USAID HR Specialist- over 1 year experience in Foreign Service Officer (FSO) Recruitment and Hiring (R&H) transformation. Stood up completely new USAID FS R&H virtual platform to decrease access barriers to interview global FSO talent in the post-COVID environment. The improved platform offers seamless coordination among all stakeholders and reduces previous logistical constraints. The new virtual interview process has received resoundingly positive feedback from leadership, stakeholders involved in conducting interviews, as well as those invited to attend interviews.

Research Assistant for Implementing the New Economy Minigrant Project• Urban and regional improvement planning for Worcester State University and local area • Researching anchor institutions within Massachusetts and performing literature, demographic, and zoning reviews • Interviewing key informants and city officials in Worcester, Boston, and Amherst, MA • Collaborating data analysis with project colleagues • Assisted developing a Social Business Academia Conference paper (Paris, France) and presentation for New Economy Summit (Worcester, MA)

Assigned to the 67th Cyberspace Wing, located at Lackland Air Force Base, as an Intelligence Analyst, cyber warfare Subject Matter Expert (SME), and briefer. 26th Cyber Operations Group, San Antonio, TX• Hand-selected to lead 95 wing-level briefings to provide operational awareness and inform senior leaders on cyber operations affecting 3 groups, totaling 3.2K users• Coordinated wing operations, responded to global Air Force (AF) network issues while sustaining communications and providing real-time situational awareness• Discovered National Security Agency (NSA) classified message incidents and led efforts to mitigate harmful classified data leakages• Protected the personal identifiable information (PII) of 20K+ AF members• Routinely briefed high-ranking military officials, such as the Chief of Staff of the Air Force (CSAF), the Under Secretary of the Air Force, and the Department of Defense (DoD) Deputy Chief Information Officer, about new cyber capabilities and their importance to the DoD68th Network Warfare Squadron, San Antonio, TX• Identified 21 critical vulnerabilities regarding the President of the United States, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and CSAF travel itineraries; 3 major privacy breaches and briefed the CSAF, securing 74K members’ PII; 81 privacy breaches that secured 95K AF members’ PII; and 10 classified message incidents that prevented adversary exploitation• Aided Secret Service and Office of Special Investigation to diminish threats to United States leaders• Created 46 network vulnerability reports/prevented 150 compromised accounts from exploitation• Selected to join an AF special mission team, out of 50+ individuals, exploiting 200K communications and identified critical AF-level program vulnerabilities