As the Co-Founder and President of Contemporary Tiny Homes, I’m driven by a deep passion for making a meaningful difference in people’s lives. I truly believe that the Accessory Dwelling Units we build can transform the way people live—whether it's bringing families closer together through multigenerational living or helping homeowners generate passive income to ease the financial burden of rising costs. In a world where the housing crisis and high inflation weigh heavily on so many, I’m proud to be part of a solution that offers real opportunities for comfort, security, and growth.With over 20 years of leadership experience across technology, finance, consulting, and pharmaceuticals, I’ve had the privilege of starting products, services, and teams from the ground up, both in my own startup and in large corporations. But what excites me most is the chance to build something that truly matters—homes that not only meet a need but also enrich lives.Outside of work, my greatest joy comes from spending time with my wonderful husband and our four beautiful children. You’ll often find me sailing the open waters or riding my motorcycle, embracing the adventures that life brings.

- Built from scratch a high-performing team of data scientists of various technical backgrounds and levels of seniority (including PhD plus 10 years of experience) working on the development of new high quality data products and analytic methods, as well as research collaboration with academic partners.- Manage and coach up to 13 direct reports; responsibilities encompass (i) career development, which has led to internal mobility opportunities and within-team promotions including to director level, (ii) prioritization and end-to-end directing of analytical projects.- Have trained more than 20 interviewers so far to support the company’s hyper-growth phase after its $1.9 billion acquisition by Roche.- Represent the Quantitative Sciences vertical as an active or voting member in various scientific and cross-functional product leadership teams, collaborating on strategic planning and sponsoring company-wide technical projects.- Give presentations to internal and external audiences on topics such as our data products, analytic capabilities and training on analytic methods.

- Created an internal start-up team and developed the company’s consulting capability in investigating market manipulation cases, including training more than 20 consultants across three different offices. This practice area generated revenue of more than $5 million per year in repeat business from government agencies such as CFTC and DOJ.- Reported directly to Managing Principals (owners of the company) across different offices; my billings-under-management were on average above $200k per month.- Managed more than 30 complex consulting engagements from initiation to completion, producing highly detailed financial and economics reports (in some cases from terabytes of data) within very tight deadlines, including: - Developed a review protocol and managed 21 contract attorneys who searched for and reviewed publicly available information on a statistically valid random sample of potential class members to assist a big telecom against a class action. - Developed a vector error correction model (cointegration) with structural break to assess the stock price impact of the departure of about 20 traders from a broker-dealer. - Implemented a Monte-Carlo-type simulation to price real options involved in the development and partnership issues concerning the management of shopping centers. - Using data analysis and creative story-telling visualization, investigated whether there was manipulation in exchange traded LIBOR-based derivatives in a high-profile antitrust class action matter. - Assessed quality of forecasts of macroeconomic variables including real GNP growth and inflation used in Puerto Rico’s Fiscal Plan.

- Developed trading strategies using time series econometrics, statistics and data analysis. Examples include: - Developed statistical arbitrage trading strategy to provide liquidity at the market close with estimated profits of at least one million dollar per year. - Using time series analysis, developed high-frequency trading strategy based on lead-lag relationships between European and American markets. - Using regression analysis on order imbalance data, provided short-term forecast to traders around the equity market’s daily open auction.- Developed several Trading Cost Analysis (“TCA”) and best execution tools and procedures.- Manually traded index futures contracts to keep accounts beta/delta neutral for risk management purposes.

I developed a Trading Cost Analysis (TCA) framework to analyze not only traders' performance but also the brokers' performance regarding best execution, and how their performances varied with characteristics such as order size, market cap, volatility, liquidity, average daily volume, hour of the day, bid-ask spread, and others.My analysis provided the traders with parameters to fine tune their execution such as using different algorithmic trading strategies, or being more or less aggressive, depending on characteristics of the order and of the market.Additionally, using Monte Carlo simulations, I worked on finding the optimal limit price offset in price impact models, in bps with respect to arrival price, as a function of characteristics of the order and market.

During the third year of my master degree studies, I joined a group of senior professors in a large consulting job for the Brazilian government, in which we developed both a theoretical framework for forecasting macroeconomics time series and a software to implement it. As part of the consulting job, I also spent a week training members of the Ministry of Economics in Brasília on how to use the software we developed.During the second year, I was hired as a teacher by the economics department. I taught both econometrics and math for undergrad students.

- Developed an innovative microwave link technology that provided broadband Internet service in Recife, Brazil.- Grew client base to more than 1,000 subscribers in over 100 apartment buildings within six years.- Hired, trained and managed up to 28 employees.- Successfully executed exit strategy, selling the company to a larger corporation.