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Oroville, California, United States

• Project COVID-19 vaccine demand using ordinal regression and R to prevent wastage and increase patient flow through mass vaccination clinics.• Technical lead on MyTurn state system for COVID-19 vaccine clinics, including advising Butte County Information Services on connectivity, failsafe and backups on implementation and procedures regarding clinic operations.• Conduct quality assurance on California Immunization Registry (CAIR) COVID-19 vaccine administration data among Butte County residents • Provided pandemic related resources to callers, maintain, and manage call data for these calls.

• Provided pandemic related resources to callers, maintain, and manage call data for these calls.• Drafted weekly call analytics report for call summary for inclusion in Emergency Operations and Department Operations weekly ICS report.

Santa Ana, California, United States

● Used GIS and Openstreet API to optimize ballot collection of 300,000 ballots from 190 designated drop boxes around the county in a timely and secure manner over a 2-to-3-week period by loading and testing real-time street data to reduce travel time in traffic.● Produced over 300,000 Voter Information Guides by leading a team of 9 to physically maintain a complex printing press while troubleshooting a SQL database and real time data stream over an approximately 3-week period.● Improved workflow by 25% by training 12 other Ballot Collection Technicians using organizational system theory to exceed deadlines.

Norwalk, California, United States

● Consulted with 25 business owners annually concerning IT program needs, operations of hardware and software, research and solutions testing, licensing, and recommendations for security audits. ● Consulted with business owners to implement security camera systems for large commercial properties using Blue Iris and POE cameras.● Deployed Synology, Unraid, or TruNas systems for routine backups of critical files from network computers. ● Reduced customer check-in time by 50% by automating registration process with OCR and python.● Deploy a Hotel Management System that met client’s needs and budget to increased client’s revenue by 45% as measured by occupancy rate.

San Diego County, California, United States

• Conducted policy analysis on legislative actions to provide recommendations for local governments, including review of fiscal budgets/expenditures with in-house developed key performance index (KPI) and on utilization of school bonds within fiscal budgets.• Compiled fiscal data and prepared weekly and monthly reports regarding school bonds, ongoing audits, and current research projects.• Conducted and produced “Fiscal Analysis of the General Budget of the City of San Diego,” analyzing weaknesses and modelling scenarios during an economic downturn of magnitude similar to the Great Recession.

Downey, California, United States

• Researched, analyzed and summarized public health and economic policies into internal memos to inform legislation introduced by assemblymember• Conducted key informant interviews and analyzed qualitative data to make policy recommendation to assemblymember on school CPR requirements. • Assembled district newsletter distributed via email daily to 1,500 constituent subscribers containing news stories relating to assemblymember’s agenda items from Google Trends data stored in a SQL database.

Master Of Public Administration - Mpa, 3.9

Bachelor'S Degree, Public Policy

Activities and Societies: Chairperson, Global Brigades; Volunteer, Non-profit Organization