Spencer Strandholt

01Aridisol — desert soil0 – 0.6 mHolocene

How to read this page

The law of superposition

In undisturbed rock, the youngest layer lies on top and every layer beneath it is older. This résumé is laid down the same way: the deeper you scroll, the further back you read.

The gauges are real. Depth, temperature, pressure and gravity follow the ground under Scottsdale, then the interior of the planet. Move your cursor to aim the lamp.

02Caliche hardpan0.6 – 2 mPleistocene

2026 — Present · Scottsdale, AZ

Siemens

Account Manager — Medium-Voltage & Distribution

I manage Arizona accounts for Siemens’ medium-voltage switchgear and overhead distribution products: the equipment that switches, protects and routes power between the substation and the street.

Products: MV switchgear · Overhead distribution
Territory: Arizona
Based: Scottsdale

It’s the top layer, the newest one. Everything below it — energy economics, field science, a lot of selling — is what it rests on.

Red-dyed concrete encasement
PVC conduit
Copper conductor
XLPE insulation
Copper wire screen
PE jacket
Spare conduit

Fig. 1 Medium-voltage duct bank, section view · −1.15 to −1.60 m. The concrete is often dyed red so anyone digging knows exactly what they’ve hit.

03Basin fill2 – 120 mMiocene – Pleistocene

2025 — 2026 · Austin, TX

OnSwitch Energy

C&I PV + BESS Sales Analyst

Commercial solar-plus-storage deals are won or lost in the model. I rebuilt ours and automated most of the busywork around it.

80%less time per quote

300 kW+PV + BESS projects priced

10+APIs in the lead engine

Built an automatic quoting tool that sizes the system, prices the equipment and generates the proposal.
Consolidated the financial models; pro formas and pricing now run end to end in Excel VBA and Python, fed by API-driven incentive and rate tables.
Rolled out Energy Toolbase for C&I PV and storage proposals, standardizing tariff, demand-charge and incentive modeling.
Priced 300 kW+ PV + BESS opportunities with payback, IRR and bill-offset scenarios.
Mapped every building in target markets with ArcGIS, GeoJSON and Python, then scored each for Energy Community ITC eligibility as a lead magnet.
Connected Salesforce to quoting and approvals to track pipeline, margin and turnaround.

04Aquifer — saturated basin fillWater table120 – 900 m

Jul 2024 — Jul 2025 · Austin, TX

Stem

BESS Sales Analyst

An aquifer is a battery for water: filled in wet years, drawn down in dry ones. At Stem I modeled the other kind.

1 of 86Innovation Award, first six months

5ISO markets modeled

Built energy models and pro formas in Excel VBA, Python and Postman for battery revenue across ERCOT, CAISO, ISO-NE, MISO and NYISO.
Pulled data from batteries under management through APIs to report system health and shape each client’s go-forward strategy.
Priced microgrid opportunities, turning feasibility questions into investment cases.
Managed key partners in Salesforce and scoped early BESS and PPA structures for new prospects.
Won the Innovation Award within six months, chosen from 86 nominees, for workflow automation, lead generation and process optimization.

Also in Austin: event coordinator for Solar Austin, running clean-tech networking events and growing attendance by more than 40%.

05Proterozoic graniteUnconformity0.9 – 15 km~1.4 billion years

Nov 2022 — Jun 2024 · Remote

EnergyPal

Account Executive — Solar & Battery Systems

Before I modeled deals, I closed them. More than a hundred.

$1.2M+revenue in one year

100+solar + storage deals

−25%cancellations

Closed 100+ commercial and residential solar-plus-storage deals and generated $1.2M+ in a single year.
Owned the whole contract lifecycle: acquisition, enrollment, billing, payment and fulfillment.
Cut cancellations by 25% by leading issue resolution across teams.
Automated the workflow steps that slowed a high-volume pipeline.
Researched community-solar markets to point sales and marketing at new territory.

