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San Diego

Lead design concept development and execution for various commercial, retail, and residential customers; oversaw vendor and contractor actions, ensuring clear project scope, accurate deliverables, and ensure on time and on budget completion. Earned rank as top sales leader, 8 out of 600, with referral rate of 83% and closing rate of 45%; account management actions enabled 100% customer service score through project cycle including the initial design, sale, measuring and ordering, logistics management, invoicing, installation, and follow-up.

Greater San Diego Area

Responsible for scoring HUD funding applications, meet with other members to determine scoring criteria, review each application, compared outcomes to historical data, and assign new score; allow grants to be accurately and effectively assigned to impactful homeless projects.Contribute to the updating of scoring tools and manuals, utilize applicant feedback to adjust scoring to maintain fair process; provide clear expectations to applicants.

Greater San Diego Area

Assisted in research projects, reviewed and collected data for research database for future journal articles, assist professions in sharing classroom materials, respond to students' questions, and led department recruiting and marketing actions. Performed in-depth research activities related to racial diversity in movies of the last 10 years, developed test questions related to murders in America, and compiled a comprehensive list of articles related to homicide and juveniles; deliverables utilized by professors in the classroom and to present new courses to department leadership. Led actions related to student recruitment, including creating marketing materials, providing peer advising and mentoring, conducting campus tours and orientations, and delivering classroom presentations.

San Diego

Partnered with documentary production team to define purpose and scope of film project, developed narrative for proposal, and drafted proposal as defined by guidelines and submitted within timeline.

San Diego

Contributed to study focusing on the working lives of San Diego County restaurant workers, aiming to identify issues related to wages and discrimination; led data collection, data analysis, and presentation of findings to government officials.Surveyed and interviewed over 335 employees at over 40 restaurants, measuring frequency of legal violations including wage theft, break violations, time theft, sick leave, and scheduling; organized raw data, reviewed reports, printouts, and performance indicators to locate and code issues.Analyzed data to measure instances of illegal activity by local eateries in relation to their employees, provided reports to policy writers; presented findings to community, university, and government officials, determined 77% of restaurant employees had experienced wage theft, 60% have worked unpaid, and 78% had gone to work while sick.Reports enabled the passage of two new employment laws in California, paid sick day law for all employment levels and quicker collection of a owed wages by wronged employees.

San Diego

Led research actions for Patterns of Care project, completed two years of fieldwork conducting interviews related to the mental health services and need assessments of teenage foster children. Utilized quantitative and qualitative research methods to analyze program outcomes and track clients in SAS and databases; acted as the Dissemination Coordinator, ensuring accuracy of all content prior to release of San Diego County Patterns of Care Manual.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Sociology, 3.92/4.0

Activities and Societies: Thesis: 3D printing and the Maker Movement: A Critique http://gradworks.umi.com/10/14/10147640.html Graduate.

Associate Of Arts (A.A.), Interior Design