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Vallejo, Ca, Us

Vallejo, California, United States

Vallejo, California, United States

• Reviewed and decided on the approval of major city planning projects; determined whether major land use projects conform with the intent of the General Plan and the needs of the community• Engaged with the community; received input from the community regarding city planning processes and projects, and then communicated their concerns and ideas to city planning staff• Reviewed and approved the 386-page Zoning Code, which had not been updated in nearly 30 years; ensured the Zoning Code enables the vision of the General Plan and meets the needs of the community; conducted independent research on urban planning and design, economic development, and sustainable and resilient communities

Dublin, California, United States

• Review, interpret, and enforce US Army and Department of Defense policies and regulations; increased policy compliance from 60% to over 97% in Fiscal Year 2016; unit has ranked #3 (out of 96 units) in personnel readiness since 2022• Assessed and continuously improved processes for authorizing training and travel requests; developed easily accessible systems of record on Microsoft Teams which allowed for more agile workflow; operations output increased by ~40% with no significant change to the working hours of the command team• Conducted complex finance and control functions; reviewed and reconciled hundreds of orders (for training and mobilizations) and travel authorizations and vouchers; conducted multi-dimensional and complex financial analyses in order to determine appropriate control functions for each Fiscal Year; ensured operations within budget by 10% for three years (Fiscal Years 2019-2021); managed a training program that successfully ensured 100% compliance by the end of the fiscal year (completed on a ~$30,000 budget versus the originally estimated ~$700,000 via independent contractor)• Applied management principles, concepts, and practices from Six Sigma in order to cultivate highly functional teams; created spaces for creative thinking to address problems; used data and an iterative process to make adjustments to ensure mission success• Represented the unit as Research Assistant at the Naval Postgraduate School and Liaison to the Institute for Military Support to Governance at the US Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School; provided subject matter expertise on governance and rule of law

Middle East

• Awarded a Joint Service Commendation Medal for developing and managing an agile statistics-based assessment process in coordination with five different teams; successfully analyzed the impact of over a dozen concurrent development and stabilization projects in Iraq and Syria (>$500 million) in support of Operation Inherent Resolve; applied hypothesis testing and regression analyses (linear, nonparametric, and principal components models); maintained five datasets in collaboration with Department of Defense, State Department, and NGOs; provided executive-level reports on the status of projects to the Directorate Chief

Vallejo, California, United States

• Inspects ~5 large fabricated panels per day for compliance with specifications per the standard operating procedure• Conducts data collection (including random sampling) and data analysis of the required specifications for panels throughout the production process (~300 panels per month); collects and analyzes data on pressure, color rendering, hardness, roughness, lengths, and distances; reports the status of panels to the production supervisor; writes non-conformance reports (~5 per day) and informs productions supervisors and the entire quality control team• Provides guidance to production supervisors and production team leads to manage operations more efficiently in order to meet our daily and monthly goals

• Managed dozens of civic action programs and impact analyses in collaboration with USAID, US Navy engineers and health workers, and NGOs in Southeast Asia• Awarded Army Commendation Medal of leading a series of governance and rule of law workshops with approximately 500 local public officials and community leaders to mediate civil conflict and increase public sector accountability in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, Philippines

Ba Political Science

Activities and Societies: Roosevelt Institute, ASUCD Lobby Corps, Pilipino Americans in Science and Engineering, BRIDGEMinors in Asian.

Post-Graduate Certificate In Data Science