I am an energy and technology strategist focused on advancing innovative solutions at the intersection of infrastructure, emerging technologies, and sustainable energy systems. My work has centered on helping organizations navigate complex transitions in power generation, digital infrastructure, and industrial transformation by translating technical innovation into practical, scalable strategies.

Over the past decade, I have worked alongside leading technology companies—including Amazon Web Services and Google—to support the development of resilient infrastructure and forward-looking energy solutions. My expertise spans strategic partnerships, market development, and technology commercialization, with a particular focus on areas such as data center energy, geothermal innovation, decarbonization pathways, and the integration of advanced technologies like AI and machine learning into industrial systems.

I am particularly passionate about bridging the gap between technology developers, industry operators, policymakers, and local communities. Throughout my career, I have focused on aligning technological capability with real-world operational needs—helping organizations adopt solutions that are not only technically sound, but also economically viable and socially responsible.

Building on these experiences, I recently founded The Mesa Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving community understanding of large-scale infrastructure and energy development. The institute focuses on education, transparency, and collaboration—helping communities, industry, and policymakers make more informed decisions about the future of energy, digital infrastructure, and resource management.

My background combines scientific training with industry experience across energy, software, and innovation ecosystems. I hold dual master’s degrees in Geology and Biology and bring a multidisciplinary perspective to solving complex challenges in the rapidly evolving landscape of energy and technology.

Through my work in the data center and energy infrastructure ecosystem, I’ve had the opportunity to see how rapidly the demand for digital infrastructure is growing. Data centers are becoming critical components of modern society, enabling everything from artificial intelligence to cloud computing and global connectivity. At the same time, these facilities require significant energy, water, land, and community resources, which makes thoughtful planning and community engagement essential.

While working in business development for data center infrastructure, I also experienced the issue from another perspective—as a resident in a rural community where a data center was being proposed nearby. What I observed was a significant information gap. Many communities across the United States are being evaluated for large-scale infrastructure projects, yet residents often have little visibility into what is being planned until decisions are already well underway. In some cases, nondisclosure agreements between developers and local officials can limit transparency, leaving communities unsure how projects may affect their land, resources, and infrastructure.

This experience led me to found The Mesa Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving transparency, education, and collaboration around major infrastructure development. The Institute focuses on helping communities better understand projects such as data centers, energy facilities, and other large-scale infrastructure so they can engage in informed, constructive dialogue about the future of their regions.

Our mission is not to oppose innovation or infrastructure development. In fact, these projects can bring significant opportunity. Rather, The Mesa Institute seeks to ensure that communities are equipped with the knowledge, tools, and frameworks necessary to participate meaningfully in the conversation. That includes understanding potential impacts on energy systems, water resources, land use, emergency services, and long-term economic development.

We also work to highlight best practices that create mutual benefit for both developers and communities—such as infrastructure investments, support for local services like fire departments and emergency response, workforce development, and long-term regional resilience.

Ultimately, The Mesa Institute exists to foster informed collaboration between industry, policymakers, and local communities so that the next generation of digital and energy infrastructure is built in a way that is transparent, responsible, and beneficial for everyone involved.

Within the Energy Business Unit at AWS, my mission is to engage with energy and utility companies to build deep, long-term strategic relationships across the entire Amazon ecosystem and help customers unlock value beyond AWS, by connecting them to the full breadth of Amazon’s capabilities—bringing together our data center infrastructure organization, energy procurement teams, Alexa and smart home technologies, Leo (previously Project Kuiper), Amazon Business, logistics and robotics groups, and other emerging parts of the company shaping the future of energy and digital infrastructure. My work centers on understanding a customer’s long-term priorities, identifying transformational opportunities, and architecting multi-organization engagements that align Amazon’s global strengths with the evolving needs of the energy sector. I also sat on the geothermal strategy team to build Amazon's first mission to procure geothermal energy to power Amazon data centers. 

At Onward, a technology start-up focused on developing innovative solutions to support the energy transition, I served as Director of Innovation. In this role, I led the company’s innovation initiatives, working closely with a team of scientists to develop forward-thinking technologies and bring them from concept to market.

