Experience

Rappel

• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Solutions Lead

  • Nov 2022 - Present

  Rappel is enlisting thousands of medium and small businesses to join the fight against climate change. At Rappel, we use multidisciplinary energy and climate experience to deliver actionable and realistic carbon reduction solutions. We help our customers save money, win new business, grow enterprise value, and lower emissions. Rappel is enlisting thousands of medium and small businesses to join the fight against climate change. At Rappel, we use multidisciplinary energy and climate experience to deliver actionable and realistic carbon reduction solutions. We help our customers save money, win new business, grow enterprise value, and lower emissions.



DNV

• Norway
• Public Safety
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director, Markets and Risk | Digital Lab

  • Jul 2021 - Sep 2022

  Director• Oversaw three team leads and team of 20 staff to productize use cases that centralized value datasets, developed lightweight web tools, APIs, and innovative models to tackle the most pressing issues in the energy industry• Focused key solutions on the clean energy transition, specifically centered around the need to ensure the increasing saturation of utility-scale renewables in the supply mix is balanced with sufficient and successful demand management approaches• Led the exploration of emerging technology, tools, and organization processes to set product development team up for success• Served as opportunity manager for strategic bids focused on the evolution of demand-side management as a key component of the energy system Show less

• Director, Energy Insights | Predictive Analytics

  • Sep 2017 - Nov 2021

  Director• Oversaw team of 10 data scientists and engineers to develop scalable analytics that will more quickly and effectively develop demand-side solutions that will support a stable, resilient, and cost-effective carbon-free energy system• Integrated emerging technologies into everyday workflows, including spark parallel computing, lightweight python-based web applications (including AWS and Azure technology such as Elastic Beanstalk, App Services, React, etc)• Managed relationships and oversaw projects as Project Sponsor with new and existing clients including SMUD, the California Energy Commission, Puget Sound Energy, and more• Served as bid manager for strategic and innovative proposals that sought to challenge industry status quo and use research to develop applied and common-sense policy guidance (such as using demand-side resources in support of managing shifting peak and temporal wholesale pricing impacts of renewables, statewide electrification campaigns, integration of demand-side solutions into IRP processes, scaling big-data integration in lieu of expensive on-site audits, etc)• As line manager, coached staff to identify personal strengths, weaknesses, and passions; worked to promote collaborative team that celebrated and identified synergies across diverse working styles, strengths, weaknesses, and backgrounds Show less

• Consultant, Senior Consultant, Project Manager

  • Apr 2011 - Sep 2017

  Energy Policy Research Consultant and Project Manager• Oversaw innovative teams to produce insightful and data-driven research that informed the advancement and evolution of energy efficiency targets and subsidies• Designed new research approaches that synthesized big datasets, stratified surveys, supply chain research, and cost-benefit, forecasting and behavioral models• Applied statistically-rigorous research to ensure policies strategically aligned with the energy transition and kept pace with evolving market trends such as accelerated LED and renewable cost reductions• Led complex stakeholder and partner groups to design strategies that met multiple party's objectives• Empowered team to contribute collaboratively in high-performing environment that centered on clear, transparent, and effective communication• Contributed to R, SAS, and Excel analytics directly and as senior advisor• Orchestrated staff and timelines to ensure team smoothly met regulatory-manded deadlinesMobile Product Development Lead• Envisioned and designed groundbreaking mobile product that served as a scalable way to collect and analyze existing buildings and energy efficiency field data while simultaneously improving data quality and process efficiency• Oversaw development of graphics-driven dashboard and improvements in program efficiencies, UX innovations, and program automations• Optimized design and execution with multiple stakeholders including field staff, analysts, and clients including the California Public Utilities Commission, Massachusetts Program Administrators, Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance, Tennessee Valley Authority, and others Show less

• Analyst

  • Jul 2008 - Jul 2011

  Economic Modeler• Evaluated cost-effectiveness of energy efficiency opportunities to inform state, utility, and international policyEnergy Data Field Staff• Developed robust understanding of residential and commercial end use saturation and energy consumption through on-site surveys and testing