Project Manager Administrative Assistant

MOLLY DEVERS SASO

**** ****** *****, #***, ***********, CA 93311

661-***-**** *********@*****.***

EDUCATION

Columbia University Sept. 2011 – Dec. 2012

• Master of Science, Sustainability Management

University of California, Los Angeles Sept. 2006 - June 2010

• Degree: Bachelor of Arts, Political Science

• Minor: Environmental Systems and Societies

University of Granada, Spain

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Completed courses for my Political Science major (in Spanish) Sept. 2008 – Dec. 2008

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

EconEco Environmental Consulting Jan. 2013 - Present

Founder & Consultant

• Research & regulatory compliance

• Attend conferences and meetings on behalf of clients

• Energy audits and building/home weatherization’s

New York Department of Transportation Sept. 2012-Dec. 2012

SUMA Capstone Workshop Consultancy

• Under the supervision of a faculty advisor, served on a team of graduate student consultants to produce a storm

water adaptations compendium

• Identified technologies and best practices for mitigating climate change risks (my specialty is pervious pavement)

Columbia University, New York, NY July 2012-Dec. 2012

Teaching Assistant, The Science of Sustainable Water

• Host office hours to ensure students comprehend concepts/data/models of the course

• Assist in grading of homework assignments and exams

TriBeca MedSpa, New York, NY Aug. 2011-Dec. 2012

Sustainability Manager

• Waste reduction program, creation and implementation

• Created a hazardous waste management program

• Carbon footprint quantification and reduction (Also used for “green” marketing)

• Employee education on an array of applicable environmental topics

• Currently working on building weatherization and energy efficiency

Rodriguez & Associates, Bakersfield, CA June 2005-July 2011

Legal Secretary

• Legal research

• Marketing strategies & press review preparation

• Website content development

• I began working for Rodriguez and Associates while in high school, and continued to work throughout my college

summers and breaks. As the years passed, I worked my way up in the company, earning both more responsibility

and more money. Before college graduation attorney Andreesen recruited me to return for one year as a legal

secretary.

References upon request

UCLA Institute of the Environment, Los Angeles, CA Jan. 2010-June 2010

Climate Academy Coordinator

• Coordinate a two-day “crash course” to educate business leaders on the scientific facts of climate change, the

immediate affects it will have on business, the most effective means of compliance, and ways to benefit financially

from such regulations

• Worked directly with Dr. Paul Bunje

• Delegated work to the design team

• Conducted research on particulate impacts from industries on air quality

Robertson & Lum, LLC, Los Angeles, CA Sept. 2006-Nov. 2009

Executive Administrative Assistant (Promoted Internally)

• Complete/file legal documents with courts

• Client coordinator

SKILLS

• Educator:

• Able to simplify technical environmental and environmental health issues, as well as solutions

• Management:

• Sustainability Manager at a Medical Spa in which I guided and oversaw 11 others

• Elected by my colleagues as group project manager for a research project on Starbucks’ sustainability practices

• Sustainability Manager for the Chi Omega Gamma Beta fraternity at UCLA (I also created this position)

• Research:

• Currently researching the feasibility of anaerobic digesters to stimulate the economy and better the lives of locals

in Burkina Faso (Africa)

• Researched and presented the status of underground water availability and use as it pertains to farming in

California’s Central Valley for Michael Puma of NASA (2011)

• Researched and relayed potential impacts of AB-32 to different niches in the California market with Dr. Paul

Bunje, UCLA (2010)

• 9 Months of student directed research on the “Economic Affects of Environmental Policy” with Michael Lofchie

(former head of the Political Science Department, UCLA) (2009)

• Financial Modeling:

• I have drafted power purchase agreements for potential new renewable energy companies with Scott

Fisher of

NRG Energy

• Advanced financial modeling for the optimization of business decisions

• Extremely well networked

References upon request

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