Expanding the field of Participatory Civic Media by exploring and researching the intersections of technology, civic engagement, and social media. Currently learning and building robots and experiences in AR/VR.

Our team co-developed a smart + private reporting channel to improve the collection of antitrust reports from corporate informants, which we successfully demoed to our stakeholder (a federal agency). Our proposed UX/workflow assists the informant in identifying the category of violation and expedites report processing and authentication. The underlying security architecture and privacy design, including the communication channel between agency staff and informants, is entirely open source and publiclyauditable. This reduces the trust burden imposed on the informant, and minimizes the probability of (accidental) deanonymization and consequent industry reprisal. Lowering this risk of engagement with an agency, while concurrently increasing the relevancy of the submission to an antitrust case, is intended to attract 'higher stakes' reports – that is, employees working close to the violation, whose evidence may make or break a case, but who also have the most to lose. The backdrop; addressing anticompetitive behavior is increasingly vital as monopolies loom large, but also increasingly challenging to achieve from the outside as novel technology helps corporates bury anticompetitive behavior in algorithms and opaque, byzantine systems. Making civil participation as easy and safe as possible – i.e. for those truly in the know to flag unfair practices without fear – helps counter-balance this trend.

- Employ and leverage my 10+ years of experience working in the intersections of tech, civic engagement, and immigration policy to help build internal and external-facing software and digital tools to empower, inform, and mobilize our tens of thousands of supporters, followers, and clients. - Maintain, develop, manage, and document several large code bases and projects using a variety of frameworks, technologies, and tools including: TypeScript, JavaScript, Angular, Docker, Node, Sequelize, PHP, HTML, CSS, WordPress Gulp, MySQL, Redis, Solr, Kubernetes, AWS, NGINX, JIRA, and Google Cloud. - Lead the research, planning of, and development of major features of Abrazos (a customized client and case management system) including: file upload/download to and from AWS S3 buckets, auto-filling and generation of PDF forms, backend CRON jobs and queues to process jobs across multiple workers, client management and user authentication, and report querying to name a few.- Improve and maintain our CI/CD pipelines to guarantee successful app deployments. - Manage and mentor a small team of software developers. - Collaborate and work closely with designers, stakeholders, and product owners on multiple projects in an Agile Scrum Environment.

Lead and manage one of the largest and fastest growing pro-immigration social media platforms in the country: 400K+ followers (Instagram), 320K+ fans (combined Facebook groups and pages), and 15K followers (Twitter).

Push4Reform (app.fwd.us) is an immigration advocacy tool created during the FWD.us DREAMer Hackathon at the LinkedIn headquarters on November 2013. The tool enables users to connect with their Congressional representatives in a matter of seconds. The Push4Reform app uses the user's zip code and/or address to accurately determine the user's representative. It displays detailed information on the representative's stances on several immigration issues and then makes it easy to contact them via several integrated communication tools.Awards received: - Best Advocacy Tool AwardJudges: - Mark Zuckerberg - Nicole Sanchez | Kapor Centor Managing Partner- Jose Antonio Vargas | Journalist, Filmmaker, and Immigration Rights Activist- Andrew Mason | Groupon Founder Team Members: - Kent Tam - Luis Aguilar - Jay Zalowitz (mentor) - Kartik Mandaville (mentor) - Caitlin Winner (mentor)

SpeakEasyDoc implements and integrates Open Whisper System's Signal end-to-end encryption protocol with Hyperpad to provide maximum privacy and security. Once the user has successfully registered, they can open a document, add collaborators by username or phone number, and simply start typing.

Maintain, develop, design, and update the Department of Political Science website. Helped coordinate and implement the renovation and migration of the website from Plone to Drupal 7. Update and maintain some faculty websites.

PC and laptop repair services: virus and spyware removal; hardware and software upgrades and troubleshooting; and data backup and recovery. Website development, brand development, and strategic consulting on business plan and advertising strategies. Social media and SEO.

• Grew CHIRLA's database from 1,500 to over 16,000 online members in less than 6 months. • Sent email blasts, created landing and donation pages for campaigns, and managed social media accounts• Served as a spokesperson on undocumented immigrant youth issues, conducted over 300 interviews.• Represented CHIRLA at the White House during hour-long meeting with President Obama and VP Biden