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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.

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.
• 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