Sand Cherry

Chief of Staff

• **Responsibilities**
• **Strategic Planning & Operating Cadence **
• · Drive annual and quarterly planning process, translating leadership priorities into clear initiatives, objectives, and execution plans
• - Build leadership agendas, meeting and operations cadence including preparation materials, notes, and follow-up actions
• - Coordinate and execute quarterly business reviews, strategy sessions, and offsites, including development of materials and tracking of outcomes
• - Maintain decision logs, action trackers, and ownership alignment to ensure follow-through across leadership priorities
• **Cross-Functional Execution & Program Management**
• - Drive cross-functional initiatives spanning development, engineering, operations, and commercial teams
• - Build and maintain integrated initiative trackers (milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, owners)
• - Proactively identify bottlenecks and drive resolution plans with accountable owners and timelines
• **Performance Management, Reporting & Analytics **
• - Partner with functional leaders to define and maintain KPIs, dashboards, and performance tracking tools
• - Produce weekly and monthly executive updates, business reviews, and leadership/board-ready materials
• - Conduct targeted analysis (portfolio prioritization, resource planning, scenario modeling) and translate findings into clear recommendations and decision frameworks
• **Stakeholder Alignment & Executive Communications**
• - Serve as a central liaison across teams to align priorities, timelines, and deliverables
• - Coordinate cross-functional communications, ensuring consistent messaging and timely escalation of issues
• - Represent senior leadership in meetings as needed, capturing outcomes and clear execution of next steps
• - Develop executive-level communications, presentations, and briefing materials for internal and external stakeholders
• **Governance, Risk & Decision Support **
• - Maintain decision logs, risk/issue registers, and action trackers with clear ownership and due dates
• - Ensure materials are complete, accurate, and decision-ready for leadership review
• **Organization Enablement & Operational Improvement**
• - Support organizational scaling through operating model clarity, role definition, and onboarding coordination
• - Drive process improvement initiatives, including standardization of reporting, meeting governance, and documentation practices

Procurement

• The Procurement Specialist drives procurement activities across a high-value CAPEX materials and services portfolio for a power company.
• This position is responsible for translating procurement strategy into tangible outputs, decisions, and executed contracts, while continuously identifying opportunities to improve cost, efficiency, and supplier performance.
• This role combines ownership of procurement models, sourcing execution, supplier engagement, and cross-functional coordination to ensure timely, cost-effective, and risk-managed procurement outcomes.
• Own and drive end-to-end procurement activities including RFQs/RFPs, bid evaluations, negotiations, and award execution.
• Manage procurement timelines and ensure alignment with project schedules, milestones, and delivery requirements.
• Track and maintain procurement logs, award trackers, and supplier status updates including dashboard trackers and reporting frameworks.
• Develop sourcing strategies balancing cost, schedule, quality, and risk.
• Analyze supplier markets and identify competitive and pricing benchmarks.
• Support commercial negotiations, including pricing, terms, and risk allocation.
• Continuously identify cost savings and value optimization opportunities.
• Own complex Excel-based procurement and pricing models ensuring accuracy.
• Perform detailed analysis of bids, cost structures, and supplier proposals.
• Maintain cost comparisons, cost models, and benchmarking analyses.
• Generate procurement reports, summaries, and executive-ready materials.
• Serve as a primary point of contact for suppliers.
• Facilitate cross-functional alignment with different business teams on specifications, scope, and timelines.
• Support resolution of supplier issues, delivery risks, and commercial disputes.
• Support review, and execution of contracts, purchase orders, and commercial agreements.
• Identify and manage procurement risks, including supply chain, pricing, and contract exposure.
• Identify gaps in current procurement processes and implement improvements to workflows, templates, and tools.
• Standardize RFP formats, evaluation criteria, and supplier communication approaches.

Procurement Specialist

Manager

• Own and actively drive projects from concept through FID/NTP, including building and maintaining detailed development plans, milestone schedules, and deliverable trackers
• Lead and execute feasibility studies, site screening, and early-stage configuration decisions, producing decision-ready analyses and recommendations
• Coordinate cross-functional deliverables for internal approvals and external diligence
• Develop and submit applications and manage study processes end-to-end
• Coordinate and compile technical inputs (e.g., load assumptions, one-lines, protection schemes, or equipment requirements) across internal and external teams
• Maintain interconnection trackers, timelines, and risk, escalating issues as needed
• Build and manage permitting plans, schedules, and submission packages
• Coordinate environmental and regulatory studies, ensuring timely reports and filings
• Track and manage permit conditions, approvals, and compliance obligations
• Maintain stakeholder logs and communication records for agencies and landowners
• Drive land and site control efforts, including managing leases, easements, access agreements, and key dates through execution
• Support drafting inputs, negotiation, and execution tracking of third-party agreements
• Oversee site due diligence (environmental, geotechnical, survey/title) and consolidate findings into actionable outputs
• Build and maintain integrated schedules, budget trackers, risk registers, deliverable trackers, and decision logs
• Track budget vs. actual spend, including invoice review and coordination
• Produce stage-gate deliverables, investment memos, and executive-ready reporting

