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Work Experience
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Renewable Energy Development Associate @ Vineyard Power

October 2021-

  • Coordinated, analyzed, and reported energy efficiency program data.

  • Participated in development activities for offshore wind and solar projects.

  • Conducted interviews and outreach to the community.

Business Development Intern @ Vineyard Power

June 2021 - September 2021

  • Coordinated, analyzed, and reported energy efficiency program data.

  • Participated in development activities for offshore wind and solar projects.

  • Conducted interviews and outreach to the community.

Founder @ Swell Affair

May 2021-

Built a surf-lifestyle brand in collaboration with artist, Gabrielle Stratmann. Sold at weekly pop-up events and festivals on Martha's Vineyard. Managed a wholesale account with a local business.

  • Designed, sourced, and produced a full Summer collection.

  • Developed a full brand ethos and visual identity.

  • Designed brand collateral.

Engineering Psychologist Intern @ U.S. DOT Volpe National Transportation Systems Center

February 2020 - May 2021

  • Conducted a literature review of safety leadership training

  • Conducted a technical review of automotive head-up displays (HUDs)

  • Worked on a project team conducting an analysis of runway incursion data at all national airports for the FAA

    • Coordinated data entry, document control, data coding, and cross tabulation analyses.

  • Assisted with the logistics and running subjects in an automotive simulator.

    • The studies investigated the impact of automated vehicle features on human perception and attention.

    • Tasks included: Setting up eye-tracking devices, managing and calibrating the simulator, troubleshooting, and handling test subjects.

  • Assisted with the qualitative data scoring of eye tracker data for automated driving studies.

Marketing Consultant @ Barbour Stockwell

January 2020 - May 2020

Startup Analyst @ Masschallenge Boston

October 2019 - January 2020

  • Created a strategic marketing plan with actionable items to increase sales.

  • Collected a compendium of EV Motor manufacturers and identified strategic contacts.

  • Distilled best practices for customer discovery and acquisition.

  • Planned and created a Startup Life Cycle Guide, a roadmap for startups with relevant services and checkpoints that entrepreneurs can reference as they develop as a company. This was accomplished by leveraging MassChallenge, alumni, startup services, and data to devise a toolkit for founders starting new ventures or growing existing ones.

  • Organized a demo day with several startups for a multi-billion-dollar hardware company, providing both sides opportunities for strategic partnerships and new sources of revenue.

  • Research and Development of pipelines for Advanced Materials, Robotics, Greentech, Bluetech, Cybersecurity, and Artificial Intelligence startups.

  • Developed a strong industry knowledge of MassChallenge current & alumni startups to determine their applicability to partner interest areas/industries.

  • Event support and stakeholder relations.

Engineering Psychologist Intern @ U.S. DOT Volpe National Transportation Systems Center

May 2019 - September 2019

  • Assisted with a country-wide baseline study of transit safety policy, with on-site visits to multiple states. Responsibilities included:

    • Assisting with project planning.

    • Co-facilitation, note-taking, and planning of focus groups/interviews.

    • Creating a coding scheme and plan for a large set of transcripts.

    • Analyzing qualitative interview data (thematic coding) in MaxQDA.

    • Sourcing transcription services.

  • Assisted with locomotive simulator data collection, including organizing and updating lab materials; setting up equipment; running subjects; managing experiment paperwork; assisting with program visibility; preparing data for analysis; troubleshooting, and other program support tasks as needed.

Branding Strategist, Board Member @ UNIFY

January 2018 - January 2019

  • Created full branding package/guidelines

  • UNIfy is the first student-run organization focused on bridging different entrepreneurship programs from colleges and universities in the Boston area and is centered around three pillars: connect, educate, and ignite. Through targeted and diverse programming, UNIfy seeks to bring together and serve a wide variety of entrepreneurial-minded students across the city.

Partnerships/Startup Analyst @ Masschallenge Boston

January 2018 - September 2018

  • Sourced and vetted 136 different early-stage startups according to 12 fortune-500 sponsors. Assisted startups through the application process. 5 of my sourced startups entered our 128-startup cohort.

• Researched and generated leads across all industries for potential partner/sponsor acquisition.
• Refined and developed MassChallenge’s sourcing and data synthesis processes; Taught new interns data synthesis/research methods.
• Researched and drove channels in venture capital firms, top universities, and accelerators to source applicants.
• Developed a strong industry knowledge of MassChallenge current & alumni startups to determine their applicability to partner interest areas/industries.
• Assisted the Events Manager with on-site support.

Freelance Graphic Designer

2015 - Present

  • Designed and consulted on graphic branding a variety of products including children's toys, custom furniture, apparel, and websites.

  • See Portfolio for more

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