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Redlands, Ca, Us

Washington, Dc, Us

• Led the ongoing design and development of Resource Watch, an open geospatial data platform bringing together over 300 datasets on the most important environmental and social issues facing our planet and society today, as well as several additional products that leveraged Resource Watch data and technology.• Managed, trained, and mentored a team of 2 Product Managers. • Developed product strategy and vision, built product roadmap, translated organization and user needs into technical specifications, prioritized the product backlog, oversaw QA.• Led regular and frequent user testing, soliciting input through dedicated workshops and interviews, and ensured results informed development decisions.• Managed day-to-day interactions with offshore engineers, established priorities, and maintained timelines.• Evangelized the product through external and internal presentations, demos, trainings, and webinars.• Championed and improved product team processes. • Designed Google Analytics tracker to regularly assess KPIs and quantify the success of new features.

Washington, Dc, Us

• Led the ongoing design and development of Resource Watch.• Defined the product strategy and roadmap.• Led work with offshore engineers, setting priorities and maintaining deadlines and budgets.• Maintained the product backlog and prioritized features based on user needs and stakeholder input.• Regularly conducted user research and usability testing.• Presented Resource Watch to stakeholders at conferences; led technical trainings.• Managed the ongoing development of the PREPdata Platform, an initiative of the Partnership for Resilience and Preparedness.

Washington, Dc, Us

• Managed the design and development of PREPdata, a map-based online open-data platform that allows users to access and visualize data for climate adaptation and resilience planning.• Synthesized input from federal government and private sector partners and setting and managing priorities to ensure efficient platform development.• Curated, analyzed, and prepared vector and raster data for inclusion in both PREPdata and Resource Watch, WRI’s institutional open data platform.• Managed the development of a pilot study aiming to automatically generate global urban land use land cover maps using satellite imagery and machine learning.

Washington, Dc, Us

• Supported the management of the Building Efficiency Accelerator (BEA), a global multi-stakeholder partnership to accelerate the uptake of building efficiency policies and projects in cities and states around the world, part of UN Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL).• Authored a set of case studies on corporate renewable energy procurement in the United States and India.• Lead the organization of the WRI Global Energy Program Retreat with 60+ participants from 6 countries.

Washington, Dc, Us

• Supported the management of the Building Efficiency Accelerator global partnership. • Managed the development of a data visualization tool to identify and prioritize building efficiency policy options for subnational governments.• Developed and implemented the project’s communications strategy, including a bi-monthly newsletter to the project’s 200+ global stakeholders.• Wrote research-driven blog posts on implementation of building efficiency and sustainable development in cities, primarily in emerging economies.

Vienna, Wien, At

The ISEPEI Project aims to bridge the gap between environmental decision-makers and information & communication technologies (ICTs).• Organized and facilitated a series of international training workshops in 2014-15 focused on the application of ICTs in water security and disaster risk reduction, featuring speakers from UN agencies, Google, and Esri. • Wrote, compiled, and edited a training manual for decision-makers: “ICTs for Water Security”.• Presented the project in multiple sessions at the Eye on Earth Summit in Abu Dhabi, an international conference with over 750 delegates focused on improving data for sustainable development.• Co-facilitated of two Eye on Earth working groups: Eye on Water Security and Eye on Environmental Education, each with over 100 community members.

Vienna, Wien, At

• Conducted primary research on the application of GIS and remote sensing for water resources.• Developed GIS maps for professors’ projects and publications.

New York, Ny, Us

• Performed quantitative analysis on large datasets in all areas of audit, including high-risk areas such as revenue, accounts receivable, and investments.• Conducted financial statement audits for a diverse portfolio of clients, including private and public companies, within the fields of healthcare, government, information technology & finance.

Master’S Degree, Erasmus Mundus Masters

Product Management

Data Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Accounting