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Irish/Canadian, 26, experienced energy sector professional looking to join a cleantech operating company, investment firm, or consulting group in the immediate future
Headline:
Investor
Industries:
Cleantech
Skills:
Business, Writing
Location:
San Francisco
Visas:
US, Canada, EU
Interested in:
Consulting opportunities, Employment opportunities, Helping friends, Joining a startup, Meeting new people, Offering Expertise, Professional opportunities
Schools:
Georgetown University, University of Western Ontario
WORK EXPERIENCE
Employer:
World Bank
Position:
ETC
Time period:
December 2008 - Present
Description:
Working with the World Bank's Oil, Gas and Mining Policy and Operations group. Projects range from increasing governance/transparency in low income/resource-rich issues, to deployment and/or investment in energy projects across the Bank's member countries.
Employer:
Cleantech Group – San Francisco
Position:
Senior Research Analyst
Time period:
July 2008 - October 2008
Description:
• Utilizing experience in the conventional energy sector to drive analysis of the technical, political and commercial challenges facing the cleantech/renewable energy sector
• Delivered to a network of over 400 investment firms, enterprises, and economic development agencies
• Specific areas of research to date have included the concentrated solar thermal sector and novel strategies for bridging the gap between VC funding and project financing for cleantech entrepreneurs
Employer:
PFC Energy - Washington DC
Position:
Analyst- National Oil Company Service
Time period:
December 2005 - November 2007
Description:
• Joined PFC as part of the core three person team challenged with defining and building this new, and now highly successful, consulting/subscription service from the ground up
• Created rigorous financial, political/regulatory, and physical asset analysis of the often-opaque national oil companies of Iran, Venezuela, Russia, Algeria, Mexico, Nigeria, Brazil and Qatar
• Regularly briefed senior personnel of clients, government agencies, industry conferences, and the press
• Drove efforts to install a wiki-based KM system to help fully capture the firm’s dispersed intellectual capital
Employer:
Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) - Washington DC
Position:
Nuclear Scholar
Time period:
December 2004 - November 2006
Description:
• Contributed to a year-long series of conferences on nuclear energy and proliferation
Employer:
The Albright Group - Washington DC
Position:
Research Assistant
Time period:
December 2004 - November 2005
Description:
• Reported to former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former EPA Administrator Carol Browner on projects which included client-side social and environmental liabilities and risks, the Clinton Global Initiative, hedge/pension fund strategy and behavior, and Chinese energy/environment
• Provided pre-launch analytical support to the co-located Albright Capital Management hedge fund
Employer:
Butera & Andrews Law Offices - Washington DC
Position:
Research Internship
Time period:
December 2003 - November 2005
Description:
• Supported three senior partners through primary and secondary research on projects including Chinese international energy issues, the UN Oil-for-Food program (and resulting scandal), and nuclear energy
Employer:
Canadian Embassy - Washington DC
Position:
Internship
Time period:
December 2002 - November 2003
Description:
• Produced 53 US-Canada state trade reports for publication to consulates and relevant industry groups
Employer:
Nexen Petroleum - Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Position:
Summer Associate
Time period:
December 1999 - November 2002
Description:
• Responsible for tasks including operation of multi-million dollar daily payments system, modeling and analysis of field/production data, and presentation to senior management of field operations strategies
EDUCATION
University:
Georgetown University
Time period:
2003 - 2005
Degree:
Security Studies - International Security Concentration, MA
University:
University of Western Ontario
Time period:
1999 - 2004
Degree:
Honours Business Administration, BA
INFORMATION
Hobbies:
International travel/opportunities; having spent time in over forty different countries, travelling throughout North/Sub-Saharan Africa, and living in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia
Entrepeneur with 13+ years of strategic and tactical consulting experience in the financial services, start-up and technology industries (BPM, Business Intelligence, KPI's,, Vendor Management, etc) .
