Experience

Strategen

• United States
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Director

  • Dec 2021 - Present

• Director

  • Jan 2020 - Dec 2021

• Senior Manager

  • Aug 2019 - Jan 2020

• Manager

  • Jun 2018 - Aug 2019

• Senior Consultant

  • Jan 2018 - Jun 2018



Office of the Minnesota Attorney General

• United States
• Government Administration
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Utilities Economist

  • Aug 2013 - Dec 2017

  Provide expert testimony on cost of service modeling, rate design, grid modernization and utility business models. Analyze issues related to conservation incentive programs, value of solar, grid modernization, performance based regulation, renewable energy program design, and MISO. Provide expert testimony on cost of service modeling, rate design, grid modernization and utility business models. Analyze issues related to conservation incentive programs, value of solar, grid modernization, performance based regulation, renewable energy program design, and MISO.



U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Economic Research Associate

  • Feb 2012 - Aug 2013

  Analyzed federal land use management practices and made suggestions to increase the social benefits derived from them.Developed a database that aids in identifying important agricultural lands. Assisted to incorporate the database into an integrated land-use mapping tool for the Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative. Analyzed federal land use management practices and made suggestions to increase the social benefits derived from them.Developed a database that aids in identifying important agricultural lands. Assisted to incorporate the database into an integrated land-use mapping tool for the Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative.



Colorado State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Research Associate

  • Aug 2011 - Jul 2013

  Analyzed the ongoing impact of the 2011 drought in Colorado. Successfully wrote and obtained grants, set and managed their budgets, and delivered final research projects. Analyzed the ongoing impact of the 2011 drought in Colorado. Successfully wrote and obtained grants, set and managed their budgets, and delivered final research projects.



Washington State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Economic Research Assistant, Center for Sustaining Agricultural & Natural Resources

  • 2008 - 2010

  Developed a payment for ecosystem services program for The Nature Conservancy. Responsible for establishing ecological metrics that could be monetized into economic benefits and estimating the benefits and costs to farmers. Researched and developed approaches to more effectively market and distribute local and sustainable agricultural products. Constructed proposals for grants and estimated budgets for research projects. Developed a payment for ecosystem services program for The Nature Conservancy. Responsible for establishing ecological metrics that could be monetized into economic benefits and estimating the benefits and costs to farmers. Researched and developed approaches to more effectively market and distribute local and sustainable agricultural products. Constructed proposals for grants and estimated budgets for research projects.



Naturalists At Large

• United States
• Primary and Secondary Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Outdoor Educator

  • Oct 2006 - May 2008