Hard and Soft Skills

 

i.e. What We Can Help With

  • Environmental footprinting, and systems thinking – triple bottom line assessment (financial, social, environmental). Lifecycle analysis (cradle to cradle), and sustainable supply chain planning. Bridging technical and business perspectives.
  • CleanTech (wastewater-to-energy, waste-to-value, fermentation and vermicomposting), renewables (solar mainly, some microhydro, biogas), regenerative agriculture (carbon farming, holistic planned grazing, 3D ocean culture, permaculture, agroforestry, silvopasture, no-till, crop rotation, cover crops, companion planting, precision agriculture, remote sensing, keyline design, watershed management, rainwater harvesting, aquifer recharge etc. etc.)
  • Sustainable Housing (LEED GA, Living Building Challenge, strawbale, super adobe, cob, monolithic domes, tiny houses, Compressed Earth Blocks, green roofs, living machine)
  • Competent builder, welder, and fixer. Novice beekeeper, horticulturalist, and landscape designer. Skilled skier, tennis player, and rock climber.

 

 

Business/Financial: Strategic and logistics planning; Problem solving; Business pitching and public speaking; Equity trading and analysis (I’ve had my personal money in the market since I was about 12 years old and been actively managing it since I was 19). Business planning, lean startup, bootstrapping. My company Corona Enterprises, LLC has been profitable since Jan. 2014.

Fabrication: Amateur MIG, TIG, stick, and oxy-acetylene welder (also used oxy-propone and plasma torch for cutting) (~50 hours total); Basic metal shop experience (~50 hours); Safety and Basic Use of Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) plasma torch (4 hours), metal lathe (3 hours) and 3D printer (3 hours), carpentry and construction (400 hours), CNC router (60 hours). Did electrical, plumbing, siding, roofing, and finish work on my tiny house on wheels

Computer: Proficient in all major MS Office applications (Word, Excel, Powerpoint); Developing CAD skills (have ~80 hours with Google Sketchup, FreeCAD, and AutoDesk Inventor); 1 Semester GIS experience using ArcGIS 10; Familiar with CorelDRAW, and CADèCAM/CNC

Emergency/Medical: Received Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training covering disaster preparedness, fire safety and utility controls, disaster medical operations and triage, light search and rescue operations, disaster psychology, team organization, terrorism etc. (21 hours class time);Participated in Triangle Krav Maga’s 3-day Active Shooter workshop and trained for 12 hours in how to deal with a mass shooting scenario when a firearm is not available.

Fitness/Sports: ~4.0 tennis player; competent rock climber (~5.10); some experience following trad and sport. Excellent skier (started when I was 2); have experience skiing in the backcountry; PADI certified Scuba diver (did my open water dives in the Cayman Islands). I golf about 4x my age, but I can play.

Research and Literature: Over the past few years I have amassed a large digital collection of books, journal articles, and news articles on topics ranging from agriculture to medicine to energy. Tens of thousands of pages and counting of research and literature