2025 to present
Assistant Director for Administrative Services
Office of Energy Resources · State of Rhode Island
- Lead the statewide Lead by Example program, coordinating efficiency and clean energy work across state agencies, municipalities, and public schools.
- Direct energy procurement for all state agencies, holding the state's electricity supply at fully renewable.
- Built Rhode Island's first commercial and residential energy storage rebate program, from design through launch.
- Run statewide benchmarking for state facilities, setting performance baselines and tracking progress against mandated reduction targets.
- Oversee interagency agreements, program budgets, and EV charging infrastructure across state property.
2021 to 2025
Implementation Director, Policy and Programs
Office of Energy Resources
- Established the Public School Energy Equity Program, securing federal and state funding for efficiency upgrades in underserved schools.
- Principal Investigator on federal Department of Energy grants, carrying both compliance and delivery.
- Led competitive energy procurement, sourcing renewable electricity at meaningful cost savings against the prior contract.
2018 to 2021
Administrator of Energy Programs
Office of Energy Resources
- Managed statewide efficiency retrofits across government facilities.
- Directed EV charging deployment and wrote the state's fleet electrification strategy.
- Established a strategic energy management partnership with the state's major utilities.
2015 to 2018
Chief of Program Development
Office of Energy Resources
- Partnered with RIDOT to convert every state-owned streetlight to LED, then built the municipal conversion program behind it.
- Created master procurement agreements for turn-key efficiency, renewable energy, and EV charging projects: the contracting spine the programs above still run on.
2013 to 2015
Energy Fellow
University of Rhode Island
Supported the federally funded Rhode Island Public Energy Partnership, a deep-retrofit initiative across state and municipal facilities.
2011 to 2013
Research Assistant
University of Rhode Island
Applied GIS and econometric methods to the economic effects of environmental quality on property values.
1998 to 2009
Store Manager
Expert · Consumer electronics and appliances · Athens, Greece
Ran a retail operation and its staff for eleven years before leaving Greece for graduate school. It is still the best training in demand forecasting I have had.