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Bend, Or, Us

- Working directly with clients to identify how AI can be leveraged to save their business time and money.- End to end project management for AI powered software solutions.- Leveraging industry-leading automation platforms for reliable, high-value outputs (e.g. OpenAI, Zapier, Make, Voiceflow, Voiceglow, Pinecone DB, Twilio, etc.)

San Diego, California, Us

**This project produced an 84% reduction in email inbox management costs for Hyperspect.ai (from $0.23/email to $0.035/email).**- Developed an advanced AI-driven email management system to automate lead categorization and response generation, enhancing lead engagement efficiency.- Engineered custom API endpoints in Flask, facilitating real-time email processing and integration with Slack and Calendly for streamlined communication and scheduling.- Implemented OpenAI's language models and a Pinecone database to maintain consistency in response tone and style, significantly reducing token costs through a bespoke thread management system.

Developed and implemented a sophisticated automated trading program leveraging genetic programming, machine learning, and real-time data for predictive modeling of stock price movements. The program operates with flexibility in temporal granularity, allowing for customizable prediction intervals (e.g., 1 minute, 5 minutes, 1 hour).Key Accomplishments:- Optimized custom technical trading indicators using genetic programming and historical data for enhanced predictive accuracy.- Incorporated top-performing indicators as features in the dataset for model training.- Conducted rigorous model assessment, estimating performance metrics.- Upon satisfactory results, re-trained deployment models on the entire dataset for live trading.- Calculated and implemented optimal trading parameters based on the trained models.- Integrated the model with Interactive Brokers' TWS trading platform for seamless live trading execution.- Implemented end-of-day processes to save stock-specific trade records for performance tracking and analysis.- Maintained and updated the model and optimal parameters, regularly saving them to a local directory for reference and future improvements.

Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nl

FruitPunch AI is a global AI for Good Community with more than 1500 AI engineers in over 70 countries. FruitPunch AI crowdsources AI solutions for impact organizations, like detecting poachers with autonomous drones for rangers in South Africa or detecting wildfires with ESA, etc. By teaching applied AI through real-world ‘for Good’ challenges, FruitPunch AI is building a global community of engineers willing and able to solve humanity’s greatest challenges.

Washington, Dc, Us

-Collaborated with the World Bank on a refugee support program in Burundi aimed at benefiting host community populations of up to 2,130,430 and refugee populations of an estimated 85,000.-Facilitated client communications, bi-weekly updates and internal workflow assignment while developing survey instruments to quantify program impacts on nutrition and microenterprises.-Designed and co-authored a research paper that estimated heterogeneous treatment effects across refugee demographics using logit and causal forest models with double machine learning.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

- Served as client-facing product manager for week long active travel trips for c-suite clientele. - Ad-hoc problem solving while managing collaborations between internal and external multicultural teams.- Extensive stakeholder and client engagement experience: assuring positive customer experiences, facilitating presentations, setting expectations, partner recruitment, contract negotiation and onboarding.- Leveraged performance data to identify trends and drive product improvement by 17% in my first year.

Responsible for authoring lesson plans and activities to facilitate the standardized curriculum supplied to groups of 4-20 students in both public and private schools.

Identified solutions and created strategies for environmentally conscious infrastructure and operations. Waste management, energy efficiency education, and responsible material sourcing were my areas of focus.

The Student Senate was responsible for allocating the $12+ million in student fees for University of Oregon departments of operation, student groups, event management and alumni organizations.

Master Of Science - Ms, Econometrics And Quantitative Economics

Bachelor'S Degree, Environmental Studies