January 2025 is quickly approaching. With it comes my two year anniversary with my current employer, D+R International. While I could ramble about the personal impacts and ramifications, in a good way of course, that this job has had for me since leaving the classroom, the biggest highlight has been seeing the amount of creative work and experience I have developed along the way.
This job brought me into a new area of educational focus that I had no been familiar with since my days in television and that was the idea of teaching adults. Yes, I loved entertaining and teaching young adults and younger students how to grow up and have some trust skills under their toolbelt for the world of television and filmmaking but now, oh baby, it’s about…water heaters and HVAC? Yes, the very areas of work and education that I try and avoid when my wife drags me into Lowes or Home Depot on the weekends.
It’s not so bad.
Really, it’s not. I’m incredibly grateful to have an opportunity to challenge myself and continue to learn, especially when it comes to the topics of energy efficiency in residential and commercial environments. It’s fascinating to learn just how much technology and workflows exist out there for every day life that could benefit both your wallet and the environment. I have been at the forefront in some ways helping both homeowners, businesses, and even farms. We’re all learning how to adopt new hot water heating tactics, why electric cars are not so scary, and how to make utility infrastructure better over the next half century.
I am very fortunate to work alongside a very talented and versatile team. We have had to learn a lot of different tools and industry lingo in a very short amount of time, especially with unique client needs for delivery and turn around to their customers, employees, and audiences. My colleagues and I have been utilizing Adobe applications for our creative endeavors, as well as Articulate 360 programs, and even learning how to use Amazon web storage services. My work is all over now, even Energy.Gov.
- https://bsesc.energy.gov/teaching-materials/interactive-hpwh-installation-maine
- https://bsesc.energy.gov/teaching-materials/interactive-hpwh-installation-massachusetts
Visit one of the links above and you’ll be taken to a page that looks like this. Take a look, these were the first two projects I had the pleasure of working on when I joined the team. A lot of great folks in the north east benefitted from the heat pump water heaters we documented for energy savings and performance.
There are other projects still in progress that I will include on my site and portfolio in due time. Until then, back to work.
Shoutout to Lester Terrance and Mairead Carey, two of the many dope colleagues I have.