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Seattle, Washington, United States

- Improves localization efficiency and empowers scalability for Meta products and content, including providing solutions and frameworks (process, technical, analytical) that are resilient and adaptable- Orchestrates planning and reporting for a set of major cross-functional working groups in the localization org, building frameworks and guidance for focusing on strategy, assessing business risk, and prioritizing. - Leads cross-functional working group focused on efficiency and scalability, including driving and authoring roadmaps, empowering the team to deliver in a timely manner, providing subject matter expertise on a variety of topics (including technical and metrics related), and supporting in resolution of roadblocks- Identifies and solves business problems with a data-driven approach, including identifying the data necessary and authoring data sets and pipelines.Previous projects-Developed framework for collecting and prioritizing business needs of key stakeholders in a rapidly growing localization org. Partnered closely with engineering teams to influence roadmapping and difficult prioritization decisions. -Provided localization expertise to the Reality Labs (then, AR/VR) organization to empower international launches. Established localization best practices for new workflows while ensuring cohesion with overall internationalization infrastructure.-Partnered with stakeholders to identify best practices for product localization, identify and prioritize both technical and process issues, and continuously sought out and implemented opportunities to optimize workflows.-Provided regional expertise on the Japanese market, in partnership with in-region teams -Provided data-driven insights to the wider localization team on opportunities to efficiently scale.

Menlo Park, California, United States

Monterey, Ca

-Perform a variety of administrative tasks requiring a high level of organization and attention to detail, including: processing applications to multiple non-degree and professional programs, Responding to client inquiries both by phone and email, maintaining and create organizational systems-Graphic design: design brochures for professional programs-Marketing: Assist in producing marketing language for professional translation technology courses.

Boston University

-Lab manager: performed administrative duties for a growing lab of approximately 15 people.Redesigned lab’s workflow to increase efficiency and decrease risk of human error. To that end: automated scheduling of daily participants, centralized and improved system of participant data storage and management to ensure data integrity.-Managed and oversaw a variety of complex research projects: interacted with 5-7 participants a day, exercising and developing customer service skills-Curated and analyzed data for multi-day experiments, including writing scripts designed to process and analyze participant answers.-Programmed new experiments, primarily in Python

-Designed cognitive neuroscience based projects in Brown’s Aging and Cognition Lab. -Research audiovisual processing in aging and Alzheimer’s: gathered data, tested subjects (young and elderly) on a variety of cognitive tasks, programmed experiments in E-Prime and MatLab, and analyzed data in Excel and SPSS. -Obtained competitive UTRA (Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award) grant money in summer 2015. -Wrote honors thesis as a culmination of this work.

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Psychology

Activities and Societies: Sigma Xi Research Honors SocietyBachelor of Science in Psychology with Honors. Magna Cum Laude. GPA: 3.96 Honors.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Translation And Localization Management

Master of Arts in Translation and Localization Management. Japanese and English.

Kyoto Consortium For Japanese Studies (Kcjs)

Studied Japanese language and culture at Doshisha University in Kyoto for a semester through the KCJS program.