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Mexico City, CDMX, MX

Led the company flagship product team in delivering, amongst others, a modular permission and admin system that established the paradigm for product development in this area.Scaled the first team to implement automated testing as a standard in all new development. Introduced the company's first CI/CD pipelines, increasing deployment efficiency by 300%

New York City Metropolitan Area

I lead our small team of engineers and work closely with our Programs team to create great digital tools and products that enable CSforALL to scale our offerings, share resources, and connect our members to amplify their reach in K12 CS Education. My responsibilities in this role range from aligning cross-functional stakeholders on vision and how to get.

Greater New York City Area

CSforALL is a hub for the national Computer Science for All movement that works to enable all students in grades K-12 to achieve computer science literacy as an integral part of their educational experience.I managed requirements for web partner and aligned cross-functional project stakeholders to define and deliver 2 major expansions of member application.

Pittsburgh, PA

• Used Javascript and Squarespace editor to create custom website functionality, including password-protected teacher resources that enabled exclusive business offering
• Prototyped digital assessment solution using Google Quizzes and Sheets for initial digital assessment iteration to ease access to growing client base.

Pittsburgh, PA

• ​Coded data-parser to measure inter-reliability using Python’s CSV module to optimize internal process efficiency.
• ​Created behavioral categorization method to study the use of Ed-tech for final round competitor of Xprize global learning challenge.
• Performed qualitative analysis on 20+ hour-long videos to see if students can successfully learn without teacher guidance.

Pittsburgh, PA

• Coded app to support documentation and feedback practices in local extracurricular programs partnered with Architecture school.
• Implemented UI and event-handling logic with React Native (JS). From September to December 2017, designed the application to help support learners and teachers:
• Conducted User need-finding research and collated insights in presentation to Assemble stakeholders
• Created and tested prototypes, iterating on user feedback, synthesized overall insights and design in final Stakeholder presentation, where we were encouraged to continue development

Mexico City Area, Mexico

Developed Assessment methods to infer cognitive traits based on in-game behavior across many educational videogames.Assisted in experimental design for two Validation studies with $10,000 total budget with local universities.Gave company-wide presentation with strategic improvements in integrating Learning Science and adaptivity into the Game Design process

Bahamas

• Maintained the aquaponics system: balanced chemicals in water, harvesting, seeding new crops, feeding fish & cleaning.
• Ran systems diagnostics and presented improvements suggestions to management team.
• Helped expand growing capacity by building foundation for new growbed.
• Led educational trips for local children to teach them about local marine life.