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Portland, Me, Us

Portland, Maine, Us

• Provide technical assistance and data analysis services for public and nonprofit clients working in a variety of social services through the Data Innovation Project.• Convene stakeholder and systems representatives to collaboratively identify and provide supportive interventions to keep youth safe in their communities and out of prison.• Develop, document, implement, and report on qualitative and quantitative research including surveys, interviews, focus groups, and other innovative research methods.• Research and recommend best practice models to improve systems like community-based youth justice, migrant education, and public health funding.• Created and co-facilitate a Power BI community of practice.

Portland, Maine, Us

• Researched systemic and institutional barriers to success to inform effective action in public agencies.• Contributed to building new capacity for data acquisition and analysis using public data APIs and in-house software.• Developed professional development self-reflection tools to help institute trainers improve facilitation skills, including tool development, project management, rollout support and continuous improvement.

Waukesha, Wi, Us

• Implemented customer-oriented reorganization, collaborating with engineering VPs to build cross-functional teams focused on product lines.• Developed and communicated progress on strategic product development and improvement initiatives with the executive team up to the CEO.• Led Product Owner team, directing focus of engineering teams to meet customer needs and ensuring clarity, visibility and alignment with sales and executive teams.• Worked closely with the Applications Engineering team and frequently visited customer sites to ensure a tight feedback loop from customers.• Developed data-driven decision making systems to inform product priorities, navigating tradeoffs and opportunities created by changes in scale, regulatory requirements and market demands.• Introduced and facilitated regular product prioritization and planning process, including stakeholder engagement and strong documentation.• Collaborated on designs for the next-generation solar and energy storage ecosystem, leading the firmware and data architecture workstreams, and identifying opportunities in wider clean energy offering, including smart thermostats, load shedding and virtual power plant features.

Waukesha, Wi, Us

• Led software and firmware teams through high-growth period from $5M to $280M in annual revenue.• Launched a wide range of new products and features including hardware, software and virtual power plant capabilities.• Delivered consistent high standards in firmware development for inverter, PV optimizer and battery management units, enabling rapid certification and recertification to PVRSS, UL 1998, UL 9540 and UL 1741 SA and SB standards.• Facilitated the successful coordination of five acquired startups and Generac headquarters, negotiating priorities, building relationships and working through conflicts.• Built diagnostic tools used daily by engineers, technical support and customer service teams to remotely diagnose and debug installed systems.• Introduced Product Owner role and built a team to ensure engineers focused on the right features and communicated across the business group.• Built effective firmware teams, leading through the transitions into and out of remote work during the COVID pandemic, including hiring, training and management.• Led team responsible for IoT data: reporting from installed devices, storing data in the cloud and providing data and device control via secure APIs.

• Member of Finance Committee, overseeing and advocating for budgets up to $120M to meet diverse district needs, including equity investments and universal Pre-Kindergarten access.• Chaired Public Affairs Committee, developing Coffee with Constituents public engagement program.• Chaired Policy Committee, working to amend, create and oversee implementation of updated policy on student discipline, harassment and discrimination and superintendent evaluation.• Navigated challenging conversations with board, district leadership, community members, the ACLU and law enforcement to remove police from Portland high schools.• Successfully advocated for symbolic equity action like new school names that better represent the student population and official recognition of Indigenous People’s Day.• Voted to enter a 3,500 kW power purchase agreement to enable the district to run on 60-80% clean energy.

Westbrook, Maine, Us

• Worked closely with leadership team on strategy to build small, growing solar and energy storage startup to capitalize on a rapidly evolving market and regulatory ecosystem.• Introduced product management and agile development practices to maintain engineering focus.• Assisted with due diligence efforts to close the acquisition deal with Generac Power Systems.• Built integrations with key partners to enable virtual power plant functionality.

• Worked closely with Product Management team to map user stories to engineering solutions and develop product roadmaps and engineering team resource allocation.• Built and maintained a platform that ingests, categorizes and stores 2 billion events/day.• Architected, created and maintained scalable services for creation, adjustment and continuous execution of custom logic for hundreds of clients to determine optimal email and push delivery based on website behavior.• Created integrations with strategic partners, enabling 3-4 million email sends/day.• Implemented monitoring and alert systems to ensure high quality, consistent performance of infrastructure and services.

• Led technical team at GoChime as CTO, VP Engineering until 2016 BounceX acquisition.• Worked closely with Product Management team to map user stories to engineering solutions and develop product roadmaps and engineering team resource allocation.• Contributed to and created a variety of open source software projects.

• Developed a prototype of an indie internet TV broadcast solution. • Wrote backend software using Django framework (python).• Automated broadcast scheduling software to optimize labor-intensive process.

San Francisco, California, Us

• Wrote copy for print and digital advertising for Suzuki, Capital One, and Bloomberg.• Worked closely with internal teams and clients on strategy and content strategy.• Managed social media accounts for Yoplait.

• Wrote copy and created interactive digital content for large and small advertising clients.

Amstelveen, Nl

• Wrote copy for television and digital advertising.• Learned object-oriented programming to build software applications.• Created immersive digital content, including games and interactivewebsites using a combination of animation and programming skills.• Contributed to memorable campaigns for clients including Dos Equis andFrank's Red Hot.

Master'S In Policy, Planning & Management, Public Policy

Ba, Physics