Project Development Manager

• Establish and implement project controls standards, including WBS structures, cost codes, schedule frameworks, and progress measurement methodologies
• Build and maintain baseline budgets, cost estimates, and integrated schedules aligned to scope, contracting strategy, and stage-gate requirements
• Define and manage controls governance, reporting cadence, and deliverable expectations across projects including cost reports, variance analyses, and executive summaries for leadership review
• Build and manage detailed project budgets, including development, construction, and owner costs, with cash flow and contingency tracking
• Maintain forecasting models (EAC/ETC), analyze variances, and identify drivers, risks, and corrective actions
• Support and coordinate invoice tracking, accruals, and cost coding with finance and procurement teams
• Develop and maintain integrated project schedules covering development, permitting, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover
• Track progress against baseline schedules and maintain critical path analysis, float tracking, and schedule risk assessments
• Identify schedule risks and develop mitigation and acceleration plans with accountable owners
• Coordinate schedule interfaces across permitting, interconnection, procurement, and delivery milestones
• Implement and manage formal change control processes, including maintaining change logs, schedule impact analysis, cost validation and supporting approval workflows
• Quantify cost and schedule impacts of risks and opportunities and maintain risk registers and contingency models
• Consolidate project-level data into portfolio-level views (capex, schedule, milestones, risks) for leadership visibility
• Develop dashboards, reporting tools, and executive-ready materials to support investment decisions and prioritization
• Drive continuous improvement of controls tools, templates, and reporting processes

Project Controls Manager

Consultant

• Serve as a Product Owner, driving product vision, roadmap, and execution
• Lead end-to-end product delivery, from concept through implementation
• Facilitate and lead meetings with senior stakeholders, including leadership two levels up
• Translate business needs into clear product requirements and actionable deliverables
• Champion innovative ideas, confidently presenting and refining concepts in collaborative settings
• Partner with engineering, design, and business teams to ensure alignment and delivery success
• Manage priorities, timelines, and deliverables in a dynamic, fast-paced environment

Product Delivery, Emerging Technology Consultant

Analyst

• Monitor incoming tickets within the ticketing system to ensure they are accurately logged and categorized.
• Triage and route tickets to the appropriate teams based on priority, impact, and established procedures.
• Track ticket progress and follow up to ensure timely resolution and adherence to service-level expectations.
• Maintain high data quality standards within the ticketing system, including accurate fields, notes, and status updates.
• Monitor ticket queues to identify aging tickets, potential bottlenecks, or process gaps.
• Help maintain overall system integrity through consistent and accurate ticket management.
• Support adherence to operational and service delivery processes.
• Assist with basic reporting on ticket volumes, trends, resolution times, and common issues.
• Escalate issues or risks appropriately when patterns or delays are identified.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams (operations, engineering, service delivery) to support ticket resolution.
• Communicate clearly and professionally with team members regarding ticket status and next steps.

Ticketing Analyst

Data Engineer

• Responsible for the design, structure, and maintenance of data, usually organized in relational databases
• Determines end user requirements for data usage including analytics and visualization
• Ensures the accuracy and accessibility of data relevant to client’s organization or project
• Identifies and creates connections to relevant data sources from within the organization as well as third party sources including government data sources
• Work with strong practical knowledge of Redshift SQL, Python, and DBT.
• Assists in defining how data will be stored, consumed, integrated and managed by different data entities
• Assesses existing data architecture and data management processes to determine gaps and means of optimization
• Creates vision and documents resource requirements for organizational structure to support all phases of client data initiatives
• Defines supplemental data collection methods including manual survey processes as necessary
• Defines user access models for internal and public models and techniques to allow user inquiry and presentation of quantitative and visual findings from data analytics
• Leverages strong skills in data modeling and logic
• Creates effective quality and data integrity standards and processes

• Develop, maintain, and execute comprehensive UAT test plans, test scenarios, and test cases aligned with business and operational requirements.
• Define and validate success criteria to ensure solutions meet business, customer, and operational expectations.
• Lead integrated operational testing, ensuring end-to-end workflows perform as designed across systems and platforms.
• Perform hands-on testing and validation as needed, including regression, functional, and integration testing.
• Identify, log, prioritize, and track defects throughout the testing lifecycle.
• Partner with development teams to manage defect triage, resolution, and retesting.
• Ensure timely closure of issues and validate fixes meet acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate UAT efforts across three concurrent development teams, ensuring testing activities are aligned and dependencies are managed.
• Collaborate with product owners, business stakeholders, developers, and operations teams to support successful releases.
• Act as a key liaison between business and technical teams during testing cycles.
• Produce clear, concise executive-level readouts on UAT status, overall quality, risks, and readiness for release.
• Communicate testing progress, blockers, and mitigation strategies to leadership and stakeholders.
• Provide data-driven insights and recommendations to support go/no-go decisions.

Senior User Acceptance Testing Analyst

• Responsible for the design, structure, and maintenance of data
• Determines end user requirements for data usage including analytics and visualization
• Ensures the accuracy and accessibility of data relevant to client’s organization or project
• Identifies and creates connections to relevant data sources
• Work with strong practical knowledge of Redshift SQL, Python, and DBT
• Assesses existing data architecture and data management processes
• Creates vision and documents resource requirements for client data initiatives
• Defines supplemental data collection methods
• Defines user access models for internal and public models
• Creates effective quality and data integrity standards and processes