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Portland, Or, Us

Building data and AI tools to help consumers fight environmental and mass tort harm.

Mountain View, Wy, Us

As a Senior Engineer, I was in charge of developing internal data pipelines, tools, and a custom accounting data model to track client staking on validators and liquidity pools on a DeFi protocol processing 10-11 figures USD of swap volume a quarter. I also worked with community stakeholders to develop open-source and public dashboarding to expose key data metrics for the protocol. Key highlights:- Designed and maintained our company’s accounting and analytics data pipelines, DBs, and reports for our primary line-of-business (managing total Web3 assets valued at 8 figures $USD) using Python, GCP, and Postgres/TimescaleDB.- Designed and maintained internal and open-source dashboards on various platforms to provide ecosystem, client, and affiliate services data for DeFi stakeholders using Javascript, Plotly.js, and Snowflake. Highlights from my work include:- Designed and maintained a publicly accessible integration partner DeFi web dashboard that serves transaction-level and aggregate datasets and visualizations driving affiliate fee-based revenue generation, using React, React Remix, Typescript, Chart.js, and Material UI.- Developed a cross-chain analytics tool to compare blocks across various Web3 blockchains, including but not limited to Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Doge, using Python, Javascript, React, and ElasticUI.- Developed a liquidity/staking monitor to represent total net earnings in USD across multiple asset pools using Javascript, React, and Chakra UI.

As a Data Engineer on the Instagram Reels & Camera Data Engineering team, I supported product, data science, and engineering needs to understand the impact of community-building within IG Reels.- Developed and maintained a new dynamic query generation framework and version-controlled metrics repository in Hack to enable modular and portable metrics for internal dashboards.- Designed and implemented client and server-side logging and experiment metrics for features developed by the IG Reels Community team in Hack and Python.- Published top-line goals and forecasting dashboards across all IG by working with data science and data engineering managers on metric priorities, definitions and slices for each half.- Designed and prototyped new experiment holdout, competitor-comparison, and root cause analysis dashboards for IG Reels & Camera.

San Francisco, California, Us

As the first Data Engineer at Flux, I developed core backend services and data engineering infrastructure to drive data science and analytics for understanding employee talent's career interests, skills, and potential.- Built and maintained our main data science and ETL pipelines to recommend professional opportunities to users using JS, Python, Snowflake, and AWS (Lambda, S3).- Built and maintained a data feed pipeline to regularly provide clients with data from our platform using Python, Snowflake, and AWS (Lambda, S3).- Built and maintained a modular, version-controlled, and documented BI/analytics reporting infrastructure using Snowflake, dbt, and Mode.- Built and maintained a career pathways tool to traverse through observed job transitions within an organization to guide future career development in Vue and Node.js.

Portland, Or, Us

As a full-stack Software Engineer on the Data Products/Yield Management Team at Vacasa, I collaborated with data scientists and rental portfolio analysts to develop and analyze predictions for dynamic rental rates and reservation settings.- Maintained an internal dashboard to visualize and dynamically set rates for Vacasa units based on machine learning models and human input in Angular, PHP, and Chart.js.- Developed an ETL pipeline to consume third-party real estate market data in Python and AWS S3;- Maintained our ML data science pipelines and non-ML business logic to predict and analyze vacation rental rates based on a variety of features and market conditions in Python and PHP.

As part of my software engineering requirements at the Tech Academy, I worked on a small, ad-hoc software team of about 5-7 people on a proposed job posting website for the software industry. In that role, I've worked on the following front-end and back-end tasks:- Developed an automated web scraper in C# to collect online job postings on company websites, update them to an Azure database server, and output a backup file in JSON;- Redesigned a job board website’s maps of tech companies using Google Maps JavaScript API;- Made miscellaneous updates to the job board website using HTML/CSS and Adobe Photoshop CC;My tech stack for this position included HTML/CSS, Javascript (including Google's Javascript API), C#, Python (primarily for review of legacy code), SQL Server and Azure, and Team Foundation Server.

