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Associate Director, Product Management

Responsible for growing the nascent energy storage business by working with technical and commercial teams to define target markets, revenue structures, and technology configurations to meet customer needs. Collaborated with origination team to add over 600 MWh of new storage contracts. Managed energy storage cost roadmap and led cross-functional product cost reduction initiatives.

Manager, Valuation & Analytics

EDF power solutions North America

Responsible for financial modeling, proposal development, and writing investment cases for $100M+ projects. Performed valuation and strategy analysis on a $215M acquisition that became Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind. Subsequently developed proposals into state procurements for the multi-billion dollar capital project. Improved internal processes and financial tools, including developing a user-friendly techno-economic model that decreased time required for plant design optimization by 80%.

Lead Process Engineer

BP

Engineering support role for the 150,000 barrel per day Atlantis platform. Focused on optimizing plant production along with a cross-functional team of reservoir engineers and production technicians, in one case boosting production by 2,000 barrels per day. Responsible for ensuring process safety and managing key activities such as new well start-ups, equipment outages, and miscellaneous troubleshooting.

Director, Energy Transformation

Walmart

Early member of the Energy Transformation function responsible for meeting Walmart’s zero carbon goal. Held split responsibilities between strategy and business development for EV charging and renewable energy sourcing. Created business plans for customer DC fast charging program, resulting in resulting in executive approval to install EV chargers at thousands of stores nationwide.

Process Engineer

BP

Project management and design engineering role for a $1B Brownfield development for the Thunder Horse platform. Led troubleshooting, engineering design, and building consensus around a solution to increase platform utility systems by 10% in order to accommodate water injection.

Offshore Facilities Engineer

BP

Hands-on role working a two week rotational schedule offshore on the Atlantis platform. Responsible for investigating equipment failures, performing engineering assurance for platform modifications, and managing emerging issues in order to maintain safe and reliable production.

Global Supply Management

Tesla

Responsible for sourcing components for the Model 3. Negotiated to close part supply deals 11% under budget on $20M of program spend.

Rotational Associate

EDF power solutions North America

Development program designed to expose high potential leaders to four jobs over two years.

Chief of Staff to CEO

EDF power solutions North America

Provide direct Strategy & Operations support to CEO as a member of the Executive Team for North America. Functional Head of Strategy, coordinating resources throughout organization to define and align company strategy. Manage challenging projects that span multiple executive functions on wide ranging topics from internal operational initiatives to business development for emerging market segments such as data center power supply. Responsible for driving operational efficiency. Delivered significant cost reductions from organizational design changes and business process improvements. Co-leading Data & Analytics department with CIO to modernize data architecture and deliver insights that lead to better business outcomes across the proj

Director, Strategic Initiatives

EDF power solutions North America

Responsible for grid scale growth strategy and managing business development opportunities in new industry verticals. Notably managed the competitive 2022 Bureau of Ocean Energy Management offshore wind auction, which resulted in acquiring a site with 1.5 gigawatts of capacity with a joint venture partner, Shell.

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