SUSTAINABILITY SKILLS
Knowledge of:
- Adaptive Resource Management in natural resource conservation
- Land use planning strategies for climate change mitigation and adaptation, for biodiversity conservation, and for low carbon farming.
- Geospatial data analyses, mapping, and application of geospatial intelligence in resource management.
- Management of energy, food, water, and waste to lower carbon and ecological footprint
- Public policy and institutional planning for sustainable development and architecture to address energy efficiency, urban sprawl, and food deserts
- Programs and policies to reduce energy and fuel consumption, and to improve energy efficiency
- Geodesign and use of Geospatial mapping for landuse, urban planning, and natural resource conservation
- Environmental justice in climate change policies.
Experienced in:
- Natural areas conservation, restoration, and management.
- Pursuing a sustainable, low-carbon footprint lifestyle
- Promoting biodiversity (I created a National Wildlife Federation-certified wildlife habitat on my property)
KNOWLEDGE OF ENERGY
- Federal laws and policies related to energy and climate change
- Energy economics related to supply-side and demand-side management, and price equilibrium
- Resource adequacy and the Energy Trilemma: reliability/security, sustainability, and affordability
- Wholesale electric markets and the basic architecture of the North American electric grid
- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission orders, ISOs, RTOs, Forward Capacity Markets
- Basic elements of a utility balance sheet - utility’s operating expenses, cost of capital, used and useful, prudent investments, cost-of-service, return on equity, utility rate base
- Subsidies - Investor Owned Utility System Benefits Charge, property-assessed clean energy programs, Feed-In Tariffs, Public Benefits Funds for renewables & efficiency
- Renewable energy sources - concentrated solar, photovoltaic solar, wind, biofuels
- Efficacy of policy tools - a utility’s energy portfolio, energy efficiency, smart grid, state Renewable Portfolio Standards, (un)bundled Renewable Energy Credits, energy savings and negawatt generation
- Decentralized distributed generation, non-utility merchant generation, cogeneration, microgrid, generation and transmission co-ops
- Mitigating climate change - carbon tax and carbon cap & trade; Northeastern Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and California’s Assembly Bill 32
RESEARCH AND ANALYTICAL SKILLS
Experienced in:
- Identifying, assessing, and organizing scientific, legal, and policy resources to address environmental issues
- Performing legal, policy, and scientific analysis, scientific data interpretation, research, advocacy and education to manage environmental impacts and facilitate regulatory compliance.
- Conducting Cost-Benefit Analyses, Risk Assessment, applying the Precautionary Principle, and exercising Due Diligence as standard procedures in evaluating projects to ensure their success.
- Evaluating the applicability of environmental laws (such as the CAA, CWA, NEPA, CERCLA, RCRA, etc.) in a given project.
- Botany: Plant identification, taxonomy, growth requirements and wildlife and medicinal values of native plants, control strategies for invasive plants in various ecosystems
- Laboratory techniques in Biochemistry, Structural Biology, Molecular Biology, and Microbiology
COMPUTER SKILLS
Experienced in:
- Windows, Linux and Apple operating systems
- Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Project
- Adobe Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign; Visio
- Writing executable programs/scripts in Unix
- Crystallography-related software including data processing, phasing, model-building software; molecular graphics programs; data mining and bioinformatics tools.
- Web design & publishing
- ArcGIS mapping software
- DAYCENT greenhouse gas emissions simulation
MANAGEMENT SKILLS
Experienced in:
- Teaching, training, supervising and mentoring students
- Managing personnel, time, and budget resources
- Conflict resolution
WRITING & PRESENTATION SKILLS
Expertise in:
- Writing grants for research and fundraising
- Developing legislation and public policy advisory memos, fact sheets, comment letters, case briefs, op-ed columns, and blog posts
- Creating communication and advocacy campaigns
- Designing school curricula
- Creating and making professional presentations
LANGUAGE SKILLS
- Native fluency in English, Hindi & Telugu; Ability to read and write French (Advanced Diploma in French, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India).
OTHER INTERESTS
- Applying science to everyday living
- Pursuing a sustainable, low-carbon footprint lifestyle
- Promoting biodiversity
- Hiking in the mountains
- Wildlife Photography