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Houston, Texas, United States

Houston, Texas, United States

• Coordinated four cross-functional teams to enhance the efficiency and quality of product releases for a cloud-based VR training platform, reducing time from customer insight to product improvement by establishing the company’s first design team.• Spearheaded interdepartmental collaboration by serving as the primary liaison on product objectives between sales, marketing, customer success, design, engineering, production, and executive leadership.• Engaged in troubleshooting technology-based challenges and customer interactions to drive product enhancements.• Developed communication strategies to convey complex technical details to non-technical stakeholders.

Houston, Texas, United States

• Established product strategy for VR training platform that ensured safe maintenance training for safety-conscious customers.• Oversaw technical setups for customer onboarding, trainings, and conference demos, configuring VR and AV equipment for streamlined presentation of our product to current and prospective customers.• Developed Power BI dashboard that improved onboarding efficiency, thereby boosting customer engagement.• Co-developed and executed go-to-market strategies, focusing on critical deadlines and product objectives.

Houston, Texas, United States

• Developed algorithms using motion and eye-tracking data to enhance the educational effectiveness of our training platform.• Acted as a primary contact for customer issue reporting, troubleshooting software and hardware issues to resolve technical issues or escalate to appropriate technical teams.• Led usability tests with VR setups, including technical startup of desktop computers, VR headsets, and motion tracking sensors.

Houston, Texas Area

• Conducted psychophysical research using MRI, tactile stimulators, eye-trackers, EEG, ECoG, and VR headsets.• Partnered with international labs to secure funding and coordinate ultra-high-field MRI studies, showcasing cross-cultural communication skills.

Houston, Texas Area

• Awarded $60K to extend my interdisciplinary education and research in neuroengineering. Included coursework on robotic sensing and control, machine learning for neuronal spike clustering, and grant writing.

Houston, Texas Area

• Teaching Assistant for physics course on non-invasive neuroimaging methods, including EEG, ECoG, and fMRI• Led grading on homework, exams, and grant-formatted project proposals

Houston, Texas, United States

• Developed analytics tools for a VR training platform to track student performance and analyze user experience.• Contributed to the development of microservices architecture (C++), showcasing technical proficiency and a hands-on approach to solving user-centered analytics challenges.

Austin, Texas

• Worked with physicists, engineers, and biologists to collect high-resolution functional MRI of human superior colliculus (SC), a small, difficult-to-image structure in the midbrain.• Demonstrated how visual attention maps in human SC using computational modeling.

Austin, Texas

• Led lesson planning and tutoring of Spanish language skills for children• Tutored children ages 4-18 in all major topics, plus SAT and ACT exam preparation

Austin, Texas Area

• Attended weekly lectures and discussions about leadership in the workplace• Learned how to encourage cooperation, respect, and understanding in the workplace

Phd, Neuroscience

Visiting Scholar, Emotions, Fictions, And Virtual Worlds

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Neurobiology