Welcome to Brazen Careerist!

About Me

CSBA (Certified Sustainable Building Advisor) and Civil Engineer EIT ready to dive into projects and use my engineering experience to add value. Identified energy efficient lighting retrofits to generate $47,000 in annual savings for Illinois EPA project.

Why me? Sustainability experience. Skilled communicator. Passion for sustainable stormwater solutions. Engineering skills.

Work History

• Black & Veatch
• Civil Engineer I
• Febuary 2007 to November 2008

• • Built and calibrated hydraulic computer models featuring ecoroof, rain garden, and bioretention systems based on extensive research of Low Impact Development (LID).
  • Data analysis. Technical writing. Client interaction.

• Guardian West (Flex-N-Gate)
• Illinois EPA Pollution Prevention & Energy Efficiency Internship
• May 2006 to August 2006

• • Identified 3 areas of inefficient energy and resource utilization for annual savings of $73,600.
  • Recommended 7 energy efficient lighting changes to generate $47,000 in annual savings.
  • Proposed a steam leak monitoring plan to take advantage of $17,000 in potential savings.
  • Estimated an annual savings of $9,600 from repairing 10 leaks in the compressed air system.
  • Researched an efficient and environmentally-friendly alternative to the factory’s pretreatment process.

Education

• University of Washington
• Certificate, Low Impact Development
• 2009 - 2010

• Sustainable Building Advisor Institute (SBAi)
• Certificate, Sustainable Building Advisor
• 2009 - 2010

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• BS, Civil Engineering - Hydrology/Hydraulics, Civil Engineering - Water/Wastewater, Civil Engineering - Geotechnical Engineering
• 2005 - 2007

• Related coursework:
  Sustainable Urban Engineering. Hydrology and Hydraulics. Sustainable Buildings (LEED). Water Quality Engineering. Geotechnical Engineering. Transportation Engineering.

  Collaborative Project:
  • Brownfield Site Redevelopment for City of Chicago, IL and Illinois EPA. Designed stormwater runoff controls that included ecoroof, infiltration trench, and detention pond. Analyzed lifetime costs and water savings of water reuse system with membrane bioreactor (MBR). Developed energy system that incorporates geothermal, solar thermal, and photovoltaic sources of energy.