One Decade Out: Navigating Energy Careers since IES

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Join Lindsay as she covers her career journey from graduation to today - it includes a couple cross country moves, betting on a company acquisition, deploying leading technology, trying her hand at management before settling into her process improvement niche. Come chat with this alum about how WWU/IES helped prep her for corporate life, what’s it’s like to work in operations, and more.

The speaker will be on Zoom and will not be in person. This presentation will not be recorded.

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Speaker Name

Lindsay Parpart

Speaker Photo

A young woman with blonde hair and a black shirt smiles at the camera, with a blurred green background of trees.

Speaker Bio

Lindsay graduated from WWU in 2015 with a BA in environmental studies / economics and a minor in Energy Studies. She spent the formative years of her career at Tesla managing utility solar and storage interconnection for residential customers, then leading Operations procedure and improvement programs for the NAM Charging team. She currently supports process improvement initiatives for CBRE @ Microsoft CO+I. While not currently in the energy industry, Lindsay still cares deeply about grid decarbonization.

Date

Zoom
https://foundation.wwu.edu/event/one-decade-out-navigating-energy-careers-ies