Experience
Kendril
Management Consulting
Principal
9/2017 - Present
Founder and Principal of Kendril, providing strategy advice to the energy industry on emerging technologies - smart grid, energy storage, electric vehicles (EVs), distributed energy resources (DERs), blockchain, smart cities - with an eye towards sustainability.
Modern Grid Partners
Management Consulting
Senior Consultant
6/2016 - 8/2017
Smart grid strategy and investment planning support for North American investor owned and municipal utilities.
Navigant
Management Consulting
Managing Consultant
1/2011 - 3/2016
Managed client engagements, client teams, and contractors as a Managing Consultant in Navigant's Energy Practice. Relationships with past and current clients led to over $1 million in follow on work. Researched and tracked current market trends, developed and maintained financial models, identified operational efficiency improvements, and evaluated investments in new technologies, product and service offerings, and energy assets for electric utilities, energy companies, and government agencies.
Harvard University
Other
Research Fellow
1/2009 - 12/2010
As a Research Fellow at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, I designed an energy technology investment portfolio for the U.S. Federal Government to implement for public and private research, development, demonstration, and deployment to accelerate U.S. energy technology innovation. Colleagues proposed the completed portfolio to the Obama White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in late 2011.
U.S. Department of Energy
Other
Chemical Engineer
6/2000 - 10/2006
Estimated effect of proposed environmental control technologies on power plant performance and emissions, helped grow international and interagency collaborations to demonstrate new technologies, and reviewed policies and research program investments for the U.S. Department of Energy.