Sean Battey

Chemical engineer focused on putting battery storage and clean-energy technology into service at scale. Currently covering every Colorado battery storage project for Invenergy's Energy Storage team, from RFP response to capex and opex pricing. Previously managed an $11M decarbonization program at Anheuser-Busch that added a 4.5 MWh battery and a 5.1 MW solar array to a working brewery.

Senior Staff Engineer · Invenergy

Oct 2026 – Present

• Cover all battery energy storage (BESS) projects in Colorado: internal development projects Invenergy will own and operate, as well as PPA and engineer-and-transfer projects.
• Work with development, finance, electrical engineering, project management, and procurement to respond to every RFP and keep pricing models as competitive as possible; the team holds final sign-off of the pricing estimate on a capex and opex basis.

Founder Fellowship · TriMech Group

Nov 2025 – Oct 2026

• Selected and engineered a two-layer filter media (electrostatic nonwoven PLA + activated carbon) for a wearable in-nostril air-filtration device, choosing materials against filtration efficiency and breathability targets for residents and travelers in high-pollution urban environments.
• Iterated through four silicone mold designs in SolidWorks with injection-molding design considerations, converging on manufacturable round and narrow geometries across three sizes to fit variation in nostril anatomy.

Consultant Engineer · FM Global

Jul 2025 – Oct 2025

• Conducted on-site risk assessments and contributed to client-facing reports covering an estimated $750M+ in insurable value across diverse occupancies, including an MLB stadium, large-scale candle manufacturing, data centers, roofing material manufacturing, FedEx ground and air distribution centers, and high-rise office buildings.
• Built and shipped an internal navigation and macro tool (AutoHotkey) for a 100,000+ page underwriting reference library, adopted by a 300+ engineer west coast team to standardize protection recommendations by building occupancy.

Senior Reviewer · Outlier AI

Oct 2024 – Jul 2025

• Promoted to senior reviewer across 25+ projects, auditing expert-generated training data for frontier AI labs spanning chemistry, reasoning, agentic workflows, and formal proofs in Lean.

Project Engineer · Anheuser-Busch

Sep 2023 – Oct 2024

• Managed execution and California Energy Commission (CEC) grant compliance for an $11M industrial decarbonization program, overseeing installation of a 4.5 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) and 5.1 MW solar array supplying 10% of brewery energy demand.
• Provided owner's-side commissioning oversight for the BESS and solar array, witnessing contractor-executed SAT, loop checks, and point-to-point I/O verification, and confirming results against design specifications, P&IDs, and safety standards.
• Coordinated EPC and third-party M&V contractors and drove punch list closure, confirming all specified tests were completed, documented, and accepted.

CapEx Intern · Anheuser-Busch

May 2023 – Aug 2023

• Engineered an AVEVA PI Vision dashboard integrating all brewery steam users for real-time load prediction and boiler optimization; reduced pressure-drop root cause identification time by 95%.
• Defined and configured 600+ pressure, temperature, and flow tags across all steam-consuming assets in a production brewery, establishing OPC historian reporting paths for equipment that previously reported only to local Siemens FactoryLink HMIs.
• Modeled steam demand and boiler efficiency losses in an Excel-based energy audit, building the financial justification for an $8M capital investment in new boiler infrastructure.

Battery Research Assistant · University of Southern California

May 2022 – May 2024

• Co-authored a manuscript in preparation on Li₄ZrF₈, an inverse postspinel solid electrolyte whose orthorhombic structure provides a quasi-1D Li⁺ diffusion pathway, contributing synthesis, sample preparation, and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) characterization.
• Reduced AlF₃ impurity in the fluoride garnet Na₃Al₂Li₃F₁₂ by 75% through systematic ball-milling parameter optimization, validated by synchrotron powder X-ray diffraction with Rietveld refinement (Stanford SSRL Beamline 2-1) and confirmed by ²⁷Al solid-state NMR.
• Scaled solid electrolyte sample production from 3 to 10–15 pellets per week within 3 months through process standardization and documentation.

Thin Film Lab Fellow · University of Southern California

Jan 2021 – May 2023

• Synthesized novel perovskite chalcogenide photovoltaic layers by pulsed laser deposition; awarded best sustainable energy presentation at USC's 2021 research symposium.

Sustainable Finance Intern · GreenCap Global

Dec 2022 – Jun 2023

• Built a carbon-cost risk model spanning 195 countries and analyzed 92 sector leaders to project policy-driven GDP impact.

Solar Power to Gas Plant · University of Southern California

• Completed a FEED proposal for a solar-powered methanation plant, delivering the highest NPV among 9 competing proposals over a 30-year operating horizon.
• Developed P&IDs and process flow models using AVEVA Process Simulation, MATLAB, and Microsoft Visio; conducted environmental, safety, and economic sensitivity analyses.

B.S. Chemical Engineering, Energy and Sustainability · University of Southern California

May 2024