Jerad Acosta Email & Phone Number

Palo Alto, California, United States

I started as a tutor here and am currently a tutor education manager. I provide resources and organize training materials for the tutors that I facilitate. I help my team grow into effective tutors and nurture successful relationships with their students.I am a very passionate advocate of education and enthusiast of the education system - particularly with respect to online resources and learning techniques.I have dedicated time to help students suffering in the current post COVID academic environment.I work one-on-one with in need students on Mathematics and English Language Arts.I am constantly advancing my education as an educator and mentor.I stay informed on state of education in America and where we are going - with an aim to help my students and my tutors be better informed and more capable to succeed in their academic and personal lives.My practice as a tutor to my students and an education manager to my tutors includes building and teaching a growth mindset.I produced a case study on managing college and career readiness attitudes in the tutor-tutee environment.

Punaauia, French Polynesia

- Develop custom, self-standing, data driven dashboards to automate the production of actionable insights- Build intimate relationships with clients and their business in a self styled process aimed at goal of transmitting my love and passion for data to my clients while I receive the fervor for their venture along side a reverence for the value proposition they have managed to produce and offer.Everything starts with a conversation:Engaging clients in casual conversation opens up aspects of a problem or system taken for granted and not questioned. As an outsider my lack of predisposition and biased is leveraged alongside my years of ethnographic research and field work to shed light on ignored aspects which often lead to a significant reduction in time, resources and most importantly cost.~ In Doing So I've ~Reduced assumed longterm or permanent employment roles down to weeks or months or development time, in the production of data driven deliverables that require minimal maintenance from non-domain experts while continuing to serve their purpose with automated processes and interactive dashboards designed to my clients closer to their data and our target of action oriented insights

San Francisco Bay Area

Often working with early stage companies between funding rounds with a need to quickly asses the viability of a given feature set; my broad range of skills and experience in rapid iterative development for IoT solutions, current and up coming product sets and tools made me a high value asset to:- Quickly build and test concepts- Develop non production products for demonstration and funding round value- Work with clients to better understand the IoT landscape, trends and monetization prospects- Set a path for the production engineering team to easily follow as if I had never left.I love technology and obsess over the range of value producing solutions under constant innovation. The Internet of Things current state of evolution in network services, protocols, and abilities provide an incredibly fascinating and lucrative point in the technologies adoption.The proliferation of cheap MCUs, SBC, Connect Services, Online and Distributed platforms make the development of solutions with a focus on rapidly iterated proof of concept pieces one of the most excited things I've been fortunate enough to participate in.

San Francisco Bay Area

Developing global products, with multiple teams, employing every of my abilities while acquiring new experiences and knowledge for those I need. All with the purpose of impact and the success of a team I'm thrilled to support.At DF:I enabled the agile development of high quality and quick to market software solutions.While working at DF my domains of focus included: Connected homes, IoT, financial benchmarking software, strategic planning and technical consulting, banking and transactional web and desktop platforms.Clients came to me with a problem or opportunity and left with a Vision, Strategy, Solution and Implementation for a full stack, custom built software-based-solution.My teams have developed global connect home products supporting 10 languages across more than 14 countries, social commerce platforms and completely redesigned and implemented solutions for the largest global payments corporation's quantitative data toolset.

Greater San Diego Area

• Lead multiple teams in the successful research and development of new products and innovations• Applied Agile methodology to R&D and product development iterations• Taught workshops on novel and interesting technologies such as lean startup methodologies, 3D printing, robotics, Arduino, Data Analytics, financial derivatives investing and modeling, content creation and managementA non-profit company inspired by the difficulties encountered in acquiring equipment and expertise necessary for conducting research, getting hands-on experience, and developing ideas into products. I led workshops teaching a range of skills from analog circuit design to robots and programming as well as investment strategies and lean startup principles. We also partnered with local research facilities and other non-profits to help turn ideas into reality by leveraging technology and experience to solve novel problems of interest.

Greater San Diego Area

A technology enhanced learning company that sought to improve self learning environments commonly found in online classrooms and MOOCs. In my many roles I was: • product inventor• Data Analytics - Natural Language Processing, Predictive analytics, data modeling• Interface Designer (UX, UI, storyboard, personas)My background in Cognitive Science was used to design a system which could monitor students as they learned and provide real-time feedback on things such as notes and whether they were up to par with other students and the professors intended material.

La Jolla

• Research and Development (Neuroscience, Neurophysiology, Analog and digital circuits, Micro Controllers, Piezo Actuators)• Software Development (C, Arduino, Processing Languages)• Interface design and production (designed and 3D printed physical product interface)I began my time at in the SmartSpaces lab at the Qualcomm Institute as a Jacobs Scholar. My initial role was to research and develop a novel method for Human-Computer Interaction. Using my education in neuroscience I quickly identified a novel approach to creating tactile feedback for users in digital environments. I subsequently used electrical engineering, programming, and rapid prototyping to design, 3D print and build a mouse which could provide texture feedback to the user from a program (i.e. wave your mouse over a picture of sand to feel “rough” texture and over glass to feel “smooth” texture from the actuators on the mouse). I entered my invention in the ECE Design competition and am very proud to believe that this or similar technology will someday change the way we interact with digital environments, allowing us to feel virtual objects as I demonstrated with my prototype.

Ucsd

• Neuro Electrophysiology Research• Brain-Computer Interface Developer (Analog circuits, Micro Controller, Programming in C, Java, Processing)• Subject Trail Researcher (designed and ran experiments on over 20 subjects in a controlled experiment)• Received award for Research and Presentation at Annual LSAMP Research Symposium at UCIInspired by what I believed to be poorly design equipment and research protocols for EEG experiments and fueled by a personal interest in Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs), I conducted research on Neuro-Electrophysiology. After believing I had an solution to the common plagues of BCIs and EEG research (such as signal-noise ratio and environmental conditions) I proceeded to teach myself analog circuit design and well become familiar with operational and instrumental amplifiers. Using my research and new knowledge I invented a non-invasive active electrode Brain-Computer Interface which was able to outperform standard lab equipment both in and outside of the laboratory. I used this device to conduct my own research experiment to determine how long it took for subjects to acquire conscious control over the digital output of my device. This research was presented by me at annual LSAMP research symposium for which I received an honorable award and recognition.

Hillcrest

I conducted ethnographic studies at the Radiology center at UCSD’s HillCrest medical center. I was responsible for collecting data on how the radiologist interacted with and worked in their environments as well as creating detailed workflows. This required me to observe the radiologists in practice as well as become familiar with the software they used and gain a working understanding of the purpose and practice behind their work as radiologist. My findings and subsequent consultations found valuable and used in the creation of a new radiology center.

Bachelor Of Applied Science - Basc, Applied Mathematics

Activities and Societies: Jacob's Scholar, LSAMP Scholar, Awarded High Recognition for Poster-board and Presentation at the Annual.

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Cognitive Science, Natural Computation And Machine Learning, Provost Honors

Activities and Societies: Cognitive Science Student Association (Served As: President '12, Vice President '11, Professional Network.

Specialized Grad Certification, Data Science, Analytics And Machine Learning

Activities and Societies: Graduated with Distinction in multiple areas from R Programming to Exploratory Data Analysis, Machine Learning.

Professional Certification, Data Analytics, A

I took the Google Cloud Products professional certification program taught by Google through Coursera. A series of courses and a capstone.