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Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Washington, Dc, Us

Manage lab’s projects that improve the digital delivery and accessibility of public services such as SNAP and Medicaid. Ensure the lab meets deadlines, organize meetings, and maintain relationships with partner organizations. Conduct data analysis to understand how the services’ clients experience administrative burdens and recommend improvements to mitigate those burdens.

Detroit, Michigan, Us

Structured and crafted detailed engineering requirements to ensure successful launch of client’s product offering. Crafted data analysis plan to evaluate whether the product will meet the client’s goals and identify potential areas for improvement. Facilitated timely feature delivery by identifying and removing blockers for the development team and leading adoption of agile practices. Wrote product instructions and documentation for legal compliance.

Pasadena, California, Us

Managed the launch and product development lifecycle of Near’s new flagship human movement data platform, including defining the product roadmap based on business value, company goals, customer impact, and engineering effort. Collaborated with engineers and other company departments for successful, on-time delivery of key features and used data to evaluate their performance. Developed product strategy by assessing customers’ needs and formulating creative solutions. Wrote product and technical requirements and wireframed new features to gather feedback and facilitate clear team communication. Supported marketing efforts by creating client webinars and product demos. Established a clear and regular product release cycle and played a leading role in improving product processes and creating a strong team dynamic that was critical for success. Managed company softball team.

Pasadena, California, Us

Managed multiple products, including a dashboard, online platform, data reports, and API. Originally part of product team at UberMedia, which was acquired by Near in April 2021.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Prepared and taught weekly, 30-student discussion and lab sections for CS61A: The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Berkeley's introductory computer science course. Helped students develop skills in Python, Scheme, and SQL. Supported the larger, 1500-student course by holding weekly office hours, answering questions online, and grading exams.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Researched potential biases in facial recognition algorithms with goal of recommending means to increase algorithms’ fairness. Developed user experience to raise awareness of facial recognition technologies’ uses and biases in underserved communities.

Emeryville, Ca, Us

Served as product manager for four new features aimed at improving usefulness of company’s real estate agent- and consumer-facing platforms. Managed features that increased company’s data collection to provide better insights, visualized data to communicate a product’s benefits and potential errors, improved consumers’ search experiences, and strengthened platform security. Collaborated closely with developers, designers, researchers, and marketers to bring features to production. Navigated both Scrum and Kanban processes, web and mobile platforms, and local and remote teams.

Developed a signature application, Beacon, that analyzes satellite imagery to determine the safest locations for pilots to make emergency landings. Participated in Berkeley Haas’ selective 2018 LAUNCH accelerator program, validating a scalable business model, building a high-fidelity prototype, and winning first place in mid-program makeathon. Company recognized as one of UC Berkeley’s top startups as recipients of Berkeley Haas’ Dean’s Startup Seed Fund and presenters at Haas Venture Fellows’ VC Connect.

Falls Church, Va, Us

Supported software engineers’ efforts to develop code on two products and ensure proper functionality. Conducted software tests in lab and analyzed trends in data. Made changes to a tool to make collecting data more efficient. Worked with Ada, C++, Perl, assembly language, and Rational ClearCase and documented changes to code. Reviewed in the company's top 10% of performers.

Los Angeles, California, Us

Researched information critical to the growth of early-stage startup that provides an online platform for resolving small claims disputes. Used SQL to analyze data and provide insights that were key to the startup's sales strategy. Assisted with ensuring website functioned properly. Provided creative support, including facilitating the startup's social media campaign, creating unique material for the startup to share with consumers and investors, and helping develop its content marketing strategy. Increased the startup's social media followers by more than 50%.

Advanced Assemblymember’s legislative agenda with projects that impacted more than 460,000 constituents. Drafted annual report and brochure on California’s drought. Coordinated community briefing for more than 100 constituents and local media. Provided on-site support at events and office administrative support.

Gained supervisorial skills managing counselors-in-training and young campers.

Developed customer service skills in catering staff position. Helped with event set-up and clean-up. Waited on tables.

Master Of Public Policy - Mpp

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical Engineering And Computer Sciences

Certificate In Entrepreneurship & Technology