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California, United States

San Bruno, Ca, Us

San Jose, Ca, Us

Established and led Bizops team aligning functional orgs and identifying and delivering critical cross-functional strategic initiatives for the company. Includes company strategy, business intelligence data analysis, fundraising, and corporate forecasting/planning.Previously: Director, Strategy and Operations in Global Operations; Chief of Staff to CEO

Austin, Texas, Us

Post-MBA leadership development program with rotations across business areas, functional roles and industries. Experience including:- Market entry and monetization strategy for new cloud solutions business- Operations Program Management for vertically integrated medical device NPI- Digital Health start-up business operations strategy, process and policy definition and management

Arteixo, A Coruña, Es

Developed cross-channel fast fashion demand forecasting algorithms leveraging machine learning to predict in store sales using e-commerce datasets.

Pasadena, Ca, Us

- Coordinated review preparation efforts and assembled final packages for project milestone reviews.- Maintained relationships between project engineers, management, partners, and the customer at all levels- Generated critical functional analysis models and description documentation to secure project funding

Pasadena, Ca, Us

- Established rover system-level cognizance to support operations team responsibilities for safe plan execution.- Managed and automated the anomaly response process to ensure timely closure of issues discovered during operations

Pasadena, Ca, Us

- Served as the primary interface between subsystem technical leads, project management and customers for the CAO, AVIRISng and NEON imaging spectrometer instrument projects.- Managed the system configuration, technical resources, issue tracking and overall project-level technical development.- Led requirements development, verification and validation efforts and data analysis for system delivery checkout.- Conducted system requirements and delivery reviews throughout product development and generated summary reports.- Designed an optical test-bench system to demonstrate new imager technology for future Mars mission use.- NASA Small Business Innovation Research program subject matter expert reviewer for Focal Plane Array based imagers.- Performed instrument calibration and constructed calibration systems for radiometric and spectral calibration activities.- Designed, tested and managed development for the On-Board Calibration Source for multiple imaging spectrometer instruments.- Designed and operated automated testing systems for focal plane array imagers and calibrations sources and detectors.- Coordinated remote sensing flight operations during summer flight seasons including the NASA Deepwater Horizon Oilspill response effort.

Conducted, published and presented groundbreaking research in fiber optic telecommunications systems achieving record signal gain and integrity in two pump fiber optic parametric amplifiers using Stimulated Brillouin Scattering suppression techniques.Integrated, customized and packaged electrical and photonic systems into packaged components for experimental setups.Architected fiber optic experimental test setups with automated control and data processing using MATLAB and GPIB.

Houston, Texas, Us

-Designed and tested DSP-based wireless data system measuring velocity and movement of an open-hole tractor robot for oil well characterization and exploration-Developed automated pre-integration pressure gauge acceptance test set up for open-hole tractors

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration, Management And Operations

Master’S Degree, Sm, Engineering Systems - Manufacturing And Supply Chain

M.S, Electrical Engineering - Applied Optics

B.S, Electrical Engineering - Photonics Concentration