Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr · Washington DC-Baltimore Area

• Leverage working knowledge of MESC programmatic practice to achieve GHG, market, and supply chains outcomes
• Promote strategies and decisions that increase access and awareness of MESC programs, improve office sustainability, and increase project success rate
• Support and guide large, complex programs involving diverse partners with political vision across diverse stakeholders
• Mentor and provide guidance to junior team members across agency
• Identify and create quantitative and qualitative metrics for insights about supplier diversity and capacity from local to global markets across energy technologies
• Curate project and program development strategies with market segmentation, consumer research, market analyses, and macroeconomic forecasting aligned within and external to DOE
• Lead intergovernmental development of MOUs to outline and coordinate pathways to project success

Jul 2022 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos · Washington DC-Baltimore Area

• Scope, implement, and direct supply chain, operations, and clean energy policy portfolios:
• Initiate $7B+ public investment strategy and mapping of battery supply chains to stimulate private capital for U.S. energy, economic, and national security interests that align with climate science and sustainability
• Direct 50+ cross-functional staff to scope, execute, track, manage and monitor clean energy projects risk through nascent public-private partnerships to increase domestic competitiveness in global supply chains
• Create and transition clean energy technologies to commercialization throughout the supply chain
• Advance 15+ MESC programs by cultivating engagements with various stakeholders:
• Lead weekly convenings with agencies (DOD, DOC, DOI, NSF, State), Hill staff, private industry, non-profits, philanthropy, and NGOs to align impact and amplify engagement, including international diplomacy
• Align programs and set MOUs with existing governmental initiatives to co-locate $MM innovation ecosystems
• Advise and make policy recommendations to DOE principals:
• Communicate administration risks and priorities across sustainability, manufacturing, and infrastructure investments with briefings to Secretary and Executive Office of the President
• Establish advocacy pathways to enrich policy outcomes that advance the administration’s energy and sustainability priorities across geographic, geopolitical, regulator, and technoeconomic stakeholders
• Develop and review products and projects that advance administration priorities:
• Guide 70+ staff for proactive internal and external collection, analysis and dissemination of key insights
• Design, implement, and execute federal-to-local impact, outcomes, budget, and project controls strategy

Aug 2021 – Dec 2021 · 4 mos · Washington DC-Baltimore Area

• Physics for Future Presidents
• Present diverse speaker series on the who, how, and what of Science Policy in DC
• Develop innovative methods to discuss science for policy and policy for science
• Expand science policy into hands-on labs that explore current issues

Sep 2020 – Aug 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Communicate best practices and gaps in tech transfer, public-private partnerships, and workforce & education across multi-agency Manufacturing USA network institutes
• Identify and outline opportunities for policy implementation or public recognition
• Design and manage team meetings and other interagency-level meetings to facilitate effective tracking toward outcomes.
• Work with leaders across the Manufacturing USA ecosystem to support cross-organization communication, relationships, and collaborative models.
• Co-chair Adv. Mfg. affinity group focus on products and processes across Energy, Health, Defense
• Engage in diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts across education & workforce directives
• Co-create National Science and Technology Council objectives and priorities for Advanced Manufactuing workforce development

Jul 2019 – Sep 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos · Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Establish a formal career services strategic plan and system within SHPE
• Align workflow process and re-branding campaign for SHPE National
• Foster strategic relationships with SHPE’s Industry Partnership Council (IPC)
• Aligned public, private, and academic partnerships with policy frameworks to support STEM students
• Directed member engagement, strategy, and policy across academia, industry, and government
• Identified key workforce and technical metrics to increase engagement by 15% YOY

Feb 2019 – Aug 2022 · 3 yrs 6 mos

• Work across stakeholder groups to improve Hispanic representation in Energy Industry
• Develop STEM Energy and Equity in Education Initiative
• Co-create legislative summit in DC

Oct 2018 – Apr 2019 · 6 mos · Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Develop broad agenda for project management portfolio of 10-20 community science projects on competing timelines
• Assist in coordinating and executing international workshops
• Evaluate and assess project approach, tools, outputs, and outcomes
• Translate technical university research to facilitate community understanding of project scope
• Play a role in the research, planning and development of comprehensive communication between scientists and community leaders
• Write, edit, and manage communication strategies (e.g., memos, project summaries, presentations, emails, media pitches, and web content)
• Assist in successfully growing existing projects
• Work closely with the Thriving Earth Exchange team to identify barriers to community science and design services, tools, or resources that can help people manage those barriers.

