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• Responsible for transferring lab-developed technologies into the market, including idea capture, intellectual property asset development, negotiating business terms, and monitoring impact.• Manage the commercialization strategy for intellectual property assets from a broad portfolio that includes renewable energy, energy efficiency, and advanced manufacturing. • Develop and maintain partnerships with venture capital firms, start-up companies, academia, and industry to conduct collaborative research and license technologies. • Monitor the progress of existing licensees and their partners to ensure that the licensed technologies result in successful commercial products, services, and consumer goods. • Serve on a council that manages ~$1 million annually in technology maturation and demonstration investments. • Develop and lead entrepreneurial training programs for scientists and engineers. • Assist with economic development programs locally, regionally, and nationally.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Founded the DOE Prize Community and advised 100+ members representing approximately 20 prizes and challenges with investments over $40 million across multiple offices.• Co-managed the Wave Energy Prize, an $8 million design-build-test prize competition that was focused on disruptive technology innovation, attracting investors, and raising public awareness. • Developed and implemented technology-to-market activities that focused on deployment barriers and partnership building to accelerate innovative energy technologies into the market. • Assisted with the management of the Small Business Voucher Pilot that seeks to help small businesses bring next-generation energy technologies to the market through partnerships with national laboratories.• Managed technical R&D projects across multiple national laboratories and industry awards, such as Levelized Cost of Energy and Economic Analysis, Resource Characterization, Data Management and Rights, and Early Market Adopter Opportunities.• Coordinated stakeholder engagement activities with industry, startups, academia, national labs, international organizations, and the public.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Competitively selected press internship to conduct research, co-author articles, build and maintain media lists, monitor news coverage, and assist with various tasks supporting the Senator’s press office. • Chosen to lead efforts to build and maintain a media and correspondence database used by the Senator’s Press, Legislative and Administrative offices. • Vetted talking points, analyzed statistics, developed charts and graphics and assisted with legislative research.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Coordinated the creation of a renewable energy stakeholder strategy with the assistance of the District Department of Energy, National Association of State Energy Officials, and interested stakeholders.• Provided research analysis support for ECOS’ 20 member states on various environmental and energy issues, including air, water, waste, renewable energy, regulation, and compliance.• Authored weekly news stories distributed to non-profits, state environmental and energy departments, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Department of Energy.

Lincoln, Nebraska Area

• Assisted the Law Firm Manager and attorneys with client relations and managing projects. • Coordinated the development of marketing and informational conference materials. • Led the office’s legal document management and developed office procedures that improved accuracy and efficiency.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Master Of Science (Ms), Energy Policy And Climate Science

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Political Science

Program On Negotiation, Executive Education Course, Certificate Of Completion