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Cupertino, California, United States

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

Led team of project managers on deployments of new technology for utility customers in the U.S., Europe, and Australia, enabling integration of hundreds of megawatts of renewable energy onto the grid while achieving 100%+ year-over-year revenue growth and 95%+ customer satisfaction scores.

San Francisco Bay Area

Improved efficiency and output from a resource-constrained team by standardizing project controls processes (related to budget tracking, status updates, project schedules, and key customer requirements) and rolled out a “Quarterly Sync” process to set and monitor high-priority 90-day goals with direct reports.

San Francisco Bay Area

Developed customer satisfaction evaluation program to quantitatively measure customer satisfaction that was praised by an external ISO 9001 auditor. Solved an urgent, complex, and highly-stressful international trade problem that kept a critical $1M+ project alive and led to repeat business opportunities with a top customer. Developed a relationship and onboarded an external logistics partner that prevented the problem from occurring again.

San Francisco, Ca

Helped build a new project management and business process improvement (Lean Six Sigma) department.Managed cross-functional process improvement projects, including implementation of customer relationship management (CRM) and digital asset management (DAM) systems.Interviewed team members, analyzed risk-benefit tradeoffs of a reorganization, and recommended transformation from a siloed structure to a shared services model. Obtained buy-in from senior management and executed change management plan.Led the development and public launch of the multimedia 2015 annual report.

San Francisco, Ca

Worked with teams across multiple departments to overhaul the design and functionality of a public website and a game about monetary policy. Facilitated rapid product refinements by gathering a range of perspectives, prototyping, iterating, and building consensus around solutions.Produced briefings about monthly Board of Directors meetings and quarterly Economic Advisory Council meetings for policymakers on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and researched and responded to economic questions from private-sector CEOs and CFOs.Selected by senior management to manage workloads of 15 Research Associates. Provided coaching on communication, prioritization, and time management. Increased engagement by redistributing work across groups; resulting improvements in efficiency allowed staff reduction by one full-time position.Led an 18-person team on fact-checking of 30 speeches by the President and built an internal product to help streamline the process. Trained staff in other departments on the process by request of the SVP of communications.

San Francisco, Ca

Co-authored a report about the impact of sequestration on unemployment insurance (UI) claims data for the Chairman of the Federal Reserve System.Developed cloud-based macroeconomic forecast infrastructure in six months using Visual Basic to seamlessly integrate Excel, Word, and a user interface. Implementation of the new infrastructure reduced required labor inputs by more than 50%.Established procedure and motivated three Research Associates to perform regular maintenance of back-end infrastructure, in SAS and Stata, of a data-intensive public product on a six-week refresh cycle.Surveyed business executives and wrote about economic conditions in 16 releases of the Beige Book. Proposed, planned, and executed a yearlong project to phase in a web-based survey, which cut costs and resulted in improved data quality, response rates, and analytical capability.

San Francisco, Ca

Wrote code to perform statistical analyses on a variety of panel datasets with up to 10 million observations. Creative technical decisions led to a publication and co-authorship of a working paper.Balanced concurrent long-term and short-term, occasionally high-stress, and extremely detail-oriented projects, meeting deadlines and consistently exceeding expectations of both team members and managers. Led 2012 new grad recruitment filling several open positions in the international and finance groups.

La Jolla, Ca

Worked for four academic quarters as a TA for one lower division and four upper division economics courses (Basic Macroeconomics, Economics of Mexico, and Intermediate Microeconomics A, B & C): Presented advanced topics such as the Implicit Function Theorem, the Weierstrass Theorem, and Lagrangian optimization. Assisted 80-270 students per quarter to engage with course material through weekly discussion sections and office hours. Received excellent student reviews and professor feedback, specifically after midterm review sessions in large lecture halls.

La Jolla, Ca

Created presentation-quality digital price quotes to promote sales and increase operational efficiency. Reduced office chaos with development of detailed spreadsheets to monitor business transactions over time. Efforts contributed to employer achieving best sales month of career during summer 2010.

San Francisco, Ca

Collaborated on projects with the business intelligence team, prepared individual tax returns, and analyzed balance sheets and portfolio returns for hedge fund clients. Created communications for the executive committee that resulted in plans for a website overhaul. Invited back by managing partner for full-time employment after graduation.

B.S., Management Science, Minor, Environmental Studies, 3.9/4.0, Summa Cum Laude

President of Alpha Epsilon Pi, DJ at KSDT Radio

Master'S Level Coursework In Economics And Climate Change Science

Education record

Varsity tennis co-captain, 2D art senior award