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Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Detailed rate analysis of electricity cost and load forecasting for U.S. data centers within market and regulated territories, including green tariffs. • Designed rate models to forecast electricity costs, built and tracked variance to budgets, supported site selection efforts, forecasted renewable VPPA and green tariff cost/credits, and prepared quarterly accruals. • Modeled load ramps for electric utilities to share monthly MWh, MWaverage and MWpeak shapes of data centers over multi-year forecasts, while also standardizing the intake process for new requests, adapting to scaling data center growth.• Architect of the Energy Team’s first ever interactive data center Tableau dashboard (built back-end database as well as designer of front-end user experience) to enhance transparency of portfolio and region specific cost, load and rates, scale analysis, and streamline financial reporting. • Development of KPIs, including reporting methodologies to benchmark industrial rates. Lead within Global Energy of reporting quarterly business metrics for Infrastructure leadership. • Partnered cross functionally to support energy activities throughout the lifecycle of the data center with Energy Managers, Finance, Accounting, Capacity Planning, Sustainability, Data Engineering, Site Selection and Strategy teams.

Championed 470+ regulated electric utility relationships across the United States, governing rate analysis, energy efficiency, green tariffs and resiliency. • Engaged services suppliers, aligning on expectations and providing clear actionable feedback through Vendor Business Reviews and other mediums.• Biannual Target representative at the Edison Electric Institute’s National Key Account Conference. Spoke on the panel, Capitalizing on Incentive Programs, and member of the EEI Planning Committee (Fall 2019).• Performed and presented analysis to strategically optimize tariffs driving expense relief across rate reviews and cases, inclusive of industry shifting time of use peak periods. • Partnered with utilities to facilitate sustainability, earning incentives from energy efficient asset upgrades across Target’s 1900+ buildings. • Sourced green tariff opportunities and collaborated with utilities on design of future programs. Conducted financial analysis to determine contract subscriptions which contributed to Target’s 100% Renewable and Net Zero public goals. • Critical operations leader of utility storm response and pioneered Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) preparedness strategies with California’s Investor Owned Utilities and Target’s Disaster Recovery Teams.

Project Manager for LED retrofits and capacitor installations (power factor correction).• Responsible for execution of salesfloor LED retrofits in 1,200+ Target stores with Bluetooth IOT capabilities for indoor positioning systems.• Lead site selection for installation of capacitor banks, secured capital investment, and worked with external consultant to perform utility rate analysis to save expense in avoided power factor penalty charges. • Diligently managed to Capex budgets. Created monthly process to analyze spend across thousands of invoices and partnered with vendors to minimize go-back work.• Created preventative maintenance processes for facilities to assess asset health and replace from internal database at end of life.

Inventory planning and allocation across Shelving, Arrangements and Seasonal Endcaps, producing $90M in annual sales.• Assumed responsibility over the three businesses originally 15%-20% out of stock. Strengthened the health of the business to drive low out of stock results through potential sales analysis, vendor contingency strategies and item level replenishment components.• Responsible for communicating department inventory out of stocks, turn and forecasting to leadership.• Fostered a community of diversity and inclusion through the Home Division Engagement Captainship. • Identified 10% of sales lost in the Jewelry Storage endcap due to breakage and unsaleable product. Partnered with Packaging Engineers, Unsaleables Experts and vendors to alter packaging and merchandising strategies to save $700k in annual sales. • Selected to train an incoming Planning Analyst on core concepts and procedures of the role.

Collaborated with a team of three interns to assess presentation minimums in stores affected by items purchased in multiple quantities. • Forecasted a 17 million dollar sales increase to the prior year in the Home Division.• Outcome determined by identifying multiples sensitive classes and adjusting presentation components to allow for an accurate number of skus visible to the guest.• Presented inventory wins and losses of Area Rugs to leadership, inside the Target store.

Master Of Science - Ms, Energy Policy & Climate

Overall GPA: 3.7 Relevant Coursework: - Capstone: The Impact of Plug-In Electric Vehicles on the Distribution Network: A Literature Review.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Economics, Math & Dance

Economics Major, Math and Dance Minors Overall GPA: 3.3

International Business

Studied abroad in The Netherlands in the fall of 2013