Experience

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  Perkins and Will

  • Director of Energy Lab

    • Jan 2014 - Present

    The Perkins and Will Energy Lab provides technical leadership and R+D for high-performance buildings design strategies, building thermal simulation (energy, daylighting, airflow, etc.), and computational, parametric design methodologies. As Director, I provide technical analysis and design input ...

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  Aditazz Inc.

  • San Bruno, CA

  • Team Leader, Mechanical System Product Design & Development

    • Sep 2012 - Aug 2013
    • San Bruno, CA

    Responsible for the design and development of the mechanical system design and analysis platform for Aditazz, a start-up healthcare architecture/engineering firm. Platform components include automation of energy/daylight modeling, HVAC design, selection of low-energy design strategies, and discip...

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  Center for Integrated Facility Engineering (CIFE), Stanford University

  • Postdoctoral Fellow

    • Jun 2012 - Dec 2012

    Postdoctoral fellowship funded by Autodesk to integrate Autodesk Vasari into an MDO workflow using EnergyPlus and Radiance via gbXML for distributed, parallel, and cloud computing environments.

  • PhD Candidate

    • Jan 2007 - Jun 2012

    Doctoral research in the integration and automation of Building Information Models (BIM) with energy and daylighting simulation tools in multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) environments. I developed a CAD-Centric Attribution Methodology for Multidisciplinary Optimization Environments (CAMMOE) and a methodology for automated product model decomposition and recomposition for climate-based daylighting simulation called the BIM-Centric Daylight Profiler for Simulation (BDP4SIM).

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  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), E...

  • Guest Researcher

    • Nov 2010 - Nov 2012

    Research collaboration developing new tools and methods for architects and engineers to evaluate building energy performance during early design. Research in interoperability, BIM, and energy simulation tools.

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  Precourt Energy Efficiency Center (PEEC), Stanf...

  • Stanford, CA

  • Graduate Researcher

    • Jan 2008 - Jun 2012
    • Stanford, CA

    MDO research for thermal simulation in the AEC industry.

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  Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)

  • Building Performance and Energy Analysis (BPEA) Thread Manager

    • 2008 - 2009

    Responsibilities include Energy Thread strategy development, primary management of Energy Thread participant activities, space boundary implementation guidelines for thermal analysis, and technical lead on the Information Delivery Manual (IDM) for early design energy simulation. The Architecture,...

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  General Services Administration (GSA) 3D-4D-BIM...

  • CIFE Visiting Fellow

    • 2007 - 2008

    Responsibilities include program development, primary authorship of the BIM Guide Series 05-Energy Performance, BIM standards, GSA conferences, case studies of BIM technology integration with thermal analysis tools, and coordination between GSA project managers, design teams, and BIM pilot case s...

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  KEMA (formerly Xenergy)

  • Project Engineer

    • 2000 - 2005

    Projects have included engineering and management duties for various utility, government, and commercial customer energy related projects. Conducted energy audits, energy simulations, and various other engineering studies. KEMA is an international energy consulting firm specializing in power ge...

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  US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

  • Energy Policy Analyst

    • 1999 - 1999

    Researched and wrote a report on U.S. and European government subsidies to the fossil fuel industry.