My work involved conducting market and competitive analyses to identify promising opportunities, validating the strategic direction of emerging prototypes, and guiding minimum viable products (MVPs) toward commercialization through strategic partnerships and early sales engagements. I focused heavily on building the partnerships and supporting ecosystems needed to move innovative ideas through the full lifecycle—from early concept to deployable solutions. The solutions we developed leveraged AI, machine learning, and automation across a range of emerging energy and environmental applications. These included technologies supporting carbon sequestration, satellite segmentation and super-resolution for nature-based carbon sinks, automated pipelines for document geolocation, AI-driven lithofacies prediction from well logs, regenerative agriculture monitoring, hydrogen exploration, and critical minerals exploration and logistics tracking. Through this work, I helped bridge scientific innovation with market strategy—ensuring that new technologies were not only technically viable but also positioned to deliver real-world impact.

Within Google Cloud’s Industry Solutions organization, I worked on developing differentiated solutions designed to help industry leaders address complex operational and sustainability challenges. My work focused on conceptualizing, designing, and implementing sustainability-focused solutions for global supply chains. I contributed to the development of several impactful offerings, including ESG insights for supply chain transparency, Supply Chain Net Zero portfolio planning and execution strategies, and responsible procurement frameworks aimed at reducing Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions. A significant part of my role involved presenting these solutions to executive audiences, helping organizations understand how sustainability initiatives could be integrated into supply chain operations in ways that delivered both environmental and business value. I also collaborated with strategic partners to develop integrated solutions and services tailored to the evolving needs of Google Cloud customers. These partnerships enabled the creation of frameworks, tools, and supporting materials designed to accelerate the adoption of more sustainable supply chain practices.

In addition to my work within Google Cloud, I served on a team at X, The Moonshot Factory to help define the strategic focus for exploring carbon sequestration as part of the organization’s broader climate innovation efforts. This work involved shaping the early strategy and framing the technical and market challenges associated with scaling carbon removal solutions. Through these experiences, I helped bridge emerging technologies with real-world applications—ensuring that innovative solutions were not only technically viable but also strategically positioned to address some of the most pressing sustainability challenges facing industry today.

X, The Moonshot Factory is an incubator for strategic business ideas that create innovative solutions which will impact the world with a positive environmental outcome. In this role, I helped conceptualize, define and create the business plan aimed at reducing the global carbon footprint. As an energy subject matter expert and lead researcher, I was instrumental in defining the direction of the project using my industry knowledge to create a comprehensive SWOT analysis and differentiated market value for a targeted solution.  I worked with the Department of Energy, several leading universities and national laboratories to lay the groundwork for an innovative approach to carbon sequestration. 

Google Cloud Professional Services delivers first class support to help organizations rapidly deploy, operate, monitor, and scale their cloud-based applications. As the Energy lead for PSO, I identified and executed strategies/solutions that connected GCP solutions to solve Energy Industry challenges.  I provided the subject matter expertise and lead customer discussions, presentations and engagements showcasing the value of Google Cloud to the customers technical needs.
This role focused on driving transformational discussions for O&G companies to diversify their portfolios to be more ESG compliant.  This key contribution was the influencing factor identified at the C-Level at several major O&G companies leading them to choose and commit to Google Cloud as their primary cloud provider. 

At Red Hat, I served as a solutions architect for middle ware products focusing on constructing solutions for the energy industry. I provided strategic direction in identifying and delivering technical solutions for enterprise customers in the energy vertical focused on containerization, edge computing and data analytics for private and/or public cloud services.

At Halliburton, I served as a product manager for geological and petrophysical software solutions for many years.  I also served as the Strategic Software Portfolio Manager to manage the success of the release of Landmark's suite of geological, geophysical and petrophysical solutions.  My visionary skills in identifying and cultivating innovative solutions while providing business justification, usage projection and capacity needs targeting portfolio gaps while addressing industry trends resulted in an increase share of market and millions of dollars of revenue. In my leading role in R&D, I created prioritized lists of new feature development, strategically targeting themes and gaps in the portfolio driven by a full market analysis. I redefined the success criteria and implemented procedures to improve the quality of Landmarks’s geoscience software products resulting in a reduction of regression defects by 55%. During this time, I also managed the release cycle and served as the lead Product Manager for Landmark’s premier petro-technical solution, Decisionspace Geosciences, and implemented improved monitoring, development and quality assurance processes, which resulted in a mitigation of risk and uncertainty and critical & timely successful release.

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