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Los Angeles, California, United States

• Perform comprehensive architectural building plan reviews for multiple city governments across the SF Bay Area• Create rigorous feedback comment letters for clients based on building plan analysis to ensure fire and life safety and building code compliance• Provide expert analysis and interpretation of state building codes directly to clients to assist with the project submittal process

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Produced a variety of geospatial data across multiple platforms for a major public utilities company• Modeled utility pole networks in PLS-CADD with wire clearance and sag data output for longspan analysis• Performed manual LiDAR point cloud classification, utility pole network modeling, and encroachment modeling in Pointerra for vegetation encroachment analysis• Created accurate and updated maps of utility pole locations with matched aerial photographs

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Provided continuous high-level services to 15+ Office of Diversion and Reentry clients on at least a weekly basis• Coordinated clients’ release from jail and built service plans with clients to assist clients in locating and maintaining mainstream benefits and permanent housing• Assisted clients with navigating the county criminal justice system• Established rapid-response mental health and substance use crisis management skills to address the needs of a sensitive and hyper-marginalized population• Built strong relationships with clients and service professionals across Los Angeles county from a wide variety of backgrounds• Trained in-depth on Los Angeles County homelessness case management best practices and service provision• Maintained and regularly updated client files and administrative records

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Fostered a positive living and learning environment for students to promote a sense of belonging for 92 residents• Assessed resident needs to design 60+ community engagements with an annual budget of $650• Served on a duty rotation from 8 pm to 7 am to enforce housing rules and regulations to ensure student safety• Counseled and referred residents to resources to meet their educational, physical, emotional, and mental needs

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Coached 3-4 students in individual hour-long sessions weekly focusing on mindfulness and stress management, fostering positive social connections, goal setting, academic skills enrichment, navigating campus resources, and strategies for improving mental health• Provided an empathetic and active listening space for coachees• Identified priority areas in coachees’ lives and provided strategies for well-being based on those areas• Trained in-depth to be sensitive to coaching needs of diverse populations like LGBTQ+, undocumented, transfer, etc. students

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Directed executive board of 4-5 board members• Scheduled and ran over 20 general body meetings including presentations, dialogues, socials, etc.• Planned, organized, and facilitated annual Mixed Heritage Conference at UCLA, attended by 100+ mixed advocates and folks from mixed student unions around California• Responsible for club logistics including booking rooms, communicating/networking with other student organizations, and marketing and outreach via email, social media, etc.• Managed and applied for club budget of over $2,000 annually utilizing school funding sources

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Authored a research paper about historical development of Los Angeles’ Chinatown• Digitized archival collection of newsletters dating from organization’s founding in 1979 to present-day• Photographed and researched 19th-century archive of Chinese grave markers discovered by the Metropolitan Transit Authority• Sorted an archival collection belonging to a past board member and implemented a finding key

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Trained in setting community guidelines and facilitating safe and brave dialogue spaces for diverse groups• Co-facilitated over 10 dialogues on diverse social justice issues for 20+ students, faculty, and administration• Organized speakers and logistics for Intergenerational Activism Summit Los Angeles-based activist panel• Coordinated logistics and multiple dialogue workshops for UCLA Disability Conference centered on experiences of students with disabilities

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Performed data entry for Negin Ghavami, Ph.D. on a study aiming to identify risk and resilience factors for health and academic achievement among LGBTQ+ urban middle school students