In order to shed a little more specificity on my experiences in and outside of academia up to this point, beyond the "about the author" page.
Current Employment
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (2/2014-Current)
- Position: Researcher for Renewable Energy Economics and Market Analysis (Post-Masters)
- Description: I work to support a variety of projects in the Water Power Technologies group that fall within the economics, policy, and optimization of hydropower facilities. This includes modeling and regression via Python, R, and Excel.; manual and automated data collection and sanitation; writing energy policy; submitting conference and journal papers.
- Developing a deep understanding of hydropower-as-a-renewable accounting. This involved research into federal incentives, individual state RPSs, research into general REC verification groups (such as Green-e), and hydro-specific entities (such as LIHI).
Previous Employment
- Indiana Geological Survey (1/2013-12/2013)
- Position: Graduate Research Intern
- Project: Geothermal heat pump system design analysis, focusing on soil thermal conductivity and localized temperature change. Conducted research review, and distilled industry system design parameters into Matlab script to test real-time field data.
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: (5/2012-5/2013)
- Position: Graduate Research Intern (on-site summer 2012, ongoing intermittent project afterwards)
- Project: Define sustainability in urban settings and identify areas of strength at LLNL that could be applied to fix current urban problems or prepare for a more urbanized future. Also analyze flows of energy and resources through cities to create Sankey diagrams.
- School of Public and Environmental Affairs Business and IT Services (SPEABITS, 08/2012-06/2013)
- Position: Graduate Assistant
- Description: Support faculty and staff with IT issues. Build and maintain labs and individual machines.
- Sustainability Dashboard (10/2011-06/2012)
- Position: Graduate Research Intern
- Description: Conduct research on sustainability as it relates to commercial buildings. Generate "sustainability facts" from larger articles. General stress-testing of webpage, data management.
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, Fall 2009)
- Position: Undergraduate research assistant
- Description: Code surveys and handle minor research design; focus was on environmental social science research, specifically attitudes and responses of children to outdoor activities.
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, 8/2008-6/2011)
- Position: Peer Computing Consultant
- Description: Maintain computer labs, manage supplies and equipment inventories, assist users with software issues.