San Francisco Bay Area
Strategic executive in renewable energy and power systems experienced in scaling organizations, leading global cross-functional teams, and delivering complex energy infrastructure initiatives. Expertise in grid integration, power market strategy, project development, and M&A due diligence.
As a member of Compass team, Global Infrastructure, supporting portfolio company management teams to scale energy and digital infrastructure platforms globally.
As a founding member of the team, helped scale modular proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzers from concept to manufacturing and deployment across three continents. Built and led a global cross-functional team covering corporate strategy, marketing, product cost roadmap, application engineering, EPC-M, and fleet operations.
As a founding member of the U.S. team, helped scale the business to GW-scale across a utility solar PV portfolio within 2 years. Built and led a cross-functional team covering grid integration, development engineering, SCADA, software, and power market analytics. Designed and managed the development of the company's asset monitoring and control platform.
Drove grid integration of community solar and distributed generation portfolio. Managed transmission interconnection planning for utility-scale wind, solar, and energy storage projects across multiple ISOs. Conducted power market analytics to support project development and financing, and managed interconnection due diligence for multiple M&A portfolios.
Drove power and control systems innovation, design, and standardization for PV solar plant portfolio, with emphasis on utility-scale and C&I projects. Conceptualized and managed the implementation of SunEdison's unified SCADA and plant controller platform. Collaborated with Services and Operations teams to support plant issue resolution and performance enhancement.
Modeled and analyzed transmission and distribution power systems to evaluate the ability of renewable energy resources to provide grid ancillary services. Synthesized optimal control systems for load following, behind-the-meter PV plants compliant with CA Rule 21.
Developed practical solutions to address technical challenges of integrating variable and intermittent renewable energy resources into the power grid. Designed technical processes to assess solar PV inverter capabilities against grid interconnection requirements.