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Kristen is part of Veregy’s Federal team, which together has secured the company’s first Federal ESPC projects with NOAA Fisheries. As the projects move into the implementation phase, Kristen continues to provide support through project documentation and contract-required deliverables. Prior to Veregy, Kristen has supported Federal ESPC projects, including:

Corpus Christi Army Depot ($93M): A multi-phased, two-task order project where HVAC equipment was upgraded with new units that were custom-designed to fit inside existing mechanical rooms, resulting in reduced degradation from exposure to salt air. All outages were scheduled for weekends to allow the building to remain occupied during construction. Provided production and manufacturing improvements, including:

• Adding a PLC-based SCADA system to oven/autoclave controls results in energy savings, production improvements, extended heating element life, and reduced part reprocessing.
• Decentralizing the compressed air system eliminates the single point of failure, increases system redundancy, and provides consistent air to workspaces.
• Upgrading the water treatment system and rerouting drainage, thus reducing sanitary sewer and industrial wastewater charges, and increasing permeate water quality.

Joint System Manufacturing Center-Lima ($198M): This multi-phased project installed a new EMCS where none existed and updated the existing local system with equipment-level controllers and tied into the new EMS, resulting in Plant-wide controls across 95% of JSMC, decreasing HVAC runtime, increasing equipment life, reducing maintenance costs, & providing better comfort control, eliminating mandatory work stoppages due to temperature. The project also designed and implemented upgrades to match the instantaneous compressed air production with near-real-time manufacturing requirements, thereby reducing the load on the central compressed air plant by 50%. Replaced three existing coal-fired steam boilers with two NG-fired boilers with propane back-up and feed water economizers—a complete fuel swap. Also installed a propane vaporization system to ensure all boilers can use NG or propane in an emergency, thereby increasing JSMC’s energy security by meeting peak heat and steam demand with either fuel. This system was designed to fuel JSMC’s boilers for up to 3 days in the event of an emergency. These upgrades reduced JSMC air emissions by eliminating coal combustion.

For a Fortune 500 company, Kristen served as the primary point of contact and author of all federal sales and marketing materials, including proposals, management approaches, project descriptions, resumes, brochures, and newsletters. Developed marketing strategy, approach, and schedule for federal marketing activities. Coordinated the company’s participation in national Air Force Industry conferences, including writing brochures and coordinating meetings, receptions, speakers, and travel. Maintained operating units’ quarterly sales progress, managed sales budget, and presented it to management. Assisted the VP of Federal Sales on all federal sales/marketing opportunities including managing multi-million dollar DoD and DOE proposals. Kristen worked to secure both IDIQ contracts and task order proposals, totaling over $500M in environmental projects. Prior to moving into proposals and sales, Kristen worked as an environmental technician collecting soil and groundwater samples, analyzing laboratory data, and documenting results at various Navy Bases as part of the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC).