Constantly gathering data about the complex world around me and trying to create beautiful things while I'm here.
Dedicated problem-solver interested in making sense of the complex world around us through a mix of quantitative (Excel, SimaPro, Python, SQL, d3) and qualitative (graphic design, user interfaces, written communication) skills.
• Conducted life cycle assessment (LCA) studies and created environmental product declarations (EPDs) for over 1500 concrete products, combining LCA techniques with large datasets to perform efficient and accurate calculations at the product level.
[SimaPro, Excel, Word, Microstrategy Reporting]
• Gave a presentation at the LCA XIII conference in Orlando, FL (October 2012) on high-volume implementation of EPDs to promote a market-based solution towards a sustainable economy. http://lcacenter.org/lcaxiii/abstracts/892.htm
[PowerPoint]
• Developed a generalized environmental multiregional input-output (MRIO) model to analyze global supply chain environmental impacts for corporate clients, forming the backbone of a natural capital management system that allows companies to manage their dependence on natural capital.
[Python (for prototyping), pseudocode (for eventual translation into C#)]
• Created web-based dashboards and reports for communicating multi-dimensional supply chain impact data to corporate clients.
[Microstrategy Reporting]
• Compiled a corporate value chain (Scope 3) GHG inventory in accordance with GHG Protocol accounting and reporting standards for a large West Coast construction company.
[Excel, Microstrategy Reporting]
• Designed an environmental multi-regional input-output (MRIO) model to calculate global environmental impacts of an international multibillion-dollar manufacturing company's supply chain.
[Python]
• Performed life cycle assessments of various photovoltaic silicon manufacturing processes using SimaPro life cycle assessment software. Built life cycle inventories using proprietary company data. Modeled electricity grids of several countries not in existing databases.
[SimaPro, Excel]
• Created new processes in SimaPro to model geothermal energy using Argonne National Laboratory data. Compiled results and discussion in reports.
[SimaPro, Excel]
• Conducted preliminary life cycle analysis of organic photovoltaic cells.
[SimaPro]
• Graded homework assignments and held office hours for two graduate-level classes:
– Industrial Ecology of Earth Resources
– Photovoltaic Systems Engineering and Sustainability
• Taught two lectures for "Industrial Ecology of Earth Resources" on:
– Economic input-output life cycle assessment (EIO-LCA)
– Industrial ecology of energy
[PowerPoint, Prezi]
• Assisted planning engineers in the Water Supply and Treatment Division of the San Francisco Water Department with input of equipment maintenance data.
[Excel, VBA macros]
• Conducted preliminary research on potential clients for rooftop solar photovoltaic systems.
[NYC Map Portal, NYC Open Accessible Space Information System Cooperative (OASIS)]
• Performed a site survey at a residential complex in the Bronx.
[Solar Pathfinder site analysis tool]