Education

Yale University

  • Degree: Environmental Engineering B.S.

  • Focus: Life Cycle Assessment, Environmental Design and Ecology

Stanford University

  • Degree: Sustainable Design and Construction, Civil and Environmental Engineering M.S.

  • Focus: Financing and building renewable water and energy systems

Work

Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Jun Surgical

  • Jun Surgical is a leading gender-affirmation care center. I oversee all operational and administrative needs, including navigating national and international insurance systems

Senior UX Design Manager, Silicon Valley Bank

  • Silicon Valley Bank is a large financial institution that offers banking services specifically designed to meet the needs of the tech industry, including startups and venture firms

Lead Product Designer, Indigov

  • Indigov is a gov-tech startup that focuses on next generation constituent experience management platform designed for government. The success of such a platform requires coordination across nearly every role in a congressional office (e.g., chief of staff, legislative assistant, legislative correspondent, case workers) and their constituents

Lead User Researcher, Stanford University

  • Designed and led user interviews for a Department of Energy-funded program that investigates how to structure future investment vehicles for early-stage clean energy technologies

Contract Negotiator and Deal Diligence Lead, Cypress Creek Renewables

  • Designed new bidding processes for third-party construction and procurement services for a $100M+ pipeline of utility-scale solar farms

  • Created internal project tools that rank and forecast development risks to a solar farm’s financeability; enabled company’s largest sale (by project quantity) of over 100 assets to close and generated over $2M in assets sold

  • Identified key technical and legal project issues across multiple verticals in real estate, environmental and local permitting, utility and power off-take contracting; refined narratives to mitigate turbulence with external investors for active deals; prioritized development milestones within project roadmaps with internal teams

Product Marketing Manager, Sunverge Energy

  • Sunverge was an energy-tech startup that focused on creating a distributed energy storage network

Market Researcher | Global Energy Investments, Queensland Investment Corporation

  • QIC is a Government owned investment company owned by the Queensland Government. QIC serves the long-term investment responsibilities of the Queensland Government

  • Developed roadmap for investing in clean energy assets using Australia’s State of Queensland sovereign funds; this strategy was adopted by the fund's investment committee and subsequently applied to diligence 7 additional earlier stage technologies (e.g., drones, car sharing, autonomous vehicles)

Technical Design and Engineering Staff, Atelier Ten

  • Atelier Ten is a global environmental design consultancy that helps clients create sustainable buildings

  • Surfaced design insights for architecture clients by analyzing and incorporating environmental data into the building plans; enabled architecture firms to achieve LEED-certified buildings for high profile mission-driven clients