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Berlin, De

Berlin, Germany

I am a writer with international innovation and sustainability experience that has given me a deep understanding of the clean growth sector. My work experience allows me to translate technical concepts to business or customer stakeholders. I'm passionate about communicating complex topics to a range of audiences through my writing.- Copywriting: I create engaging, tailor-made content which communicates complex subjects in an accessible and engaging way, including articles, blogs, editorial briefs, opinion pieces and social media text.- Technical Writer: I use my background in the energy, transport, infrastructure and sustainability sectors and my engineering background to translate between the technical and non-technical stakeholders in a meaningful and informative way, including grant proposals, project summaries, innovation reports, whitepapers, and research papers. - Corporate reporting: I work with businesses to communicate their corporate strategy and vision clearly to stakeholders.eagerandco.com

Berlin, Germany

Responsible for the development and delivery of Innovate UK’s innovation strategy within the built environment. I used my expertise to support SMEs and start-ups developing innovative products and services in smart cities and cleantech, including IoT, drones, AR/VR, AI, and blockchain (distributed ledger). I managed relationships across government, SMEs and industry to ensure the portfolio goals are aligned with industry and government priorities. - Represented Innovate UK on an international smart cities trade delegation to Australia. - Negotiated the development of a strategically important partnerships and business development opportunities.- Successful management of the built environment, retrofit, refurbishment and BIM budget and R&D outputs.- Strong presentation skills demonstrated at numerous conferences, trade shows, workshops and events.- Worked on Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund - Transforming Construction team. This aims to make buildings more affordable, efficient, safer and healthier by moving to standardised modular components that can be manufactured off-site and digitise this processes.

London, United Kingdom

I provided specialist analysis, advice and support to internal and external customers (Government, Ofgem, suppliers, network operators) on the operation, design, architecture and future changes to the Balancing and Settlements Code. • Utilised strategic thinking and business analysis skills to create Target Operating Models for Ofgem’s Significant Code Review on settlements and brief for the Executive on market trends. • Gathered data and analysed market trends to develop future market scenarios that outlined risks and opportunities of emerging tech (such as blockchain, big data, IoT etc), this informed the Executive’s corporate strategy development. • Utilised strong business analysis skills to lead the creation and implementation of business changes that allowed the integration of new technologies (e.g. EVs) into the wholesale market.• Led analysis and testing of a new tool to prove the new design improved settlement accuracy.

Melbourne, Australia

My focus was to develop policy proposals and provide advice to Government, consumer groups and energy market institutions to inform policy development and AEMO’s strategic goals. • Utilised strong interpersonal skills to establish and pro-actively maintain stakeholder relationships. These relationships were crucial in developing informed regulatory and policy proposals.• An ability to collaborate and problem solve enabled me to negotiate across businesses units with competing priorities to create a unified external company policy positions and inform strategy. • Strong analytical skills and comprehensive industry knowledge assisted in the development of proposals for changes to the National Electricity Rules, including retail market competition, smart meters & demand side response. • Strong written communication skills demonstrated through regularly briefing material and analysis provided for Executive and Board members. • Business analysis skills used to develop procedures to set up a new meter data governance body, the Information Exchange Committee (IEC).

Melbourne, Australia

I drove the delivery of the sustainability program and culture at AEMO, creating this role for myself that I held in addition to my Analyst duties.• Proactively and strategically established a program manager role for myself by building the business case for the first Corporate Social Responsibility program at AEMO which was endorsed by the Board.• Developed and delivered the strategic plan, sustainability communications strategy and community partnership strategy. • Integrated sustainability metrics into Board reporting and Health and Safety committee reporting• Led a team of 15 volunteers to deliver the sustainability strategy. • Planned and performed an energy audit identifying $40,000(AUD) of annual energy cost savings.• Drove the inclusion of sustainability for the first time in AEMO's annual report

Melbourne, Australia

I supported the development of the AEMO corporate strategy, People Plan, Retail Roadmap and IT blueprint. Regularly providing advice to executives and senior management. • Utilised strong interpersonal skills to engage with AEMO employees, including senior managers, to assess workplace capabilities and needs and feed these into the development of the People Plan.• Collaborated with a small team to support the delivery of the new vision and strategic initiatives.• Presented at the companywide roadshows on the new AEMO corporate strategy. • Strategic input into the development of the annual Board research paper.

Melbourne, Australia

Used my strategic and analysis skills to deliver key projects, including the Value of Customer Reliability (VCR) review and AEMO’s strategic Retail Roadmap. • Supported the team’s delivery of the VCR report, including analysis of the energy efficiency data and writing parts of the report.• Researched international markets, policy and emerging trends to inform the retail strategy. • Market research and market analysis as required

Sydney, Australia

I used my analytical and organisational skills to improve prudential estimation efficiency and performed key operational tasks. • Led a project that mapped metering points of large loads to system SCADA points to improve prudential estimates. I establishment a new internal operational processes and improve prudential estimation efficiency by almost $1 million (AUD). • Created the Settlement Estimation Guide for participants and communicated it with stakeholders.

Sydney, Australia

Supported gas and electricity retail change management stakeholder groups. Worked on Business-to-Business (B2B) working group change management.

Streetlevel Community Welfare Centre

I provided energy affordability assistance, advice and advocacy support to low-income households experiencing difficulty paying for their energy needs. This was as part of the Australian Government’s Clean Energy Future plan.

- Supported the engineering team conduct commercial energy efficiency audits to ISO standard and NABERS ratings.- In charge of marketing which involved the use of google analytics, google ad word, managing the CRM and circulating monthly communications to clients.

Conducted residential home energy efficiency assessments, this was a door-to-door sales position.

Bachelor Of Renewable Energy Engineering/Bachelor Arts, Renewable Energy

Activities and Societies: PVsoc, Women In Renewable Energy (WIRE)President of Photovoltaic Society in 2008, Arts Major: Environmental.

Exchange Semester, Bachelor Of Renewable Energy Engineering/Bachelor Arts

Activities and Societies: Greenbuild 2011, Toronto

Executive Mba

Business Foundations | Accounting | Markets and Economics | Data and Decisions | Operations Management | Leading Organisations | Marketing.