Summary

Ownership of multiple phases of the PSPS Backup Battery Rebate Program, a $6 million program which stems from Xcel Energy's 2025-2027 Wildfire Mitigation Plan and focuses on supporting medically vulnerable electricity customers who live in high-risk wildfire areas.  

• Leading onboarding of Phase I (permanently installed, grid-connected BESS) and development of Phase II (portable BESS) to support customers who both depend on electricity to power their life-saving medical devices and may be subject to more frequent Public Safety Power Shutoffs.

• Developing and maintaining complex partnerships with Amazon Business (distribution & midstream rebate) and the University of Colorado Denver's Center for Innovative Design and Engineering (customer advising & instructional videos), and the Center for People With Disabilities (community engagement).

• Coordinating teams across Xcel Energy's functional areas, including: legal, tax, regulatory, supply chain, marketing, wildfire community engagement, and more.  

• Complex stakeholder management, including representing the company at public-facing and community engagement events and cultivating executive and other leadership buy-in across the company.
  
  

Key Achievements

• • Successfully launched alpha version of C-Star ocean modeling system, leading a team of 7 scientists and developers while managing both internal and external stakeholder relationships; leading Beta and MVP to be released in 2025.
    
    

  • Established and optimized development processes, resulting in improved delivery times through structured two-week sprint cycles.
    
    

  • Implemented Jira with GitHub Actions integration, reducing delivery overhead and cycle time by 50%+ for the entire team.
    
    

  • Managed three-year ARPA-E/Department of Energy grant, leading compliance, reporting, tech-to-market strategy, and milestone tracking.
    
    Computational Systems for Tracking Ocean Carbon (C-Star) | ARPA-E
    
    

• Product Management
  
  

  • Spearheaded product-market fit analysis to define system components, revenue streams, and value propositions.

  • Coordinated testing cycles with internal ocean modelers and external partners (SCCWRP, UCAR, Ebb Carbon, Captura, NIWA).

  • Developed comprehensive user personas and journey maps through market research and stakeholder interviews.

  • Created and managed technical roadmaps, including backlog refinement and milestone tracking; conducted market research leading to refinement of company focus.

• Project Leadership
  
  

  • Led development of C-Star computational system integrating ROMS and MARBL on NERSC's Perlmutter supercomputer.

  • Managed multiple concurrent projects: C-Star System, Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement and Direct Ocean Removal Efficiency Maps, and scientific communications and asset creation.

  • Established and led critical team syncs across multiple workstreams (technical, partnerships, leadership). ○ Led support of various technical initiatives including Standard Datasets, ROMS-Tools, and Iceland and Salish Sea Field Trials.

• Communications & Domain Expertise
  
  

  • Orchestrated company rebrand including website redesign, comprehensive CDR/mCDR FAQs, and marketing materials.

  • Managed external communications through newsletters, social media, and industry events.

  • Developed domain expertise through participation in national mCDR Policy convenings and industry workshops.

  • Built and maintained relationships with key scientific partners, including UCLA CESR Lab.

  • Represented organization interests and led interactive demos at key industry conferences in the United States and Canada, leading to strengthened relationships and identification of new user and partnership prospects and development intelligence for product roadmaps.

Key Achievements

• Delivered GA (General Availability) in Nov. 2022 with premium enterprise subscriptions at up to $300k ARR each.

• Drove new platform development and GTM strategy from ideation to general availability and enterprise adoption.

• Managed design, prioritization, and delivery for two dev teams: one (5 team members) focused on consumer UI; the other (9 team members) on architecture, admin functionality, third-party integrations, and API/SDK development and deployment.

Product Management

• Translated and refined requirements from customers, partners, data privacy SMEs, executive leadership and others into roadmaps and the backlog; created developer documentation portal leading to improved internal-external product development clarity.

• Led UX design work for the platform by managing day-to-day efforts of UX designers, conducting user research, mapping user journeys and flows, translating design requirements from business units, and ensuring accuracy and timely delivery of UI designs.

• Shortened the feedback loop between executive leadership, engineering, and design by creating and facilitating new cross-functional design reviews, resulting in increasing the frequency of new feature delivery by over 100%.

• Stabilized features/improvements pipeline for dev teams and external stakeholders by managing tradeoffs and delivery expectations and standardizing the flow of ideation, validation, design, build, and delivery.

Key Achievements

• • Created the company’s first-ever product roadmaps, providing both the 30k-foot and now/next/later perspectives.

  • Mapped, documented, and led completion of development ecosystem; implemented company’s first product management platform.

  • Standardized boards management and ticketing processes; led team cleanup and refinement of a 18-month-old development backlog.

  • Improved testing management in collaboration with QA, creating and documenting prerelease, production, and triage bug processes, which reduced cycle time by up to 30%, resulting in more rapid iterations and faster GTM.

  • Improved release cadences by clarifying Kanban practices, introducing the company's first standups, and improving internal transparency.

Key Achievements

• • Recorded and reconciled requirements in Confluence between client and integration partner documentation, which were major telecoms and cable providers in Europe, North America, and Latin America.

Key Achievements

• • Researched, designed, and built a first-of-its-kind web-based community development space for one of the oldest opera companies in the United States.

    • Generated detailed quantitative and qualitative metrics from over 80 experienced industry participants.

    • Conducted post-build/pre-launch usability testing with 12 carefully selected users representing different stakeholder groups and demographics for the organization.