Project
Management

2002-2004, CSU STEM Center

• Coordinated a professional development retreat for award-winning math teachers with Texas Instruments (TI) through CSU

• Lodging, food, and meeting spaces required high-stakes agreements for 5-star lodging

Please see STEM Center Conference

2005-2006 San Antonio Abad, El Salvador

Water supply project for a rural community just outside the capital of San Salvador

See EWB Senior Design Project

2006-2008, Bamako, Mali

• Potable Water Project for community near Bamako, Mali

The goal of this project was to drill a new well in the valley, and then pump the water 1000 feet up and one mile away, to a village of 500 residents atop a mesa. This project failed because of a cultural oversight. The Peace Corps volunteer who brought this project to EWB assumed that the whole village would be on board with the project, as did the Project Manager who initially developed the project. After the assessment trip where 10 of us measured distances and water quantities, the women of the village said they refused to allow the system to be built because that meant their peaceful time of day walking the one mile to the well would be taken away. The village elders could not argue with the women, even when we asked if their girls of the future would be denied education because of their fate of duty to the community. A desert community in Africa had several variances in communication that we did not foresee.

2006-2008 La Lima, Honduras

• Multiple (15+) water supply, sanitation, and potable water projects near La Lima, Honduras

In the fall of 2006, my team was invited to La Lima, Honduras to assess a sanitation project. Since Hurricane Mitch in 1998, and subsequent climate change, plantation companies had been moving out of Honduras, leaving many jobless and without the money to improve their infrastructure. The mayor hosted out team and then surprised us with 17 other projects in the area that needed attention: several water runoff issues, school repair, church reconstruction, multiple sanitation projects, and three bridges. I continued to assist with our sanitation project and built designs for a tilapia farm, which was a growing solution at the time, and submitted the other 17 projects as potentials for which other EWB chapters could apply and manage.

2006-2008, EWB-USA

• Assisted with over 250 chapters in getting projects approved through national office logistics and engineering requirements

  • • Scheduled and facilitated meetings

    • Coordinated engineering expertise

    • Screened projects for engineering design compliance

    • Pushed projects through pipeline of requirements for assessments, design, construction, and evaluation

    • Collaborated with PEs and attorneys on evolving design and legal concepts

2012, Middle School Science Fair 

Bancroft School

2016, Cleanup and trail restoration

Willows Campground and Perception Park

2017, Music performance and activity facilitation

The Auberge at North Ogden

2018, Career Day and tour

University of Utah