Justin Giffee

Non Profit Management, Marketing, and Outreach Intern with The SWEEP Standard, Research Assistant at Stone Living Lab

NREL Digitizing Utilities; ADL ICI project; weekly buildings content for LinkedIn, Mantacode Incubator and Accelerator Research; buildings long blog post for ADL website; 2023 conference outreach and planning; State and Local Retrofit Incentives Research; ProblemSpace Winners information synthesis; pulling contacts weekly with GetProspect; SalesForce information input, PETROLERN summary task; Commercialization Reference Database; ICI website interface brainstorming; Crunchbase research

My favorite part about being with ADL was having the opportunity to expand my knowledge of new innovations, policy creations, and projects in the buildings and energy verticals. I loved learning about new technologies and how ADL was working with others to develop extremely creative solutions. This experience gave me great insight to the future of both buildings and energy industries in the U.S. and across the world. I also had the great opportunity of enhancing my business skills by learning how ADL operates. I interacted with stakeholders on projects, engaged with leaders for potential conference targets in 2023, and took notes on really interesting brainstorming workshops. Working with a variety of the ADL staff was really cool because I learned of their roles and they all taught me so much!

While working at ADL, I improved my outreach and professional language skills when sending out important conference outreach emails. I also improved my research and writing skills through weekly buildings content posting. I learned how to navigate relevant articles in the buildings industry and write effective content for LinkedIn. I continued my research and writing skills while drafting my buildings post for ADL’s website. I became savvy with online tools such as GetProspect, SalesForce, Crunchbase for different applications. I vastly improved my content knowledge in the buildings and energy industries through weekly research, meetings with different ADL team members, and workshops.

I am thinking of continuing my education after college with interests in renewable energy, green technologies, sustainable business, and market based solutions. I am also considering working after college in those different fields. I am thinking of applying to ADL again as an associate after college too!