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I am enjoying working for Exponent, but I am also always looking for challenging opportunities in the buildings and energy industries. Please view my resume to learn more about my skills and experience.
Publications
- Research paper on geothermal energy in the U.S. and Iceland published by the U.S. Green Building Council, Feb 2015. Link to paper here.
- MAP (Schneider) Research Fellow paper on hydroelectric energy published May 2015 (GBIG research here)
- Research blogs on LEED v4, hydroelectric energy, geothermal energy, and green buildings in Iceland published by the U.S. Green Building Council, 2014 and 2015: Published GBC Blogs Here
- “Opportunities for Utilizing Geothermal Resources in the Northern United States”, 2014,
- “Navigating Sustainability: The Opportunities and Pitfalls of Designing and Constructing Green Buildings”, 2013
- “The How-To Guide for Light Industrial Micro-businesses: Startup Strategies, Retrofitting Your Facility, and the Dawn of the ‘Eco-Shop’”, 2010,
I am a civil engineer passionate about the design and construction of energy efficient buildings, with a background in building design, structural engineering, construction, project controls, and electric energy infrastructure.
Current Employement
I work with project managers to provide project oversight services for transmission line projects for a large electric utility. My services include creating resource loaded schedules, managing project accounting, monitoring project progress and spending, updating schedules with actual costs and dates, and coordinating with project team members and vendors. I also provide portfolio management services for the utility and report project status to the utility representative on a monthly basis.
I am also one of the primary schedulers for several distribution project managers at a major utility; I create schedules and update tasks for them while also teaching customers best practices for project scheduling in Primavera 6. I am responsible for the Construction practice's new adoption of Prezi as a platform for client presentations, and have been educating colleagues about how to use the product. .
Academic Experience
M.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Sustainable Design & Construction - Energy
Stanford University, Stanford, CA. June 2014.
B.S. Architectural Engineering, Structural
Minor: Violin Performance, Honors Program
University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY. December 2012.
During my studies at Stanford, I took courses in low-energy building design, energy efficient building systems, and managing fabrication and construction. In many of my courses, I worked on a number of group projects. Examples include creating an energy model for a mixed-use building, generating scope-schedule-cost models for a parking garage, and analyzing the energy savings between conventional portable classrooms and new, high-performance models. I was also the creator and project coordinator for an Engineers for a Sustainable World project, which aims to provide a technology education center for Parkwood Primary School in Cape Town, South Africa.
Software and Certificates
Construction applications: Primavera 6, C3D, Microsoft Project, Navisworks, Vico, iTWOProject Control applications: SAP, SRM, Clarity
Design applications: Revit Architecture, Rhino
Energy applications: eQuest, AGi32, Ecotect
Other: Java, Adobe Creative Suite, MS Office, Prezi, Simapro.
Certifications: Engineering In Training (2012) and LEED Green Associate (2011-present)
Research
During the summer of 2014, I worked for the U.S. Green Building Council as a MAP Sustainable Energy Research Fellow (now known as Schneider Fellows, within the Stanford University Haas Center for Public Service). I worked on several projects, including an analysis of distributed renewable energy systems in LEED-certified projects in the northern U.S., a market study on the impact of LEED v4 for the geothermal energy industry, a white paper covering the state of renewable energy generation in the United States, a cost-and-benefits analysis of current geothermal energy technology, a case study of Iceland’s geothermal energy deployment, and a list of strategies for increased utilization of U.S. geothermal resources.
I received the Milton F. Lunch Memorial Research Fellowship in the summer of 2013, and worked for Victor O. Schinnerer, an insurance underwriter for engineers and design professionals. I conducted independent research on the state of the sustainable design and construction industry and wrote a white paper that presented recent research findings and my analysis of unique liability and risk issues that green building project activities can present.