Experience

Carbon Project Development Expert (2022–2025), then Director (2025–2026)

• First and sole carbon hire at a biochar carbon-removal startup; built the carbon function end to end.
• Ran the full project lifecycle for customers — methodology selection, design, monitoring, and verification readiness — across Puro.earth, Verra VCS, CAR, and Isometric.
• Led the product team below the CEO; owned roadmap and shipped releases for the feasibility and MRV platform.
• Authored SOPs, monitoring-plan templates, and compliance frameworks; trained team members and customers on methodology interpretation.
• Performed cross-standard methodology analysis to inform which registries and methodologies to pursue.

Livestock enteric-methane reduction startup (dairy and beef)

• Stood up the carbon program from scratch — both the VCM project track and the customer-facing strategy work.
• Wrote the company's first PDD (VCS VM0041) and listed its first project on the Verra registry.
• Designed and ran on-farm monitoring at a supplier dairy: built the data-collection framework, trained farm staff, and validated incoming data against the methodology.
• Advised corporate sustainability teams at major food and dairy brands on fitting the reductions into their Scope 3 strategy.

Technical Analyst (2017–2020), then Manager (2020–2021)

• Developed and managed agricultural and energy offset projects as proponent of record across ACR, CAR, and the Alberta Emission Offset System.
• Carried a project portfolio through 10 successful verifications in 2019–2020; managed a team of three analysts.
• Ran a USDA-NRCS nitrogen-management pilot end to end — grower outreach through credit issuance.
• Led the Ducks Unlimited Prairie Pothole avoided-conversion PDD (ACR) through to credit issuance, including a 5-year DayCent modeling effort.
• Led due diligence and go/no-go recommendations on new project opportunities; built standardized processes for company growth.

• Authored the first draft of CAR's Canadian Grassland Protocol, coordinating with stakeholders and working groups.
• Authored a carbon insetting (Scope 3) framework for an agricultural supply-chain project and designed its soil-carbon sampling plans.
• Conducted comparative analyses of agricultural soil-carbon methodologies across VCS and CAR.
• Adapted offset protocols for Ontario and Quebec across conservation cropping, nitrous oxide, livestock, and grasslands.

Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory · Dr. Stephen Ogle

• Modeled soil carbon stock change with DayCent and the simplified CENTURY model; wrote R scripts for model runs and Monte Carlo uncertainty analysis.
• Built a global carbon-stock model with associated uncertainty parameters over a 10-year period.
• Contributed to national GHG inventory methods, including USDA soil N₂O estimation.

• Studied forest soil CO₂ efflux response to climate change at an AmeriFlux site.
• Operated infrared gas analyzers and dynamic chamber systems; performed QA/QC and time-series analysis on flux-tower datasets.

• Mapped and researched candidate sites for utility-scale solar using BLM data.
• Supported contractors writing and editing Environmental Impact Statements; maintained a land-portfolio database.