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California, United States

Palo Alto, California, United States

• Organizational Leadership: Serve as a member of the Senior Leadership team. Contribute to organizational strategy and collaborate effectively across functional teams.
• Capacity Building: Assessed current resources and led change that resulted in both a 75% cost savings and improved ability to increase automation and configure additional features as needed to improve efficiency..
• Project Management: Oversee the end-to-end processing and external review of 300+ certification applications annually. Identify and implement opportunities for process and workflow improvement.
• Data Management and Evaluation: Developed data governance. Standardized application fields to enable streamlined data reporting. Performed large data migrations, cleaning and transforming large amounts of data..
• Departmental Administration: Lead Certification Department by establishing goals and action plans, monitoring progress, and ensuring timelines and deliverables are met. Manage annual budget of ~$300,000. Streamlined.
• Team Management: Hire and manage staff, providing coaching and support. Manage external technology contractors and oversee management of ~40 external reviewers.

• Project Management: Oversaw the development, and launch of a new certification program. Established and maintained processes, milestones, and timelines.
• Interdepartmental Collaboration: In a matrixed management setting, coordinated across departments and with external contractors to ensure a centralized focus on priorities in order to meet rigorous deadlines. Set.
• Application Evaluation: Formalized evaluation rubric and scoring methodology (logic scoring of preference methodology). Led training for external reviewers. Performed quality assurance reviews and answered reviewer.
• Training Delivery: Designed and implemented staff training on the new certification program.
• External Communications: Served as primary point of contact about WHC certification. Synthesize materials and convey relevant information to various target audiences. Explained biological, procedural, and logistical.

• Client Engagement and Support: Consulted with corporate sites about their habitat conservation work and certification applications. Implemented customized support for corporate habitat enhancement efforts.
• Application Evaluation: Reviewed hundreds of grant and certification applications.
• Data Collection: Developed method for automatically collecting data from application reviews.
• Internal Coordination: Maintained accurate departmental records. Addressed informational needs of other departments.

• Research and Analysis: Conducted research and wrote reports about wildlife habitat enhancement projects for corporate sites.
• Environmental Communications: Synthesize materials and convey relevant information to various target groups, including lay audiences. Authored 25 technical reports on habitat enhancement projects.
• Application Review: Reviewed and evaluated grant and certification applications.

• Project Implementation: Conducted zoo keeping activities, behavioral observations, and trainings with great apes.
• Data Management: Managed data for a longitudinal multi-institution research project. Extracted data on gorilla behavior from historic field notes.
• Educating: Gave educational talks to the public on apes, habitat conservation, and orangutan cognition.

Master Of Science (Ms), Zoo Conservation Biology

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Environmental Science