Jon C. Russell

acqydr@r.postjobfree.com 860-***-**** **52 South Colt Drive Gilbert, AZ 85296

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

ENVIRONMENTAL AND SUSTAINABILITY PROFESSIONAL driving strategic planning to identify and minimize environmental impacts, create measurable financial value and enhance core business competitiveness. Experience with creating functional and achievable project objectives, building the project requirements, and managing the triple constraints of scope, time and budget. Offering an exceptional educational background and proven abilities in developing and implementing strategic plans that complement business policies through early compliance credits, cost reductions and regulatory advocacy to ensure company growth.

Significant Qualifications:

Spearheaded $5 million environmental grant for the development of an alternative waste tires to energy project; organized project development by recruiting product manufacturers, contract engineers, and specialists.

Recognized as Climate and Energy industry expert and high-profile company spokesperson; recruited to serve on Connecticut Climate Action Stakeholder Group and Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

Adept at identifying and analyzing risks and opportunities, developing strategies to capture the associated value, and implementing those strategies with good business processes and creating measurable financial value, maximizing opportunities and delivering results.

Excels in project management and logistics, tracking results, setting critical milestones and meeting deadlines with quality results through time management and attention to detail.

Professional Experience

Owner/President

Elements of Fitness 2013 – 2014

Fitness studio specializing in Functional Movement methodologies to maximize client gains by identifying clients’ muscular/skeletal imbalances. Managed budgets, payroll, finances, and daily operations of the facility.

Adjunct Professor

Eastern Connecticut State University/Salter College 2010 – Present

Teach undergraduate courses including climate change, environmental science and sustainable energy. Provide student advisory services and collaborate with colleagues in curriculum development of special projects/seminars, plan lectures, administer examinations and incorporate online system for class assignments and lecture notes. Received best new instructor at Salter College in 2012.

Managing Partner

Recycled Materials Recovery Technologies, LLC 2009 – 2010

RMR was a start-up corporation for the commercialization of new pyrolytic technology for recovery of petroleum distillates, volatile gases, paraffin wax, activated charcoal and other products as bulk commodities from the recycling of tires, plastics and other organic wastes.

Managed multiple strategic directions of the Corporation, including regulatory compliance, project development, compliance with regulatory requirements and building relationships with local governments, Public Utility Commissions, legislative staffs, industry organizations and nongovernmental agencies.

Spearheaded $5 million grant development and obtained local support for construction of an alternative energy project; orchestrated team development by recruiting product manufacturers, contract engineers, and specialists.

Developed timetables, milestones, ensured regulatory compliance and administered the development of an $8 million capital cost building project including the oversight of budgeting, bid process and contractors.

Presented site development, production and facility plans to local and state officials and organizations.

Cultivated network of local support for the alternative energy project.

Vice President – Legal and Operations

Neuwing Energy Ventures, LLC, New York, NY 2007 – 2009

Neuwing Energy was a start-up company that traded renewable energy credits, energy efficiency credits and quantifies energy efficiency reductions and carbon reductions. Company advocated for state energy efficiency programs using market-based mechanisms. Specializing in measurement and verification plans for data center reductions and combined heat and power.

Corporate expert on renewable and alternative energy regulations and climate change developments, identify proposed regulation and develop corporate strategy.

Analyzed, summarized and advised partners/executive management on all state, federal and international GHG, energy efficiency and renewable energy portfolios regulations.

Identified $1 million in new key customer accounts and new markets for energy efficiency credits.

Created first-of-its-kind methodologies for quantifying energy efficiency reductions within data centers, resulting in marketable energy efficiency and carbon credits.

Developed auditing, monitoring and verification (M&V) methodologies and awarded first Connecticut energy efficiency credits granted to an independent energy conservation project with an annual value of $100,000.

Collaborated with state energy departments and NGO’s to develop new energy efficiency programs.

Environmental Manager / Compliance Manager / Strategy Manager

Northeast Utilities Service Company, Berlin, CT 1998 – 2007

Northeast Utilities, a Fortune 500 energy company, operates New England’s largest energy delivery system serving more than 2 million electricity and natural gas customers in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

Manage regulatory compliance, waste management and training analysts ensuring compliance with existing and new regulatory requirements. Administrative responsibilities for $1 million budget and 10 staff positions. Identify proposed regulation and develop corporate strategy and building extensive relationships with Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, Public Utility and Legislative staffs, lobbyists, industry organizations, nongovernmental agencies and policy makers. Identify proposed regulation and initiated lobbying effort with regional utilities to significantly reduce the Company’s reporting requirements. Promoted from senior analyst, through team leader, supervisor (auditing) to manager.

Highly-effective leadership, communication and mentoring skills, which led to 100% employee retention.

Successfully drafted legislation that allowed for corporate hydroelectric assets to be qualified as renewable energy resources resulting in over $100,000 per year in revenue.

Savings of over $200,000 annually, through identification of proposed regulation and lobbying efforts.

Served as highly-successful company spokesperson, providing testimony to agency and legislative committees and conference speaker on Cap and Trade, GHG reductions and environmental compliance.

Oversight of hazardous waste management and vendors to ensure compliance, reduce waste and attain cost savings.

Invited to speak at numerous presentations and seminars on cap and trade, greenhouse gas reductions and environmental compliance for electric utilities.

Education

VERMONT LAW SCHOOL, SOUTH ROYALTON, VT 1993

Juris Doctor

Master of Study in Environmental Law and Policy, cum laude

UNION COLLEGE, SCHENECTADY, NY 1986

Bachelor of Science, Chemistry

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