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San Francisco, Ca, Us

Los Angeles, California, United States

San Francisco Bay Area

Notable Accomplishments* Built WeWork's internal Engineering Access Control tool -- Concierge -- reducing onboarding and offboarding time from 3-4 days to a mere 15 minutes.* Developed custom corporate integrations between WeWork's Kubernetes clusters and every external engineering service WeWork Engineers used, in both Typescript and Golang for WeWork's backend.* Achieved a 95% reduction in SRE tickets within a span of 5 months through automation.* Spearheaded the migration of WeWork.Com from vanilla Javascript to React, leading to a 25% surge in checkout flow performance.* Designed and built a user interface for WeWork's internal kubernetes cluster that was used by 95% of all wework engineers weekly within 1 month of launch.* The same UI improved mean time to respond to outages by 30%.* Led a total redesign of engineer access to services in response to SOX requirements, and bridged the gap between engineering and legal. My department passed SOX checks because of this work.* As WeWork shrunk, I implemented open-source solutions to what were once custom internal tools that reduced the number of sprints between rolling out new features in half.

Foster City, California

San Francisco Bay Area

Associate at a boutique accounting and tax controversy firm. Brought in to provide IRS tax interpretation, state and federal tax litigation for clients and general business law management: contract, risk assessment, and liability control. Provides Federal and state tax compliance, general ledger accounting services, accounting and tax planning for businesses and individuals with $100,000 to $10million in income.Defends IRS audits, and performs tax compliance and IRS and FTB settlements.Specialized in Registered Domestic Partners and the peculiar tax consequences they face, resulting from ever-changing law and the most recent Supreme Court decisions that change the IRS's positions monthly.Create year-end P&L, and balance sheets, and federal and local tax returns. Provide business creation and consultation for individuals and businesses changing their entities and restructuring.

Pinole, California

Tax litigation, audit defense, and tax representation before the IRS and State agencies— including payroll tax audits, California registered domestic partnerships, and residency disputes. Performed monthly AR process improvement, client tax compliance and recordkeeping.

Book keeping, tax planning and tax preparation for high net worth individualsDefended IRS audits, and performed tax compliance and IRS and FTB settlements for small businesses and individuals.

Oakland, Ca

Fellow under long time General Counsel Brad Caftel. Provided legal support to the diverse teams of Insight. Taught Legal Education on the use of LLCs for small and new businesses. Wrote on the legal creation of Immigrant Co-Operatives.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Solved IRS and state tax disputes with low income clients for an IRS sponsored Tax Clinic. To date, reduced the total tax liability of over 15 clients by a combined $150,000.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Researched, analyzed, prepared, and edited memos with legal recommendations regarding New York filing benefit requirements, HIPPA qualifications, Kentucky inducement laws, and more. Concentrated in the Medicare and Retirement Legal department, with focus providing legal analysis, state law analysis, and interpretation of CMS guidance and regulations

Interned with Chief Judge Perez and Judge Sanberg; Researched and produced judicial opinions and bench memos regarding property tax appraisals, Minnesota income tax residency, and the deductibility of gambling losses.

Lead software development teams at a NATO Secret classified communications company; developed work schedules and budgets; met clients and advised senior management; prepared monthly, quarterly, and yearly project financial statements.

Supervisor of security at a Big 10 college campus

J.D., Taxation And Business Law, 3.412

Activities and Societies: Asylum Law Project (Treasurer), T.O.R.T, Moot Court

English, English Literature And Writing