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Atlanta, Ga, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

- Directly managed 6 engineers including 1 manager who managed 3 engineers. Built a strong engineering culture that resulted in high team morale and strong productivity. Managed team through acquisition by OneMain Financial.- Led all engineering recruiting that resulted in hiring 8 new engineers.- Collaborated with Product and worked with engineers to help scope, manage, and deliver projects. Sat on Voice of Customer team to help brainstorm and deliver technical expertise. Helped build and manage sprints.- Involved in major technical projects including SSO access to Trim for OneMain Financial Customers and Employees, Subscription Service Redesign, Rails upgrade from 4.2 to 6.1, and updates to our backend administrative portal.- Reviewed PRs, reviewed technical plans, and contributed code.

San Francisco, California, Us

Started primarily as a Frontend Engineer but over time moved more full-stack. Some highlights of projects include:- Built Trim's new dashboard that highlights how much Trim has saved users.- Built the Trim Transaction Brain that acts as Trim's CTA Engine for helping guide users toward savings opportunities.- Led the integration switch of payment providers from Braintree to Stripe which included designing our frontend, building out new backend logic and tables that were payment provider agnostic, and migrated all Braintree card data to Stripe data.- Built Trim's onboarding funnel that allowed users to sign up for all of Trim's premium features.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

After completing the internship, I was retained to continue to build the MVP for HomeSlice (http://home-slice.io) working 10+ hours per week. Built complete end to end custom components, using React, Redux, and Apollo to connect to our Node back end. Set up the GraphQL server that sits on top of Express, including defining the schema and connecting the resolvers to our PostgreSQL database.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Part-time 10+ hours a week position building out an MVP for an early stage home co-ownership startup.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

At Redshift, I worked with their client, Noon Home (http://noonhome.com), to fix bugs and stylings, extend features, and create new React components on their website and custom Shopify webstore. Additionally, I built Noon’s Holiday Promotion page to spec. Noon Home is built with React, Redux, Express, and multiple external APIs.

Selected by Galvanize instructors for the full-time paid Web Developer Resident (WDR) program. As a WDR, I assisted the instructors with planning, helping students debug their React/Redux and Express code, gave lectures and breakouts on React/React testing and Computer Science topics, tested out curriculum, and taught Learn To Code intro classes.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

- Simultaneously executed multiple complex events with competing priorities, tight timetables and a variety of vendors, venues, donors, and stakeholders.- Assistant Gala Captain of 32nd Annual Fammy Awards Gala (February 27, 2016 Ritz Carlton). In charge of front of house operations, recruiting and staffing, planning, and executing sold-out event that was attended by 600 guests and raised over $1 Million. - Planned, coordinated, produced, and executed the sold-out 31st Annual Fammy Awards Gala (March 21, 2015 Ritz Carlton) that raised over $1 Million. Onboarded first-ever Mobile Bidding technology, which brought new life to auction.- Gala Co-Captain of 15th Annual Emigre Community Gala (January 27, 2016 Westin St. Francis). Planned, coordinated, recruited and staffed, managed travel and fulfilled riders for entertainment, oversaw Banquet Event Order, and executed tremendously successful event that was attended by over 450 guests and raised over $600,000. - Planned, coordinated, produced, assisted with travel, and executed the very successful 14th Annual Emigre Community Gala (February 7, 2015 Westin St. Francis) that raised over $600,000. Brought in new donors and donations.- Researched and led implementation of Mobile Bidding technology that transitioned away from paper bid sheets at Fammy Galas. - In charge of Fammy Gala Auctions. Analyzed auction sales trends and revised auction outreach plans. Led the solicitation of goods, managed development team’s outreach, and tracked solicitation asks. Brought in 33% new items year one and 45% new items year two. Increased auction retail value 26% and auction sales value 30% year two.- Managed permitting process for all galas with Alcohol Beverage Control.- Planned, coordinated, and executed a broad spectrum of hospitality and special events, meetings, internal staff events, community functions, and donor fundraising events. Managed set-up, catering, prizes, and logistics.

