Susannah Hill

Strategic marketing, analysis, and business management
A passion for decarbonizing the information technology industry
Consulting projects and professional opportunities

Strategic Marketing and Management

Management consulting - Senior Consultant
Strategy and Balanced Scorecard projects
Telecommunications and technology Fortune 500 clients

Market Intelligence, Pricing, Partnerships - Senior Manager
Enterprise telecommunications software, team manager
Startup marketing director before acquisition by Phone.com
Executive Director
Leader, organizational redesign, and fundraising campaign growth

Board member and Strategic Planning Chair
Fundraising and strategy advising for performing arts lung cancer nonprofit

Sustainability and Decarbonization

Co-Creator and Lead Researcher
Team leader on project to research and recommend action for IT professionals and the public to reduce the environmental impact of cloud computing 
Publication of white paper due October 2024

Climatebase Fellow 
Sustainability career and startup accelerator, sustainability curriculum study
Commissioner
Environmental Quality Commission, City of Menlo Park
Advise City Council and staff on city's greenhouse gas emissions, climate change resilience, building decarbonization, and urban canopy

350 Silicon Valley
Menlo Park Team
Part of 350.org, grassroots team working to advance a transition away from fossil fuels towards 100% renewable energy
 
"Carbon Accounting and Reduction"
Terra.do
Winter 2024
GHG Protocol corporate value chain standards
Science Based Targets Initiative
Corporate net zero standards

Corporate climate action plans
"Sustainability: Strategies and Opportunities for Industry"
MIT Professional Education
Winter 2023
Life Cycle Assessment using OpenLCA software
Material flow and material input analysis
Levelized cost of energy and power density calculation
"Clean Energy Solutions: Technological Change to Meet Emissions Reduction Targets"
MIT Professional Education
Spring 2023
Models to inform investments
Evaluation of energy systems
Performance metrics and targets
Technology change trajectories in energy
Climatebase Fellowship
Climatebase
Spring - Summer 2024
Launch: "Cloud Sustainability Watch" campaign to reduce the environmental impact of cloud computing
Delivered: "Electrify Your Residence" webinar
Decarbonized energy systems, pathway to net zero
Virtual power plans and grid energy solutions
"Electric Industry Operations and Markets"
Coursera from Duke University
Ongoing to present
Electric power, electric energy, electromagnetism
Power plants, capacity factors
Transmission, distribution, power line loss
Pricing, LCOE, managing supply to meet demand
"Basics of Organizational GHG Accounting"
GHG Institute
underway - not completed
Greenhouse gas accounting principles
Identifying and tracking emissions
Setting GHG reduction targets
GHG inventory reporting
"Assessing Data Center Sustainability: Benchmarking and Best Practices"
Uptime Institute Webinar
Spring 2024
Data center energy use and carbon emissions
Sustainability initiatives to reduce expense
Availability and resiliency
"Does Data Center Growth Have to Come at the Cost of Sustainability?"
Uptime Institute Webinar
Fall 2024
Definition of sustainable data centers
IT efficiency, improving PUE/WUE
Renewables targets, Scope 3 accounting problems

Case Studies and Projects

Case study: New software pricing model

Case study: Market entry decision

Case study: Fundraising strategy

 

Cloud Sustainability Watch

A campaign to reduce the environmental impact of cloud computing by enabling IT professionals in taking action and by raising public awareness

Electrifying Your Residence webinar

A webinar for sustainability audiences providing detail on the equipment, actions, and watch-outs of electrifying a rented or owned residence

Education

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