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San Francisco, CA, US

New York, New York, United States

• Leading the buyer post-purchase experience for StubHub's US and international brands
• Driving a team of five engineers and two designers to maximize event admission rate
• Managing the deployment of 200+ A/B tests at a (currently) 24% success rate

New York, New York, United States

• Technology Consultant in EY's Intelligent Automation practice
• Created one of the first dealerships in the metaverse for an online auto retailer
• Self-taught Unity and C# to build a virtual reality proof-of-concept in under 5 weeks
• Presented to EY's global metaverse team and the model is expected to be turned into a full-scale platform
• Justified the business case using industry comparisons, enumerated investment options, and projected returns

• Data Scientist with the A&R team for a Big 4 record label
• Helped optimize marketing campaigns by predicting viral songs and artists on social media
• Developed time series forecasting algorithms and predictive Bayesian analyses
• Packaged program into an ETL pipeline that autonomously scrapes TikTok and delivers Atlantic's marketing team a 'viral forecast' via email

Lyndhurst, New Jersey, United States

• Machine Learning Engineer for consulting firm specializing in nonprofit philanthropy
• Saved significant outreach resources by predicting gift-giving in higher education
• Secured a 1.5M+ point dataset with philanthropy data from three major US universities
• Programmed a 5-layer neural network classifier to predict a candidate's expected donation size
• Built regression models to identify features indicative of principal gift-giving

• Product Manager for HR firm specializing in cognitive diversity
• Led the creation of a natural language classifier to identify the thinking preferences of an email's author
• Mined internal data to compile training corpus, conducted sentiment analysis using IBM Watson, and designed corresponding UI with JavaScript and React

Boulder, Colorado, United States

• Frontend Software Engineer for data science startup acquired by DataRobot in 2021
• Conducted UX research and built UI to handle machine learning simulations
• Designed components with Figma and produced them using JavaScript and React

Hanover, New Hampshire, United States

• Research Assistant in Cognitive Science lab at Dartmouth
• Conducted theory of mind research on how people represent factive mental states (what other people know) versus non-factive mental states (what other people believe)
• Classified literature into factive and non-factive representations, analyzed data in R, and helped determine which type of representation is more computationally fundamental

New York, NY

• Marketing intern for PR firm specializing in music artists
• Led email marketing campaigns, securing 15+ positive artist review publications
• Pitched artists to media outlets which ultimately signed two new artists to the firm
• Conducted market research, wrote and edited press releases, and managed informal UX research

Bachelor Of Arts, Major In Cognitive Science And Minor In Computer Science

• Activities and Societies: Research Assistant with PhilLab, Business Development Analyst for The Dartmouth, Political Economy Project •.

High School Diploma

• Leadership: TEDxScarsdale (Co-President and Co-Founder), CivEd Advisor for Underclass Mentoring • Honors and Awards: Signifer Honor.

Business Of Entertainment, Media And Sports Program