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San Francisco, CA, US

San Francisco, CA, US

• Co-founder and organizer of a vibrant community (of 250+) at the intersection of technology, science, art, and ancient wisdom. We are a neuroscience-led, heart-centered group of designers, builders, and healers.
• Leading building, planning and production for a number of immersive events/installations that center around interacting with biosignals (EEG, EMG, respiration, HRV) via visualizations, lighting, haptics, etc.
• Designing software/hardware that facilitates real-time biofeedback experiences for use in meditation, breathwork and ketamine (& psychedelic) assisted therapy.

San Francisco, California, US

• Led product vision, scoping, requirements gathering and execution of insurance billing pipeline for telehealth weight management visits from inception to stand-up of the program with estimates of ~$50M in ARR
• Owned the scope and development of wearable device integration (HealthKit, Fitbit, Dexcom CGM) within mobile app environment, connecting to challenge/points feature and progress tracking within-app projected to.
• Championed org-wide backend project of mapping out and assigning permissions for 18 different user-types across three portals, enabling HIPAA data privacy requirements

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Steered end-to-end product development for five customer accounts, leading scoping, user research, and implementation, to deliver software solutions for clinical trials across web, Android, and iOS platforms.
• Led requirements gathering & documentation for product solutions, bringing engineering, product, design, clinical ops., localization and business dev. teams and the client into alignment.
• Scoped product vision for internal AI tooling for documentation semantic search using Python (LangChain)
• Proactively addressed backend/frontend challenges with a cross-functional team of engineers, designers and Agile PMs, leveraging tools such as JavaScript/HTML, ensuring smooth execution across prominent enterprise.
• Pioneered product strategy for seamless integration of EMR software (Epic, Medidata) into decentralized clinical trial data collection processes, yielding $1.6 million in annual development savings.

Mountain View, California, US

• Drove product vision for internal cross-functional stakeholders (CX, data science, product), making tradeoff decisions about Customer Success resource allotment using multi-stream data sources.
• Executed requirements gathering & documentation, UXR for operational, CX health dashboard, harnessing ELT processes to furnish actionable insights for internal stakeholders using SQL, R, and Python.
• Championed initiatives that bolstered data quality and consistency, resulting in a 20% improvement in time management and forecasting culminating in a 42% reduction in JIRA completion time and significant cost savings.

Mountain View, California, US

• Managed engineering, data science, product and client stakeholders, leading cross-functional alignment on product features dev., crafting reports that increased new feature adoption by 43%.
• Led technical implementation & operations for 12 enterprise customers (S&P50), leveraging HRIS data expertise to inform best practice for advanced people analytics – drove $900,000 in account expansions across multiple.
• Analyzed customer insights data, resulting in a 35% increase in “manager effectiveness” across customers (SQL, Excel, R)
• Conducted UXR for multiple internal/external product features with end-users, generating x-func. reports and facilitating feature adoption with customers.

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Spearheaded data acquisition, analysis and vis. for fMRI study of neurological outcomes of COVID-19, resulting in two publications) (Python & R)
• Forecasted and executed four clinical research studies against strict timelines, managing/interfacing with teams of research engineers, clinicians, operations staff & post-docs
• Led technical donor relations, presenting complex research protocols & results via (Figma) mockup to donors and driving $2.1 million in lab donations.
• Led clinical UX research and managed intern for a wearable and smartphone app for depression, advocating for users in product iteration cycles (first wearable device of its kind)
• Formatted, launched, scheduled, managed and ran the first schedule-1 drug study in human subjects at Stanford University, working closely with regulatory agencies, MDs, and principal investigators

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Led interview-based data collection covering sensitive topics including psychiatric, medical and drug use history. Promoted to management position within 10 months of start date.
• Conducted 200+ hours of fMRI patient testing requiring technical competence, troubleshooting, multitasking, and maintaining rapport through 8-hour sessions.

