Energy & Sustainability Specialist
Krisha Tracy has over 15 years of experience conceptualizing, creating and supporting technology solutions to advance energy and sustainability initiatives by creatively applying emerging technologies to create cutting edge solutions and leading industries in their quest for increased accuracy, efficiency and overall optimization.
Since joining Google she has focused on driving innovative solutions for energy and sustainability to serve across all industries. She has made major contributions as a technical lead building a climate action solution at X, The Moonshot Factory within Alphabet which focused on carbon free energy and carbon sequestration. She has built solutions that range from ESG monitoring & Scope 3 reduction to solutions that drive progress towards Net Zero. She has built a supportive network connecting with customers and partners across several industries to better ideate, develop and deliver impactful, creative, next-gen solutions that carry throughout a value chain.
Before joining Google, she was a Solutions Architect at Red Hat and before that she was a Product Manager designing software and innovative solutions and programs at Halliburton. She received her Masters in Geology from Texas A&M University and another Masters in Biology at Georgia College & State University and holds a bachelors from The University of Georgia.
Google Cloud
Industry Solutions Manager: Supply Chain Sustainability Specialist
2021 - Present
The Google Cloud Industry Solutions organization is responsible for creating differentiated solutions that solve the challenges of industry leaders. In this role, Krisha conceptualized, designed, organized and implemented sustainability focused solutions for supply chains. Among the more impactful solutions were ESG insights, Supply Chain Net Zero portfolio planning and execution, and Responsible Procurement with Scope 3 GHG reduction. She conducted scores of executive presentations to communicate the value of sustainability focused solutions within the supply chain. She identified and collaborated with partners to create integrated solutions and/or services to meet the needs of Google Cloud customers supply chain needs while creating material encouraging wider and faster adaptability.
X, The Moonshot Factory
SME & Technical Program Manager
2020
X, The Moonshot Factory is an incubator for strategic business ideas that create innovative solutions which will impact the world with a positive environmental outcome. In this role, Krisha helped conceptualize, define and create the business plan aimed at reducing the global carbon footprint. As an energy subject matter expert and lead researcher, she was instrumental in defining the direction of the project using her industry knowledge to create a comprehensive SWOT analysis and differentiated market value for a targeted solution. She worked with the Department of Energy, several leading universities and national laboratories to lay the groundwork for an innovative approach to carbon sequestration.
Google Cloud, Professional Services
Engagement Manager & Energy Lead
2019-2020
Google Cloud Professional Services delivers first class support to help organizations rapidly deploy, operate, monitor, and scale their cloud-based applications. As the Energy lead for PSO, Krisha identified and executed strategies/solutions that connected GCP solutions to solve Energy Industry challenges. She provided the subject matter expertise and lead customer discussions, presentations and engagements showcasing the value of Google Cloud to the customers technical needs.
This role focused on driving transformational discussions for O&G companies to diversify their portfolios to be more ESG compliant. This key contribution was the influencing factor identified at the C-Level at several major O&G companies leading them to choose and commit to Google Cloud as their primary cloud provider.
Red Hat
Solutions Architect
2019
At Red Hat, Krisha served as a solutions architect for middle ware products focusing on constructing solutions for the energy industry. She provided strategic direction in identifying and delivering technical solutions for enterprise customers in the energy vertical focused on containerization, edge computing and data analytics for private and/or public cloud services.
Halliburton
Strategic Software Portfolio Manager
2008-2019
At Halliburton, Krisha served as a product manager for geological and petrophysical software solutions for many years. She also served as the Strategic Software Portfolio Manager to manage the success of Landmark's suite of geological, geophysical and petrophysical solutions. Her visionary skills in identifying and cultivating innovative solutions while providing business justification, usage projection and capacity needs targeting portfolio gaps while addressing industry trends resulted in an increase share of market and millions of dollars of revenue. In her leading role in R&D she created prioritized lists of new feature development, strategically targeting themes and gaps in the portfolio driven by a full market analysis. She redefined the success criteria and implemented procedures to improve the quality of Landmarks’s geoscience software products resulting in a reduction of regression defects by 55%. During this time, she also managed the release cycle and served as the lead Product Manager for Landmark’s premier petro-technical solution, Decisionspace Geosciences, and implemented improved monitoring, development and quality assurance processes, which resulted in a mitigation of risk and uncertainty and critical & timely successful release.
United States Patent Patent No. US 11220898 B2 ‘Automated Well-Log Correlation Using Descriptors’ Awarded on January 11, 2022
United States Patent Patent No. US 11409016 ‘Correlating Strata Surfaces Across Well Logs’ Awarded on August 9, 2022