume workshop for GCPA members

Artist creating notecards of sketches from travels and life. Sketches of your pet with proceeds benefiting pet rescue organizations.

• Successfully formed and managed department of professionals responsible for the analyses of electric market rule changes in regulatory and legislative settings, and advocated LCRA policy positions at those venues via written comments, negotiated agreements, industry stakeholder participation and coalition building • Participated in LCRA enterprise risk management activities related to operations and competitive positions for the organization• Managed personnel issues including hiring, annual reviews, counseling, creating positions and issues related to retirement• Chaired Protocol Revision Subcommittee (2009 – 2011) at the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). (All electric market rules related to operations, economic incentives, billing and settlement, trading, and hedging are changed via this subcommittee.) Provided segment representation on the ERCOT Technical Advisory Committee of the Board, Protocol Revision Subcommittee, and various task forces and working groups at ERCOT• Framed policy decisions and developed consensus on market risks and solutions within LCRA and with external parties with similar interests • Managed competitive analyses after market events to determine causes and effects and made recommendations for changes to market rules at ERCOT• Developed and published a monthly regulatory newsletter for distribution within LCRA and with broad industry distribution providing high level overview of electric industry regulation and competitive market rule changes • Designed and taught Market Design Basics course for LCRA’s employees and its 43 wholesale electric customers in Central Texas. As a result, LCRA management and its customers were prepared for the implementation of the new Texas market.• Co-Chaired the Spring 2011 Gulf Coast Power Association Conference (April 2011)• Served on LCRA United Charities Committee

• Led LCRA efforts to advocate for positions at the Public Utility Commission and ERCOT in designing the new nodal wholesale electric market for Texas and for other rulemakings and public policies related to the energy industry. Trained LCRA management, conducted policy discussions and developed comments for this public process• Represented LCRA in the ERCOT stakeholder process, serving on the Protocol Revision Subcommittee• Attended ERCOT Board meetings, Technical Advisory Committee meetings, other stakeholder meetings and PUC Open Meetings and brought results back to clients within LCRA• Published monthly regulatory newsletter for distribution within LCRA• Completed Leadership LCRA in 2005. Leadership LCRA was a comprehensive year-long training program incorporating various personal and professional topics including public speaking, having difficult conversations or confrontations, management, understanding differences (Meyer’s Briggs, generational training), embracing diversity and change management • Served as project manager for licensing process for transmission line projects. Led team of professionals to research land ownership, held public participation meetings, developed cost estimates, coordinated environmental assessments, coordinated development of written testimony and attended and participated in administrative hearings at the PUC• Reviewed and edited contracts between LCRA and another Texas utility for transfer of transmission projects to LCRA

• Worked as Project Manager for the preparation of the environmental assessments and licensing certificates for several large transmission infrastructure improvement projects. Managed budget, schedule, community involvement, briefings for state and federal elected officials, focus groups, and advisory groups• Hired and managed outside consultants. Collaborated with land acquisition personnel, field engineers, transmission planners and management• Conducted field investigations and preliminary routing analyses

• Analyzed more than 40 transmission line and power plant licensing applications to evaluate routing and construction impacts on the community and natural and cultural resources and provided recommendations to judges and PUC commissioners • Prepared testimony and recommendations for administrative proceedings before the PUC regarding public participation, environmental impacts, archeological and historic impacts, community values, and health effects of air emissions and electric and magnetic fields. Testified in administrative hearings • Served as primary interface for the PUC related to renewable energy. Served on the National Wind Coordinating Committee Avian Subcommittee and National Regulatory and Legislative Subcommittee

Ms, Community And Regional Planning

Bs, Civil Engineering