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Following my tenure as Acting Director of Diversity & Inclusion during the search for a new permanent director, I returned to my primary responsibilities as a program coordinator for the D&I Department's portfolio of networking, leadership, professional skills development, and grant and scholarship programs, which included the following responsibilities:- Organized the events for the 2015-2016 Opportunities for Law in Oregon (OLIO) program, including a three-day comprehensive orientation program for incoming law students, a 200+ attendee networking event, an all-day employment retreat for law students, and a graduation ceremony for graduating law students; and- Oversaw the day-to-day responsibilities for the D&I Department’s fellowship, grant, scholarship, and stipend programs, including but not limited to evaluating applications, connecting awardees with potential employers, and reviewing evaluations for our programs.

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I temporarily assumed the role and responsibilities of Acting Director of the Oregon State Bar's Diversity & Inclusion Department for approximately 11 months while the department underwent a transition to hire a new permanent Director for this position, following the departure of our last Director. During this time, I successfully:- Directed the use of a $700,000+ budget to operate current scholarship, employment, and skill development programs and develop new programs to recruit and retain diverse professionals for the Oregon legal community;- Consulted for non-diverse professional organizations to identify their challenges, and advise them on how to develop and review strategies to diversify their workforces and memberships; and- Researched and evaluated current trends and developments in diversity and inclusion (D&I) across multiple industries.

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I joined the Oregon State Bar to serve as a program coordinator for the D&I Department's portfolio of networking, leadership, professional skills development, and grant and scholarship programs, which included the following responsibilities:- Organized the events for the 2015-2016 Opportunities for Law in Oregon (OLIO) program, including a three-day comprehensive orientation program for incoming law students, a 200+ attendee networking event, an all-day employment retreat for law students, and a graduation ceremony for graduating law students; and- Oversee the day-to-day responsibilities for the D&I Department’s fellowship, grant, scholarship, and stipend programs, including but not limited to evaluating applications, connecting awardees with potential employers, and reviewing evaluations for our programs.

Portland, Or, Us

As a fourth-year associate attorney at Oregon’s leading law firm specializing in estate and trust litigation, elder financial abuse, and contested protective proceedings (formerly Cartwright Whitman Baer PC), I performed the following responsibilities:- Drafted pleadings, motions, discovery requests, legal memoranda, and briefs at all stages of litigation in probate court;- Appeared on behalf of individual and fiduciary clients at pre-trial hearings, depositions, judicial settlement conferences and mediation; and- Prepared non-judicial trust modification agreements, retroactive trust reports, forensic financial analyses, and similar financial and corporate documents on behalf of trusts and closely-held corporate entities.

Boston, Ma, Us

Specialized in litigation support on personal injury and construction defect issues under Oregon and Washington law. Drafted discovery requests, court pleadings and motions; conducted legal research for attorneys; communicated with clients, experts, insurance claims representatives, and opposing counsel.

Graded and provided feedback for student essays for students enrolled in the BARBRI Bar Preparation Course for the Oregon Bar Exam.

Assisted in federal patent prosecution on behalf of South Korean engineering and law firms. Prepared U.S. Patent and Trademark Office application forms for prosecution; proofread invention specifications; developed mobile and remote office technology solutions for law firm access to client files internationally.

Researched Oregon and out-of-state case law for civil rights, employment law, fraud, and breach of settlement issues for local businesses. Drafted motions and other court-submitted documents, and attended client conferences.

Lake Oswego, Oregon, Us

Researched legal issues concerning company corporate policy and record retention.

Washington, Dc, Us

Researched federal statutory and administrative law for tort, contract, and quiet title cases. Responded to claims under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), drafted declarations and wrote settlement brief and court-submitted memorandum for Contract Disputes Act (CDA) claims.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Researched Washington and Oregon case law for construction defect, personal injury, and motor vehicle accident cases. Drafted court-submitted memoranda and motions, attended depositions and mediations, and wrote internal deposition summaries and status reports.

Researched and drafted a report recommending improvements for Maui County’s hurricane shelter system through the establishment of a shelter permit system for privately‐owned buildings.

Tested rainfall’s efficiency in removing aerosols from the atmosphere in laboratory tests and compiled data on atmospheric concentrations of aerosols in the Boston area.

B.S., Environmental Science

J.D., Law

Computer Programming