Jason Macdonald
Principal Scientific Engineering Associate
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Macdonald is a research-driven engineering leader with nearly two decades of experience delivering applied solutions in distributed energy systems, from DER coordination and automated demand response to EV integration and solar design. As a Principal Scientific Engineering Associate at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory he has led pilots that tied aggregations of thermostatic loads and small EV fleets into ancillary service markets and tackled market and regulatory barriers to grid participation. His background spans hands-on system design at companies like General Motors and Borrego Solar to modeling and data-driven analysis during his academic research, giving him rare fluency across hardware, controls, and energy market mechanics. Jason holds advanced training in energy and resources (PhD work at UC Berkeley) and a multidisciplinary MS from Michigan, reflecting deep modeling and experimental experience with large public datasets and simulation tools. Based in San Francisco, he combines field-tested PV and vehicle integration know-how with policy-savvy market analysis to turn research pilots into financially binding demonstrations. An engineer who still codes and models, he’s comfortable moving between CAD, MATLAB, and grid optimization to close the loop from prototype to market.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Energy and Resources, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Energy and Resources at University of California, BerkeleyMS/MSE, Natural Resources and the Environment, and Mechanical Engineering, MS/MSE, Natural Resources and the Environment, and Mechanical Engineering at University of MichiganUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (3)
react4
nodejs4
web-application4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jsmacdonald/jsmacdonald
Oct 2016 - Apr 2021
Contributions:5 PRs, 74 pushes, 9 branches in 4 years 6 months
jsmacdonald/EE290O_RamaGroup
Mar 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:16 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
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