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Salem, Oregon, United States

Salem, Oregon, United States

Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

Portland, Oregon, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Senior urban planner on the Land Use and Community Planning team.

San Francisco, California

Urban planner in the Information and Analysis Group and the Housing and Equity Team within the Citywide Planning Division.

San Francisco Bay Area

Working on integrating legacy data sets for Public Life Studies into a single shared database. Creating a public narrative on ArcGIS StoryMaps and Tableau Story for conveying the importance of public life studies.Managing the creation of a Public Life Study Standards Manual for use in future public life studies citywide.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Regional Planning Assistant II with the General Plan and Housing team within the Advance Planning Division of the Regional Planning department. Current Projects:- Researching and creating healthy design guidelines for development within unincorporated communities. - Writing and finalizing the state-mandated annual update on the Housing Element and General Plan Annual Progress Report for the County. Also presented the annual update to the Planning Commission in March of 2017.- Managing a Senate Bill 2 research project to identify zoning areas of Los Angeles County for shelters. - Creating identifiers or variables of equity with datasets available to the County. - Working on the Compact Lot Subdivision Ordinance and conducting outreach for the Ordinance to communities and neighborhoods within the County.- Writing the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the Compact Lot Subdivision Ordinance.- Managing and developing materials for outreach on various housing initiatives (Compact Lot Subdivision Ordinance, ADU Ordinance, Density Bonus Ordinance, and the Livable Communities Design Guidelines) within the County.

Santa Monica, California

Working with the Housing and Economic Development Division of the City of Santa Monica to gather and visualize data on rent reasonableness, rent burdened households, and homeless programs.

Cupertino, California

Investigating fraud at iTunes and actioning on cases to prevent further misuse or misrepresentation of Apple products.Collaborating with multiple teams across the company to proactively manage fraud processes for new products. Creating additional workflows and streamlining current processes for mitigating fraud on various products.Creating reports using new applications. Using Tableau to visualize and represent fraud and operational data.

San Francisco Bay Area

The analysis and presentation of data collected from transaction review and underwriting using Tableau and SQL.The utilization of this data to create visual dashboards for the improvement and efficiency of the Risk process.The organization and implementation of Risk tools by submitting code changes directly to Risk platforms.The creation of new datasets to further analyze and improve Risk tools and processes.Organizing data collected from social media responses to minimize impact on good merchants.Conducting manual review of accounts for account verification purposes.

Greater Seattle Area

Responsible for the management of the Map Maker team, including team structuring, productivity, and quality. Managing multiple cross-functional projects for marketing, user interface, user engagement, design, and business analysis.Managing the deployment of new product features.Conducting market analysis to determine new country releases and the incorporation of user competitions.Writing and presenting project plans to validate investments and resource allocation to program managers.Working with engineering teams to develop quality and user experience.Organizing and attending events or presence at conferences to bring awareness of the product to consumers.Conducting presentations of the product to external users and contributing content to the product's blogs and social media outlets.Founded and managed content for a user newsletter restricted to top users of the product.Managing the online community through Google Groups and forums in order to understand consumer needs, workflow, and reported bugs.

Master’S Degree, City/Urban, Community And Regional Planning

Geography, Urban Planning, Architecture

Economics, Geography, Architecture

Activities and Societies: Indian Student Association, Desi Dhamaka Committee, University of Washington Gajjde Punjabi Bhangra Team