Uniting engineering discipline with policy acumen, he is regarded as a leading figure in the research, advocacy, and coalition-building that energy infrastructure deployment requires. He is a co-founder of Clean Tomorrow and formerly served as director of clean energy infrastructure deployment at Clean Air Task Force, head of research at the Energy Futures Initiative, in national energy strategy and power-systems recovery at the U.S. Department of Energy, and in market design advisory for the U.S. Department of State.