Working to Find, Fund, and Fuel small businesses.

This was my second stint at NGP VAN, the leading provider of technology to progressive political campaigns. I returned for the 2016 election and beyond, solving problems at our peak cyclical usage, and moving quickly to develop new advocacy products after the election.As a software engineer and team lead, I led one of the largest teams in the engineering department. My team's responsibilities and successes included driving security and cryptography improvements, developing a cobranded peer-to-peer outreach app for the DNC, and owning the mobile canvassing tools used to achieve over 45 million "door knocks" in the 2016 cycle.

At the Growth Lab of Harvard's Center for International Development, I worked to bring research ideas into practice for policy and investment. My team included software engineers, data scientists, designers, and visualization experts in an environment that mixed academic research, public facing tools, and high level government consulting.Some highlights:* Launched high profile open data visualization websites for the governments of Mexico, Colombia, and Peru* Developed novel datasets allowing extremely detailed industry, employment, and trade data analysis* Worked with high-ranking government agencies, officials, and sponsors such as Mexico’s Chief Minister of Finance* Bridged between tech team and diverse stakeholders including Harvard professors, outside researchers, government officials, and project sponsors from Mexico, Colombia and Peru as well as the US International Trade Commission

Helping progressives win elections, building civic organizing tools and helping other engineers do amazing work.

Sterling Pacific Group is a China focused international strategic advisory that works hand-in-hand with our clients to develop creative solutions to complex challenges such as accessing technology, sourcing capital, and entering the global marketplace.

• Architected and coded a java application to aid multinational companies in global IT risk management planning • Provided visual, multi-factor search of 25,000+ interlinked records from three XML files • Applied streaming XML parsing, multi-threading, and indexing to minimize latency while managing memory use • Used Apache POI to export search results from java runtime objects to .xls for a comprehensive matrix view of the selected data, and to an .xls object-mapping format for uploading data into the OpenPages platform

Econometric Analysis of Chinese Character Learning on Skritter.com• Modeled the probability that a learner will forget a character at a certain time after review. A key factor underpinning the site's spaced repetition algorithm learning system.• Analyzed over 15 million data points from 3,000+ learners• Created database (mySQL), web dashboard (php, jQuery, JavaScript, HTML, CSS), export scripts (PHP, SQL), and econometric software scripting (STATA) to support research and analysis• Successfully identified inconsistencies between algorithm design and actual outcomes, demonstrating opportunity for enhanced learner productivity

• Bought and sold $15,000 worth of used textbooks from students• In order to use my time more effectively I wrote some code to collect data from campus bookstore, schedule of classes, and final exam schedule. • Armed with insight from the data I collected, I went out and focused my time buying books based on class size, book price, department, course level, and exam date.

• Taught 166 students in 4 classes at a prestigious private school• This elite school rated me as a top teacher on a staff of nearly 50.

• Ran marketing drive that secured favorable contracts for 12 teachers with prestigious schools and government organizations• Resolved employment, housing, arrival, visa, and police registration difficulties for inaugural participants• Relied heavily on self-studied Mandarin Chinese throughout marketing calls, negotiations, and high pressure situations• Created a Flash-based website to support recruitment and marketing efforts

• Led a team of Mandarin-speaking professionals to overhaul product design and user interface for a distance learning system • Advised the CEO of My Big School on Western design and user interface principles