Founded in 2021, Helix Hydrogen is an electrolyzer manufacturer quickly maneuvering to meet the rising demand for green hydrogen, which is a critical tool in the realization of a decarbonized economy. to combat climate change, we need to decarbonize the entire economy. Particularly, sectors which are difficult to decarbonize with other methods, like battery electric, include many industrial processes such as supplementing existing natural gas supplies, remote location energy, steel production, concrete production, heavy transportation, and buildings. The green hydrogen sector is expected to grow from roughly 300 million dollars in 2020 to over 460 million in 2027, a CAGR of over 6%.​

Ensuring Erosion and Sediment control measures are being followed in order to prevent soil runoff. Applying appropriate quantities of riparian seed mix to ensure successful cultivation thereof. Installing/ aiding in the installation of soil lifts, coir matting, and in-stream features.

Managed tool and material inventory, equipment maintenance, customer satisfaction assurance, scheduling crews, managing crews, and ensuring that the best job is accomplished on time every time.

Established procedures for reporting and eradicating crop invasive insects and diseases.Created 3 tons of premium vermicompost from plant residue composting.Propagated and transplanted thousands of companion plants including flowers and herbs.Tracked production cycling and created the farm production schedule for the next year, including the addition of a new greenhouse.

Helped manage a $70,000 soil erosion abatement and stream restoration project through restoration of over 5,000 linear feet of wetland area along Bennett Run in Rockingham County, VA.Helped manage a $150,000 stream restoration project at the Edith J. Carrier Arboretum which restored 1,080 linear feet of headwaters tributary to Blacks Run, which is an impaired stream in Harrisonburg, VA. This project was a critical part of James Madison University’s Chesapeake Bay Action Plan.In general, duties included managing field team workers, ensuring that all materials and equipment arrive on site on time, logistics coordination of materials and work sequencing, coordinating infield design changes, tasks reporting, and expense reporting.

We do beautiful work that has a positive and lasting impact on the environment by planting native perennials that enhance the ecosystem; creating aesthetically pleasing landscapes; and incorporating old-world stone patios, walkways, and walls. I'm particularly keen on the ecological restoration aspect of this work. I have a passion for restoring the environment, and this job has given me the opportunity to learn more about the Shenandoah Valley's amazing ecosystem and methods useful to restoring the land that has been degraded due to habitat destruction from a number of sources. I'm eager to help broaden the ecological restoration branch of The Natural Garden.

I Functioned as a team member in the grocery, produce, and front end departments. Grocery duties included checking in and stocking grocery inventory from both regional and local vendors, ensuring that the store was well organized and clean, helping customers with questions, stocking items that are low on the sales floor, and opening/closing the store.Produce duties included: checking in and preparing produce from delivery via regional trucks or local vendors; ensuring that the produce section is well stocked, culled, and watered.Front end duties included: ringing up patrons on the registers, handling money, and ensuring that customers had a great shopping experience at their local food coop.

Sam Frere and I collaborated to create Collicello Gardens. A highly productive and diverse urban garden on just 1/10th an acre, we proved that high value agriculture is possible, even on such a small amount of land. During the growing season of 2012 and 2013, Sam Frere and I sold our produce to people through our Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program, and in 2013, through both the CSA and the Harrisonburg Farmers Market. We were instrumental in enacting a change in the Harrisonburg City Code in 2013 that allows for residential business gardens to receive business licenses. This enabled us, and allows other residential business gardens in the city, to sell produce at the Harrisonburg Farmers Market and to local restaurants and grocery stores. This project was part of our Senior Thesis Project for our major, Integrated Science and Technology (ISAT). The project began when Sam began working on a restaurant garden in the fall of 2011 behind A Bowl of Good, a local restaurant which strives to create globally inspired food with locally sourced ingredients. I started working on the project with Sam in March of 2012. We volunteered over 1000 hours each establishing and maintaining the kitchen garden. As a continuation of our work at A Bowl of Good, we started Collicello Gardens in 2012.In addition, we received funding from Valley 25X25 to conduct research on the effects of biochar and vermicompost on plant growth, particularly in hydroponic applications, during the fall, winter, and spring of 2012 and 2013 in JMU's new Biosciences building's Greenhouse. In conjunction with fellow students in an entrepreneurship class we created a business plan for a regional vermicomposting business startup that won third place in a college entrepreneurship class competition of business plans in the spring of 2013. Our Senior Thesis Project won the ISAT Community Impact Award in 2013.

Establishing the most efficient daily rout for my area, then visiting every house along that rout and interviewing inhabitants about their mode of living, their income, the number of children and/or other family members living in the house with them, their marital status, and other demographic information. Correcting any errors to previous census information that are encountered. Performing a government service with a kind and understanding attitude.

I helped research and document historic storm events in the five counties serviced by the Central Shenandoah Planning District Commission (CSPDC). This work contributed to the All Hazards Plan which is part of the CSPDC's disaster preparedness and mitigation program. The All Hazards Plan attempts to predict the likelihood of area specific disasters based on previous disasters that have occurred throughout the district.I also contributed to the Central Shenandoah Valley Bicycle and Pedestrian Program, which focuses on bicycle safety education and the implementation of bicycle lanes, pedestrian sidewalks, and walking/biking trails throughout the district.In working on both the All Hazards Plan and the Bicycle and Pedestrian program I gained experience in anthropological research, the use of ArcGIS and Access software, database management, MS word, proofreading, and learned about the various steak-holders that contribute to planning.