Kinetic Energy Analyst

Senior Kinetic Energy Analyst — Zephyr Wind Systems

Boulder, CO | July 2023 – Present

• Formulated 3-dimensional computational fluid flow simulations for turbine rotor profiles using OpenFOAM, resulting in a 14% improvement in kinetic energy extraction metrics.
• Developed automated Python scripts to ingest and filter telemetry datasets from 150 SCADA sensors, reducing data processing overhead by 26% and increasing data cleanliness.
• Coordinated rotor wake interference studies for 3 proposed utility-scale wind farms, identifying optimal turbine placements to mitigate annual energy loss by 11%.
• Led the performance assessment of a 45-megawatt hydrokinetic river turbine deployment, detecting 5 flow anomalies and validating the mechanical power conversion curves.

Kinetic Energy Analyst — Cascade Hydro-Kinetic Systems

Portland, OR | June 2021 – June 2023

• Configured MATLAB and Simulink models to evaluate fluid-structure interactions on 8 tidal turbine blade designs, raising simulated power coefficients by 18%.
• Conducted field assessment campaigns at 4 coastal energy resource sites, installing telemetry instrumentation that verified kinetic energy flux estimates within 4%.
• Authored technical reports on turbine performance under turbulent flow conditions, presenting findings that guided design revisions for 2 pilot-stage installations.
• Maintained numerical grid databases for hydro-kinetic flow modeling across 15 water channels, accelerating team simulation setup times by 22% using new file structures.

Fluid Flow, Wind Resource Assessment, Hydrokinetics, MATLAB, Simulink, Python, OpenFOAM, CFD Simulation, SCADA Systems, Telemetry Data, Wake Loss Modeling, Turbine Performance, Turbine Rotor Design, Mechanical Engineering, Power Generation, Renewable Energy

Offshore Wind Resource Assessment

Role: Lead Fluid Flow Modeler

Tools: WAsP, OpenFOAM, Python, AWS

Conducted turbine placement optimization across a 200-square-kilometer offshore lease area, reducing predicted array wake loss from 9.4% to 7.1%.

Tidal Stream Turbine Optimization

Role: Telemetry Data Architect

Tools: MATLAB, Simulink, Python, Modbus

Designed real-time flow monitoring tools for a 1.2-megawatt tidal stream generator, enabling flow alignment within 3 degrees and increasing annual yield by 8%.

• Certified Energy Manager (CEM) (2023)
• Professional Engineer (PE) – Mechanical Engineering (2025)

• Professional Affiliations: Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) since 2021.
• Technical Presentations: Presented research on hydrokinetic wake modeling at 2 national conferences.
• Availability: Ready to start with 2 weeks notice.