Aug 2023 – Dec 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos · Greater Sydney Area · On-site

• Chief Executive for Application Development, Sustainability and Building Management Services divisions. Focused on optimizing existing and delivering new products and services to market. Functionally managing service and product development for building optimization, performance and maintenance management. Direct P&L responsibility for $10M annual business and managing a team of 38 people.

Dec 2022 – Jul 2023 · 7 mos · On-site

• Responsible for solution strategy and P&L globally for Sustainable Buildings and Operations and AWS Asia Pacific regional lead for all sustainable solutions. Supporting external customers, Amazon and partners to define and deliver new SaaS applications. Responsible for supporting customers and partners in delivering new building management and sustainability solutions.

Jun 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos · On-site

• Responsible for delivery of sustainable services. Hands on leadership and support for internal and external customers. Leadership of sustainable buildings and operations engineers in support of large scale real estate transformations.

May 2021 – Oct 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• Executive chair for a committee of passionate IT professionals who seek to drive sustainability priorities across infrastructure and operations. Responsible for driving thought leadership and informing industry standards development, primarily for data centers.

Jun 2020 – Jun 2021 · 1 yr · Portland, Oregon, United States

• Primarily focused on home operations during COVID. Providing contracted services while looking at what's next.

Jun 2017 – May 2020 · 2 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Responsible for identifying new product and service opportunities for Hitachi's IoT division. Led a cross functional incubation team; global sales support responsibilities for 500 account executives globally. Provided design specification for Hitachi's first Green Edge product within the Lumada portfolio.

Feb 2015 – Jun 2017 · 2 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Responsible for designing and delivering Hitachi's first cloud offering, Hitachi Enterprise Cloud (HEC). Led a cross functional incubation team; global sales support responsibilities for 400 account executives globally. Provided strategic consultation to Hitachi Ltd. on global sustainability strategies. Supported Hitachi Rail with new IoT solutions development.

May 2016 – Feb 2017 · 9 mos · Berkeley, CA

• Supporting Berkley Labs Data Center Energy Professional (DCEP) program as a member of their Center of Expertise. The DCEP program certifies and qualifies energy practitioners to evaluate the energy status and efficiency opportunities in data centers.

Oct 2013 – Mar 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos · USA

• Founded a professional services company focused on data center planning and design services, energy management and energy efficient infrastructure architectures.

Oct 2010 – Jul 2014 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Global

• Author of the industry's first "how to" guide for deploying IoT at enterprise scale. Energy as a Service (EaaS) begins here. Sustainability and computer sciences come together in this best seller.
• The book follows Rob's career at Cisco as a co-founder of Cisco EnergyWise as the first step in Cisco's IoT implementation strategy. It takes the reader through how and why the technology was developed and how it was implemented at Cisco to deliver millions in savings.
• EnergyWise was the first step in Cisco's IoT go to market strategy, quickly followed by Smart Grid, IoT cloud offerings and Cisco Kinetic. This book is available in both English and Mandarin versions.

May 2009 – Oct 2013 · 4 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Global sustainability lead and general manager of a global advanced services team with 6 senior managers and a total team of 42, covering; strategy, solutions development and delivery of Smart Gird and EnergyWise Optimization Services, Cisco's first IoT line of business.
• Accomplishments for the role include:
• 1. Established Cisco's first ever sustainability technology role, structured it to be internal and external facing (solution delivery to market in scope)
• 2. Delivered Cisco's global sustainability strategy and drove it for 4 years
• 3. Secured Cisco's participation in The Green Grid, Climate Savers, WWF, NRDC, Sierra Club and IEEE sustainability efforts/consortia
• 4. Served as Cisco analyst relations lead for sustainability for 4 years
• 5. Delivered Cisco EnergyWise
• 6. Delivered JouleX acquisition ($106M USD)
• 7. Managed a P&L of $200M as Advanced Services lead
• 8. Authored the world's first enterprise Green IT "how to" book; has sold more than 20,000 copies (US) and has been translated into Mandarin; accounting for more than 40,000 international unit sales
• 9. Won Greenpeace CoolIT #1 ranking 3 times (annual award)

Mar 2007 – May 2009 · 2 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Provided the design specification for Cisco's first IoT solution. This design served as the blueprint for Cisco EnergyWise, Smart Grid, Building Mediation, Edge Intelligence and Kinetic product lines.
• Accomplishments for the role include:
• 1. Designed, funded and launched Cisco's Efficiency Assurance Program
• 2. Provided more than 20 analyst briefings on Cisco's new energy solutions
• 3. Provided design specifications for more than 60 data center customers
• 4. Direct sales support of Cisco Consulting Engineers and Cisco Advanced Services

Jun 2006 – Jun 2007 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

• Technical marketing role in Cisco's Product and Technology Marketing Org. Focused on data center networking, mechanical and electrical monitoring of data center power and cooling systems.
• Accomplishments for this role include:
• 1. Designed, funded and launched Cisco's Data Center Assurance Program
• 2. Developed and launched training program for 5,000 global sales engineers
• 3. Developed and launched sales playbooks and solution blueprints for Cisco DCN

Oct 2005 – Jun 2006 · 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Responsible for developing integration opportunities and technical marketing content for Cisco Technology Partners. Established Cisco's first facilities and building energy partnerships.

Jan 2004 – Dec 2005 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Responsible for product integration with strategic partners and global alliance management. Embedded PM and SE at Cisco Systems for APC. Focused on identifying and managing Cisco-APC integration opportunities and on-site support for global, Smart UPS deployment.

Sep 2000 – Mar 2004 · 3 yrs 6 mos

• District Manager responsible for both channel and enterprise technical sales. Management and mentoring of internal sales team along with coordination of field service resources. Role and expat package part of APC International Leadership Program.

Jan 2000 – Aug 2000 · 7 mos

• Primary acquisition and integration manager responsible for the operations, staffing, product line and distribution strategy in support of APC's acquisition of ABL Electronics. Relocated to ABL offices and worked with staff for 2 quarters in support of product, staffing, distribution and operative integration.

Jan 1998 – Dec 1999 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Facilities design and management of first purpose built compute facility for digital archiving of financial data for Fleet Mortgage Group. Fleet Bank and all subsidiaries were acquired by Bank of America.

Mar 1996 – Jan 1998 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Residential loan origination.