12,262 m Kola Superdeep Borehole — the deepest hole ever drilled (1989)

06Lower crust — gneiss15 – 30 km

Apr — Nov 2022 · Collingwood, ON

Crozier Consulting Engineers

Environmental Consultant — Hydrogeology

People have drilled past 12 km exactly once. My wells were shallower, but the job was the same: read what’s underground before anything gets built on top of it.

25+proposals written & won

+30%project approvals

20%faster decisions

Ran hydrogeological field investigations and analysis in Excel, R and ArcGIS for renewable-energy projects, cutting decision timelines by 20%.
Wrote and secured 25+ proposals for hydrogeological assessments and on-site sewage designs; approvals rose 30%.
Supervised well-drilling contractors in the field.
Built hydrographs and reports on seasonal groundwater swings to flag risk early.

≈525 °C Draper point — the rock begins to glow

07Upper mantle — peridotiteMoho30 – 410 km

Waterloo, ON

Wilfrid Laurier University

Honours BSc, Environmental Science · Minor in Computer Science

Everything above started here: the science of how the Earth works, and the code to model it.

GPA: 3.7
Option: Sustainability
Honours thesis: Wetland fungal analysis in urban watersheds
Coursework: Physics of Solar Energy · Atmospheric Chemistry · Analytical Chemistry · Statistics

08Transition zone — ringwoodite410 – 660 km

2019

Hidden water

Ringwoodite holds water inside its crystals, possibly as much as all the oceans combined. Some of what shaped me doesn’t show on a résumé either.

Summer 2019 · Taiping, Malaysia

Green Lion Orangutan Project

Volunteer & English Teacher

Cared for eight orangutans, preparing specialized diets and building enrichment puzzles, and ran English workshops for 20+ Malaysian-Tamil schoolchildren.

Summer 2019 · Collingwood, ON

Collingwood Youth Centre

Team Lead

Designed weekly programs for teens aged 13–17 and grew enrollment by 120%. Launched a zero-waste food program and a community garden.

09Lower mantle — bridgmanite660 – 2,891 km

2012 — 2024 · Collingwood, ON

Bay Haven Nursing Home

Operations Manager — Family Business

Bridgmanite is the most common mineral on Earth, and almost nobody has seen it. Twelve years helping run my family’s nursing home is similar: it’s most of what I know about people, and it rarely shows.

12years

50+staff led

−20%turnover

Started a university co-op program that raised staff competency and service quality and cut turnover by 20%.
Led a 50+ person team across functions, improving efficiency and resident care.

10Outer core — liquid iron & nickelCore–mantle boundary2,891 – 5,150 km

Always running

The dynamo

Convecting liquid iron down here generates Earth’s magnetic field. This is my engine room: the tools I build with, and the things I build on my own time.

Founder

SKPS

An AI-automation practice for small teams: solar lead-generation pipelines, live client dashboards, document OCR and construction-site vision tools.

Pitch-competition winner

De.Pow

A concept for tokenized solar generation that won BlockBeam’s Gateway to Algorand pitch competition (Cohort 1).

Toolkit

Python
Excel VBA
R
ArcGIS
QGIS
Salesforce
Energy Toolbase
Postman & REST APIs
JavaScript / HTML / CSS
Solidity
Adobe Suite

Credentials: LEED Green Associate · PADI Open Water · Black belt, Tae Kwon Do
Languages: English · Spanish (fluent) · French (conversational)
Off the clock: Basketball — Senior Boys MVP 2016, 7× Laurier intramural champion · Mycology · Raspberry Pi builds · Off-grid systems · Travel

11Inner core — solid ironInner-core boundary5,150 – 6,371 km

The center of the Earth

6,371 km

≈5,400 °Cabout as hot as the Sun’s surface
3.6M atmsolid because it’s too compressed to melt
0 ggravity cancels out at the center

You dug all the way down. Let’s talk.

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