As a rare moment, (here comes a soliloquy) I'll share a career update.
After many years and many companies, diligently riding the solar coaster and strategizing where I'd like to be in the industry, I found myself on the "compliance" side of an unregulated business. I started out wanting to throw all my energy behind the clean energy transition and quickly found myself advocating for self-imposed regulations on solar sales teams.
As we move closer to mainstream adoption, more bad actors got involved. But there is always a silver lining and the solar industry will teach you to REALLY LOOK for it.
I'm extremely proud of the work we did at ADT Solar, props to the team: Melyssa Wilkinson, Dylan Lemke, Matthew Bass - CPM, CSM, and all the rest of the team.
I also took my first role in distribution, digging into more compliance and legal needs of solar distributors. Learned a ton, many thanks to the finance team and City Electric Supply legal dept.
While navigating tariffs, supply chain, and CBP regulations (um, yay??), I started a conversation with Malcolm Proudfit at Good Energy Solutions. I asked ALL the questions that 10+ years of experience had given me and the answers were...better than good, they were great!
Its an interesting place to be back in a regional market, working with a down to earth team, but its also a 'sky's the limit' situation with a ton of great work on the horizon.
If you made it this far, I'm impressed 👏 . One of the key things I've learned is that regardless of who's in office, or market dynamics:
We won't stop going solar and using cleaner energy.
-end soliloquy.
