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GHD is a 12,000+ employees worldwide, 100% employee owned, environmental, engineering, advisory & consulting firm with $1.5B revenue in 2020. GHD Digital represents the technology innovation arm within GHD and has expertise in layering digital capabilities onto the Built World to bring advanced technology solutions to the global challenges of sustainable Energy, Urbanization and Water. GHD's digital capabilities span from digital transformation strategy through to critical infrastructure security, digital engineering, Smart Cities and workforce resilience.

Lebanon, Ohio, Us

Lexi is the first (sm)ART Lighting company. The company builds both hardware and software that creates transformative, customized lighting experiences. Lexi’s Composition Software is “VR Photoshop for Lighting” to craft beautiful lighting designs that can then be easily downloaded and run on physical lights. Using Machine Learning, Lexi converts photographs of rooms to 3D renders which enables users to compose customized lighting designs, evaluate the addition of new & different lights and overlay a wide variety of special effects.In my advisory role I am expanding Lexi to the wellness industry focused on creating healthy living spaces - Circadian Lighting, optimal air quality, temperature and smart sensors for work from home (WFH), office space, assisted living and hoteling. All integrated and controlled through your Smart Phone.

Edmonton, Alberta, Ca

Incubator focused on technology evaluation for autonomous vehicle related products and services. Industry focus areas include transportation, logistics, defense, mining, agriculture, people and goods movers. Technology evaluation includes robotics & automation, simulation and testing, diagnostics, data & analytics, connectivity, safety and risk assessment.

Walnut Creek, California, Us

Consulting to government, industry and startups on new modes of transportation, traffic safety and digital infrastructure including migrating to cloud infrastructure. Leading AMG's partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a consulting partner.

Walnut Creek, Ca, Us

A3Ventures is the innovation lab and capital investment engine of AAA Northern California, Nevada & Utah (AAA NCNU) serving 6 Million Members across the Western States. The innovation lab’s mission is to build products and services that provide everyday value to our Members. Innovation areas include the two biggest purchase areas of Home and Transportation. A3Ventures piloted, launched and/or scaled a number of innovative services including Gig Car Share, Car Subscription, and House Manager Home Maintenance Services in addition to building new digital member engagement channels and marketing capabilities.

Walnut Creek, Ca, Us

- Launch Autonomous Vehicle test, development and pilot programs- Work with the global AV ecosystem to develop collaborative Autonomous Vehicle safety criteria, programs and guidance- Put the voice of the consumer and our 5 Million plus (60 Million US) AAA Members at the heart of the conversation towards AV safe commercialization and adoption - Deploy new forms of mobility for the next century

Walnut Creek, Ca, Us

-Oversee the strategy and innovation agenda for AAA to deliver legendary Member experiences in the digital world.-Mandate to develop new business concepts to replace a significant portion of revenue expected to be disrupted by the emergence of transportation mobility and an ACES world (Autonomous, Connected Electric, Shared)-Responsible for corporate strategy development, M&A, managing the innovation pipeline, product development and identifying new business opportunities and corporate venture partnerships across the Connected Car, Connected Home and the Connected Self-Work closely with A3Ventures http://www.a3ventures.co/ - AAA NCNU's innovation lab

Oakland, California, Us

*Reporting to the Vice President of Strategy, responsible for building the strategy team from the ground up and overseeing all activities related to strategy development & execution across multiple lines of business*Implemented a best practice strategy method that included developing integrated future state scenarios; identifying critical sources of risk and shifting value pools; prioritizing and evaluating new opportunities, and making investment choices and partnership decisions for the future*Worked with business teams to perform capabilities assessment, conduct innovation and visioning sessions, identify key stakeholders, and set the strategic direction for the company *Responsible for developing material including strategy workshops for company executives, internal and external communications and strategy material for the Board*Worked with a consortium including industry, DOE, National Labs, venture capital firms to develop a pathway to commercialize promising new energy technologies

Oakland, California, Us

*Built a multi-year $250M technology incubation and investment fund to identify emerging clean technologies that can advance California’s energy goals including the Smart Grid, integrating renewable energy and providing new services to electric utility customers.*Manage the operations of a newly formed innovation and incubator group within PG&E’s Electric Operations that is focused on finding and funding exciting new strategies and technologies for the electric grid that advance safety, reliability and cost-efficiency while advancing California's clean energy goals *Work with electric operations experts, regulatory bodies, policy makers, industry associations, research labs, academia, and other utilities to build and guide PG&E’s multi-year new technology investment portfolio*Provide governance and oversight to teams from initial technology identification stages through to technology testing, proof of concept, pilot implementation and full scale deployment

Oakland, California, Us

*Led a large, cross-functional team across transmission and distribution planning, engineering, construction, project management, finance, land and environmental management to drive improvements into PG&E's multi-year billion dollar capital investment program*Tasked with implementing highly visible ‘big change’ across electric operations, coordinating and directing new process, procedure & technology roll outs across 21 discrete but integrated areas*Led regular 45-day report outs to Electic Operations Officers

Oakland, California, Us

*Led the development of PG&E’s first triennial Research Development & Demonstration program coordinated across Electric Operations, Energy Supply, Customer Care, IT*Managed multiple Smart Grid filings including the Smart Grid Annual Report, Smart Grid Pilot Deployment Plan and the Smart Grid Deployment Plan*Developed the Electric Operations Technology Five Year Roadmap in support of the 2014 General Rate Case (GRC)

Worldwide, Oo

*Technology Infrastructure Implementation: Managed a $5M technology infrastructure redesign project for a major energy company*Strategy & Program Design: Created the strategic plan for a California agency with oversight over 500 agencies & boards*New Products and Services Innovation Program: Led efforts to rebrand & grow new professional services. Created the business plan, conducted market research, revamped internal service delivery tools and helped acquire & integrate a competitor firm (M&A)

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

*Process modeling, controls and configuration in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems including SAP

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Berkeley Executive Leadership Program

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