Aug 2018 – Sep 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo · Washington DC-Baltimore Area

• Selected for a prestigious year-long fellowship with Securing America's Future Energy (SAFE) - a non-profit organization dedicated to providing the Nation with energy security and reducing our dependence on foreign sources of energy.
• The SAFE Energy Security Fellows Program provides the next generation of energy and national security professionals with access to high-level programming and networking opportunities to connect individuals who are passionate about advancing a national conversation on the future of American energy security.
• http://secureenergy.org/initiative/energy-security-fellows-program/

Oct 2017 – Jul 2018 · 9 mos

• Engage with industry sponsors to create program elements targeted for career opportunities
• Enhance STEM education project design and execution for grade 7-12 student learning
• Provide program support for Chief Academic Officer on technical and strategic initiatives
• Establish new relationships with potential sponsors and stakeholders at national conference
• Consulting on project priorities/activities to align with group vision and business process improvement mission

Sep 2017 – Aug 2018 · 11 mos · Washington, District Of Columbia

• Identify and update federal energy legislation strategies
• Evaluate onshore/ offshore federal energy legislation for development and reclamation
• Assess DOE and National Lab funding allocation to increase program productivity
• Compose letters, memos, and reports distilling science for Senators and staff
• Follow trends in demand distributed energy and fossil fuel resources and technology transfer
• Maintain government relations for events, briefings, meetings across tech, science, energy, education
• Offered government relations support for National Labs and DOE personnel
• Provided and prepped correspondence for staff and Senators (memos, reports, briefs)

Jul 2017 – Jul 2017 · 0 mo · State College, PA

• Methods to increase resilience and manage risk in decision-making for climate impacts

May 2015 – Aug 2015 · 3 mos · Houston, Texas Area

• Revealed stratigraphic unit that reduced drilling time with $1.6 million savings potential across 66 wells
• Develop ROP normalization technique and lateral stratigraphic mapping study in Black Hawk Fm.
• Identify key drilling and performance issues in HNAV geosteering software
• Develop petrophysical algorithms to increase speed and efficiency of horizontal drilling
• Diagnose cost-saving, production-increasing drilling interval with advanced analytics
• Cross-disciplinary collaboration with engineering team to improve drilling dynamics
• Utilize LWD data on BHA to eliminate walking and sliding inefficiencies

May 2014 – Aug 2014 · 3 mos · Dallas, TX

• Mapped potential recompletion candidates and calculated net pay for Cotton Valley sands
• Created hand-contoured isopach maps for individual sand bodies to understand depositional environment
• Prospected Austin Chalk reservoir using LAS and raster data for possible exploration
• Map and quantify potential recompletion candidates using depositional geology
• Interpret reservoir characteristics in tandem with geology to forecast asset value
• Build economic catalog of prioritized assets for ROI portfolio with basin modelling

May 2012 – Aug 2012 · 3 mos · Irving, TX

• Created well associations map correlating production to rock geo-mechanical properties
• Log and core analysis for sub-surface mapping of regional geology
• Associated over 400 lateral production wells to 19 pilot wells with multi-regression neural network application
• Statistical analysis and neural network correlating rock mechanics to oil production
• Modeled stimulated rock volumes to refine theoretical results with empirical data
• Create GIS maps and propose well development plans based on modeled results
• Incorporated 3D microseismic data to examine various fracture volumes for statistical analysis with Spotfire

Mar 2011 – Aug 2011 · 5 mos

• Engineering optimization for chemical partitioning and thermodynamic transfer of high heat heavy crude cracking and distillation
• Enhance thermodynamic transfer methods to increase system efficiency
• Create and analyze mass balance and chemical partitioning sheets
• Propose creative approaches to streamline energetic and mechanical operations
• Reduced pressure & temperature testing time for increased safety

Jun 2010 – Jun 2010 · 0 mo · Steamboat Springs, CO

• Collection and analysis of Mercury aerosols in situ with back-track mathematical modeling
• Develop geographical representation of Asian Long Range Transport over Pacific Ocean

May 2008 – Aug 2008 · 3 mos

• Worked with the STARS program conducting qualitative and quantitative research for other students to promote science education.

May 2007 – Aug 2009 · 2 yrs 3 mos · San Antonio, Texas

• Develop and execute syllabus, coursework, and weekly projects for summer STEM students
• Translate complex STEM principles into weekly projects and approachable lesson plans
• Incorporated STEM presentation series to practice communicating science