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Irvine, CA, US

Newport Beach, California, United States

Newport Beach, California, United States

Newport Beach, California, United States

Newport Beach, California, United States

Newport Beach

Aliso Viejo

Work with the Director of Innovation & Growth to provide thought leadership for companies looking to grow and scale and create funding strategies to help companies secure capital. Prepare and advise startup companies for investor meetings and fundraising.

Newport Beach, CA

• Designed, tested, and deployed advanced analytics projects to solve pressing business issues relating to sales, marketing, product design, customer acquisition, and customer retention.
• Created a deep-learning predictive model for customer attrition and simulated various responsive marketing strategies resulting in an identified opportunity of $30M in retained sales.
• Built a comprehensive process document for decision analytics projects effectively standardizing project deliverables and execution resulting in higher project interpretability and less training costs.

Fontana, CA

• Worked with Senior Vice President of Operations to strategically engineer process improvements, implement automation, and increase plant production quality and volume
• Led a cross-functional team of engineers and technicians to design, fabricate, and implement a molten metal delivery system on schedule. The new system reduced energy cost spending by $10K per month
• Forecasted $300K of potential energy incentives as technical project lead by conducting an energy use audit with external energy consultants. Presented incentive opportunities and realization strategy to CEO
• Improved the workflow of the inventory storage area by designing new storage racks and a new rack layout, increasing inventory turnover by 4%

San Diego

• Oversaw all lab users, championed upgrade & maintenance efforts, utilized lab assets to conduct system tests, and tracked current lab software & hardware configuration. Organized and presented lab tours to high value.
• Collaborated with senior software engineers to write python software that added remote power control capabilities allowing engineers to remotely utilize lab resources and reduce travel time and travel expenses
• Integrated vital Actuator Control hardware into the lab that improved the overall system test spread supplied to the customer. Demonstrated the improved lab capability to high value customers (DARPA officials)
• Implemented a new hardware tracking system that reduced the amount of wasted resources by $100K and increased efficiency of upgrade & maintenance efforts

San Diego

• Designed and executed system test plans for the Fire Scout Vertical Takeoff & Landing UAV, troubleshot system discrepancies, and supplied technical reports to customers
• Organized and presented daily test operation briefings between software, hardware, and test teams that resulted in increased situational awareness and better aligned priorities among all teams
• Integrated a new radar subsystem into the Fire Scout System Integration Lab and engineered the initial system test procedures ahead of schedule by two months and under cost by $15K
• Assessed need for upgraded components in the lab, created a parts list and cost estimate for new equipment, and led the $250K effort to implement upgrades successfully

Los Angeles, CA

• Set-up and supervised on campus events at UCLA. Oversaw operations at Pauley Pavilion and responded to technical issues during UCLA basketball games.
• Led event preparation and execution with a team of students across the UCLA campus
• Utilized group dynamics to achieve maximum efficiency during set-ups and strike-downs

San Bernardino, CA

• Tasked with assisting a structural engineer with a technical report on the maintenance of missile silo blast doors and working with a team of 10 interns to create and maintain a Microsoft Access database.
• Performed a quality check on Abaqus for pressure and temperature data on missile nozzles to verify technical specifications in the report.
• Created a comprehensive database and check-out system for microfilm containing flight test data that was incorporated into the legacy data portion of the Microsoft Access database.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Analytics

Activities and Societies: CMO Merage Real Estate Association, VP External Relations Merage Operations Management AssociationFull time MBA.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Aerospace Engineering