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Boston, MA, US

• Overseeing techno-commercial tools to design, plan, and price the supply/service of battery power plants
• Bridging technical uncertainty and legal agreements to rigorously evaluate commercial risk
• Using Python, Salesforce, and GCP to prototype, evaluate, communicate, and deliver local and cloud tooling
• Using Jira/Confluence to coordinate product managers, data scientists, engineers, developers, IT managers
• Developing constraint optimization algorithms including mixed-integer programming
• Specifying and negotiating data structures, application algorithms and divisions of responsibility

• Acted as lead technical negotiator and battery power plant engineer on Americas deal teams
• Optimized energy storage systems to support renewable generation, provide demand management and improve transmission system reliability
• Offered engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning with options for software add-ons, warranties, guarantees, maintenance, dispatch and augmentation
• Was responsible for specifying and scoping work, negotiating contracts, setting budgets, and developing project schedules
• Authored the Fluence OS Large Generator Package Specification describing how control system could comply with interconnection agreements and grid authorities

• Specified battery plants and prepared design/deliver/service proposals for renewable energy developers
• Led technical negotiations as it pertains to design, scope, services, scheduling, guarantees, budgets
• Coordinated with engineers, lawyers, salespeople & commercial project managers to close multiple orders
• Reviewed CAISO and ERCOT tariffs to identify requirements for performance & qualification testing
• Held battery sizing workshop for engineers covering regional requirements and optimization methods
• Collaborated with service teams to create more intuitive budgeting models for preventative maintenance

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Negotiated & closed contracts to EPC BESS with developers, IOUs, and municipal utility customers
• Prepared specifications for switchgear, MV transformers, inverters, battery strings, HVAC, fire protection
• Integrated systems and components to comply with relevant NFPA, NEC, UL, IEEE, SPCC standards
• Compared installation quotes and construction techniques to determine trade-offs in cost and schedule
• Created processes for my team to quickly prepare delivery and construction schedules for proposals
• Developed Excel/Python tools to evaluate equipment configurations for performance, compliance, cost

• Managed code bases using version control, Pytest, Gitlab, Docker & continuous deployment to AWS
• Organized Massachusetts regulatory stakeholder sessions on challenges facing energy storage deployment
• Used Python and OpenDSS to evaluate how solar capacity on distribution networks could be increased
• Used Databricks/Pyspark SQL for parallel training, testing and optimization of ML regression models
• Used visuals to show fitted ensemble models weighted features corresponding to engineering expectations
• Performed market potential assessments of energy technologies for transmission authorities and utilities

Waltham, MA

• Specialized in Python data stack such as Numpy, Scipy, Jupyter, Pandas, Plotly, scikit-learn, statsmodels
• Prototyped and manufactured a small batch of psychrometric WiFi sensors with cloud data acquisition
• Tuned random forest regression models to weather/time-normalize substation and customer meter data
• Conducted on site energy audits and installation inspections of residential, industrial, commercial sites

Douglas, Georgia, United States

Split time between the outdoor plant floor troubleshooting processing equipment, running experiments in the laboratory, and using Python to calculate chemical reaction rates for distributed systems.

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Chemical Engineering

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Engineering Sciences

Activities and Societies: Dartmouth Humanitarian Engineering, Ultimate Frisbee

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