Where practice yields results…
My work has always been guided by a focus on real-world impact. The experiences below represent more than a collection of accomplishments—they reflect the problems I've helped solve, the people I've worked alongside, the outcomes we've created together, and the kind of value I aspire to continue making.
Translating Innovation to Outcomes
Moving technologies from research and prototyping to commercialization through a combination of science and strategic vision
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Connected experimental performance to product strategy, customer value, and long-term technology roadmap decisions through techno-economic modeling and decision-support optimization tools built for the company's next-generation Power-to-Heat-to-Power system.
Commercialization
Tech. Strategy
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Led mechanical design, prototyping, and mechatronic efforts for a year-long client engagement, translating the final concept into patented IP positioned for design licensure and manufacturing.
IP
Frontier product design
Consulting
Navigating Innovation Ecosystems & Capital
Connecting academia, startups, industry, investors, and policymakers to accelerate the adoption of emerging technologies
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Served as technology scout and investment analyst for HAX (SOSV) — a $1B hard tech fund with 300+ portfolio companies — sourcing and evaluating 5 early-stage Hard Tech deals to help shape the fund's next-generation energy investment thesis.
Deal Flow
Due Diligence
Founder Evaluation
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Participated in a 12-month program preparing experienced professionals for leadership roles in investment, building investment judgement in pre-seed, seed, and Series A investing through mentorship, coaching, and a hands-on learning.
Built a Deep Tech investment thesis (Energy, Ag, Resource Management) centered on leveraging novel funding structures to unlock capital at the post-seed, pre-Series A stage
Thesis Building
Portfolio Construction
Capital Structuring
Leading Through Complexity
Aligning researchers, engineers, executives, customers, and partners around a shared technical direction, while mentoring engineers and creating environments where high-performing teams thrive
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Owned mechanical design for 11+ system parts across three shipping iPads — from concept to production. Logged 1,000+ hours in China at FATP sites, standing up assembly processes and de-risking critical design and assembly processes.
Cross-functional Design Leadership
Product Delivery
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Led the migration of 50% of the JPMC Institute research workload to a bespoke Amazon Cloud platform, overseeing platform architecture reviews and communicating budget and risk tradeoffs directly to upper management.
Executive-level risk communication
Project Management
Data Engineering
Financial Services
Driving Scientific Rigor
Published research applying systems thinking, computational modeling, and statistical analysis to help policy makers and industry leaders make better decisions across the evolving energy system
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Developed bespoke MILP model to expand existing analysis on GeoTES (advanced geothermal) technology as a peaking capacity resource
Operations Research
Advanced Geothermal
Thermal Energy storage
Hunter-Hill, J., Sioshansi, R. (2025). Evaluating Concentrated Solar Power Plant s with Geological Thermal Energy Storage as an Extended -Duration Peaking Resource . Manuscript in preparation.
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Developed a national-scale U.S. H2 supply chain optimization model for aviation with a primary focus on pathways for net-zero aviation transportation. Work explores energy supply chains and economies, multi-criteria decision making, and uncertainty analysis.
Decision Science
Supply Chain Analysis
Decarbonization Strategy
Hunter-Hill, J., Zhang, P. (2024). Optimal integration of hydrogen supply chain technologies enables resilient net-zero aviation with demand–emissions decoupling. Manuscript under review.
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Conducted statistical analysis to quantify the effect of bill assistance on energy consumption behavior, an under-explored area in energy insecurity mitigation studies and residential electrification.
Statistics/Econometrics
Machine Learning
Energy consumption
Energy subsidies