Trace O’Rorke is a Consultant at Verdant Associates with 7 years of experience managing and analyzing customer energy usage and survey data. His primary work has focused on residential energy efficiency program evaluation, namely for home energy report behavioral programs for several clients across the U.S. He is proficient in both R and SQL and specializes in the management, analysis, and quality control of large data sets to help deliver accurate and actionable program feedback. Trace enjoys developing flexible tools within R that yield reliable and reproducible results which often help to expedite his analyses. He has a track record for providing timely and innovative solutions to complex data problems and generating insightful results from customer survey analysis.
Trace received both his M.A. in Resource and Energy Demand Analysis and B.S. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a proud cat dad and a video game enthusiast and can often be found gaming with his cat square on his lap. He has a known travel bug and is eager to plan a road trip or a vacation to Japan at any time, and also enjoys the parks, paths, and city life in Madison whenever he can.
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