- JMP Securities - Researched, edited, and drafted “THE HOT 100, The Best Privately Held Software Companies” report- 2020EyesDirect.com - Website user testing- ServiceSource, Inc. - Dreamforce Conference Assistant - Northern Lights School - Coordinator Celebrity Invitational Tournament - JMP Securities Conference - Conference Assistant (May 2011)

San Francisco, Ca, Us

- Created, coordinated, and directed event flow and presentation for all 91 ticketed events, including live televised events. Collaborated with numerous departments. Created memorable experiences that increased engagement and attendance. - Managed and provided direction for 14-member event and marketing team and a Promotions Coordinator.- Fostered relationships with partners, participants, customers, and clients. Primary point-of-contact for information and direction about programs, projects, and events.- Wrote all event scripts to engage fans and promote sponsors. Managed, wrote, and designed compelling content for social media platforms, 10,000+ weekly emails, and marketing collateral to develop, grow, and energize customer base.- Wrote or assisted in writing marketing plans that created new programs and redefined and expanded marketing effort.- Revised, improved, and in charge of all youth outreach programs for all ticketed sports. Identified new groups, cultivated relationships and crafted new programs that enabled existing groups to be more engaged.- Planned, coordinated, and led marketing and promotional efforts for all sports events. Programs resulted in the two largest student attendances in school history.- Assisted in managing the promotional budget and managed promotional calendars for all ticketed sports.- Worked with sales team and assisted with ticket sales and customer service.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

- Promoted USF Basketball games to students by actively engaging with students on campus. - Coordinated with youth baseball leagues to promote USF Baseball and to increase youth attendance at USF games.- Assisted with Season Ticket and Seat Gift renewals helping bring in over $10,000 in revenue in two-month period.- Assisted in brainstorming, obtaining vendor quotes, and planning promotional programs and events for upcoming season.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

- Managed RSVPs and assisted with registration, event planning, and coordination for scholarship/stewardship events including Achievement Award Program Dinner and Leadership Award Luncheon, the largest donor event of the year.- Provided hospitality and assistance at donor cultivation events in the CAA Suite for all five home football games.- Coordinated and managed numerous mailings and solicitations including endowment mailings, invitations, society letters and holiday cards. Worked within Excel to update and clean up spreadsheets thereby increasing giving and donations.- Analyzed data and created giving analysis including amounts, sources, highest giving areas, and averages by appeal code.- Assisted scholars with speech preparation, presentation assistance, and event information.

Miami Lakes, Fl, Us

- Assisted with planning, coordination and/or operations of more than 20 community and Orange Bowl Festival events. Worked on-site and served as the Orange Bowl Committee staff representative at numerous events.- Served as liaison between Stanford University, Stanford Host Committee and Orange Bowl Committee staff to facilitate operational logistics. Selected to stay at hotel with Stanford University to ensure all needs were met.- Updated, maintained and coordinated printing of the Participant Guide, Hospitality Guide, Host Committee Playbook, Game Officials Manual and Communications Manual, which are key guides used during Bowl Week.- Responsible for administration and utilization of 95 courtesy cars, which were used for all events during Bowl Week.- Worked with Orange Bowl Committee Members, a key stakeholder, to enable their wishes in a realistic manner and within budget.- Managed Orange Bowl 50th Reunion attendance, communications and event logistics.- Managed hotel arrangements and communications between Game Officials and Orange Bowl staff. Coordinated Game Officials Dinner and Reception.- Coordinated team snack nights and post-game meal at Sun Life Stadium within budget.- Assisted in the hiring and supervising of junior hosts.- Administered purchase orders and budgets to ensure accuracy.- Took over responsibilities of Team Operations Coordinator who became ill during Bowl Week.

- Researched, developed and launched Youth Football Program, which positively affects community and charitable partners. Authored comprehensive manual including recommendations for 2010 planning and event. - Planned and organized FanFest, including budget development, space assignment and vendor participation. - Prepared 2009 competitive bowl ticket price analysis and researched government ethics gift rule for founders, which provided guidance for pricing tickets. - Developed and planned a variety of Bowl activities, including ticket manifest and seating map, promotional events and watching parties. Responsible for a variety of support activities. - Volunteer Coordinator Fall 2009

- Alerted GM of earlier draft decisions thereby increasing his decision time during 2008 NBA Draft.- Created draft profiles for more than 60 players to assist management in decision-making.- Entered scouting reports into database assuring all data for follow-up was available for management.- Updated scout ticket database for conference and NCAA tournaments for accurate record keeping.- Prepared expense reports for scouts, verified charges and executed player charge-backs.

- Listened to and synopsized corporate earnings and Congressional conference calls during earnings report season saving management time.- Compared actual financial statements to sell side estimates to see how well our models predicted the market.- Completed appropriate paperwork requested by broker dealers to create new accounts.- Talked to investors to secure their investor paperwork for prime broker and administrator accounts.- Researched projects as needed relieving other employees of excess work.- General administrative work and technology troubleshooting saving time and money for the company.

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Master Of Arts (M.A.), Sport Management

Bachelor’S Degree, Sport, Event, And Hospitality Management

High School Degree, High School/Secondary Diplomas And Certificates