• Created, led a team developing a B2B service app for low-touch carbon footprint tracking
• Performed in top 5 of 33 startups within Harvey Mudd’s Incubator’s Demo Day (HMCInc)
• Collaborated with HMC Board members, angel investors, professors and school admin staff
• Roadmapped, wireframed and built a basic front-end (SwiftUI) gained experience with states, views, JSON and general UI, designed and implemented an API back-end by a Google Cloud MySQL database run on DataGrip

Claremont, California, CA, US

• Exploring Structural Neural Correlates of Humor Creativity – Research Assistant to Prof. Ori Amir
• Building on Professor Amir’s work at the frontier of the neuroscience of humor
• Collecting fMRI & structural brain data in professional comedians while performing cognitive task of assigning humorous captions to cartoons.
• Added my own variables of interest; will be giving subjects UPPS-P (short form), BIS/BAS & HEXACO scale to assess emotional regulation, mood, trait impulsivity, internal locus of control & personality traits. (Due to.
• Utilized SPM12 functionalities, CAT12, Marsbar toolbox in order to run voxel-based morphometry and surface-based morphometry on structural MRI data, extracting measurements of volume & surface area from professional.
• Wrote & edited first-author manuscript, which was published in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (April 2021). Presented results at Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor Conference (April 2021)

Claremont, California, CA, US

As a Neuroscience Department Liaison at Pomona College, I serve as a gateway in communication between students and professors, listening and responding to concerns from both sides. As a successful liaison, I am well-versed in all aspects of the department. I think creatively to garner interest in Neuroscience from incoming classes who’ve yet to declare.

Claremont, California, CA, US

Upholding the values of the student handbook and giving students who have been given sanctions by the school a fair and thorough evaluation and trial in order to deem whether or not the school's punishment is acceptable. As a Judicial Board Member, I sit on a panel of students and deans who listen to cases and vote on sanctions and appraise whether school.

Claremont, California, CA, US

Used genetic crossing and other lab techniques (such as electron microscopy and co-immunoprecipitation) to isolate and examine mutant C. elegans for particular genes of interest that impacted brood size and egg-shell formation. This work will eventually be compiled into a publication and applied to targetting and inhibiting genetically similar, but.

Seattle, WA, US

• Worked on project building 3D morphological reconstructions of multi-patch human cortical cell clusters; used features from these reconstructions to characterize potential synapse locations. Compared inhibitory (pyr. →.
• Dendritic projection radius estimation using machine learning regression techniques trained on single-cell data taken from the Allen Brain Atlas database
• Euclidean & segmental distance calculator between axonal and dendritic projections of neighboring cells, thresholded at 20 um.
• Marker file creation for use in Vaa3D in order to visualize synapse locations between the reconstructed neurons
• Electrophysiology data processing using deconvolution to compare current clamp and voltage clamp EPSP/IPSP signals in inhibitory/excitatory connections

Claremont, CA, US

Part of the Applied Mind & Health Lab at Claremont-McKenna College under Professor Stacy DoanOn NIH-funded research team; psychoneuroendocrinology & psychosocial factors (family, poverty, culture) impacting physical and mental health

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Working under Emeran Mayer, M.D, Ph.D., Exec. Dir. of Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience & Professor of Medicine
• Researched brain-gut-microbiome axis in relationship to IBS patients in CBT tx. Writing/editing for high-impact journals; pubs in preparation.
• Worked in multidisciplinary team under high-pressure deadlines; presented findings to world-class academics in “cross-examining” environment.
• QC-ing brain-scans using freesurfer6 & MRICON; running analyses on clinical & neuroimaging data using CONN, MATLAB, SPSS, R.Involved with research in the realm of digestive diseases such as Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

Claremont, CA, US

leadership & program planning for events at CMC; contacting & engaging panelists

First author of two published Neuropsychology research articles in the Journal for Young Investigators (JYI), exploring the impact of violent video games on attention and concentration abilities in minimal use players after brief exposure (45 minutes.)

Sierra Madre, California, US

· Consulting start-up providing advanced psychometrics, data science, modern psychology, machine learning & AI consults to big industry clients.· Lead and completed a project using R, SPSS, Python, and to conduct factor analyses on survey-collected data in order to improve and personalize media recommendations for Hulu. · Played a role in forming.

Los Angeles, CA, US

Worked under Suraiya Rasheed, M.D., Director of the Cancer Research Laboratory, investigating the relationship between embryonic proteins involved in the early stages of testicular cancer and HIV/AIDS using proteomics and bioinformatics. Professor Rasheed was one of the first researches to ever study the proteomics of HIV/AIDS and has an extensive protein.