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Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Manage and coordinate “The Interventions Guide”, a part of the organization’s top strategic priority, in which we are developing over 25 robust, ready-made, and evidence-based curricula for children and adults in 7.
• Collaborate cross-culturally with 29 National Offices for custom-tailored Intervention planning and executing of both written materials and app-related technology, while identifying pain points and improvement of.
• Maintain, adapt, and communicate ever-changing roadmaps, risks, and dependencies due to scope creep and direction shifts.
• Improved team efficiency by 20% through creating new automation, data analyses, dashboards, and regular status updates.
• Created a new translation process that saved 7+ months of work effort and approximately $300,000 of allotted budget.
• Developed a sustainable communication process to ensure the right decisions, materials, and dates were synced among 11+ different stakeholder groups, including operations, marketing, executive teams, and IT.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Coached teams on Scaled Agile (SAFe®) principles for product development of a mobile app and website centered on constant improvement of donor experience for sponsorship of 2.2 million children in poverty.
• Led 4 teams of 23 developers, testers, and product owners in iterative work planning and progress tracking through DSU, Iteration Planning, Retrospective, PI Planning, and I&A Workshop scrum ceremonies.
• Created culture of continuous improvement for teams through change roadmaps using sprint and release data analysis.
• Analyzed team performance metrics to identify areas of inefficiency and to create refined processes for project delivery.
• Improved team flow through process changes and data analytics to increase predictability by ~40% and delivery by ~60%

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Team Lead and Scrum Master for agile-driven back-end product development of a client relationship management (CRM) tool used by the U.S. government.
• Collaborated with 4 other teams for mitigation and strategizing of dependencies and potential impediments for development.
• Responsible for leading DSU, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning and Commitment, and Release Planning for a team of 6.
• Developed reference materials and resources for the team to improve agile process.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Team Lead for ideation, development, and deployment of a configurable and globally-used travel request and management platform for enhanced government operations.
• Conducted extensive business analysis for planning, execution, and delivery (using agile methodologies) of a client relationship management (CRM) tool to technologically modernize U.S. government systems.
• Supported development and maintenance of a technical Knowledge Base for government operations.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Drove change management for user groups' adoption, experience, and engagement of a university-used product (during the COVID-19 pandemic) through large-scale data analysis, communications and marketing, and agile.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Assisted in the development and implementation of a research data platform for pharmaceutical company functionality in drug discovery through functional data architecture design, agile requirements analysis, and.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

• Serving as a TA for MIT undergraduate course: Fields, Forces, and Flows in Biological Systems.
• Responsible for preparing and teaching classroom sessions, holding office hours for extra tutoring, and administration of homework assignments, quizzes, and exams.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

• Undergraduate researcher focused on tissue engineering topics related to the cardiovascular system
• Project deals with genetic factors that affect cell differentiation of cardiac myocytes
• Goal of project is to better understand cellular regeneration of cardiac tissue for treatment/repair of heart failure. Potential for synthetic organ generation.

São Paulo, SP, Brazil

• Shadowing doctors in the cardiology department and the ICU
• Learning about medicine and the medical field in Brazil
• Working at a partner hospital under public health to identify areas of Brazilian public healthcare that needs improvement

Bangalore, India

• Working on implementation of a class project on prosthetics
• Our team developed an adaptor to attach a prosthetic cane leg to a standard prosthetic socket
• Field testing done in India with amputees to test functionality of adaptor
• Working under MIT's D-Lab in conjunction with Rise Legs in Bangalore

Cambrige, MA

• Researching Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) and how gene expression is related to a patient’s increased resistance toward chemotherapeutic treatments.
• Question how mutated oncogenes and tumor-suppressing genes and epigenetic factors cause for relapse in cancer patients.
• Handle mouse models treated with PDX samples for leukemia.
• Mentored by MD/PhD candidate from Harvard-MIT medical program.

Medford, MA

• Summer daycare/camp of children ages 3-12 from the Brazilian community in Boston.
• Responsible for teaching kids Bible stories, as well as other basic lessons such as math, cursivewriting, geography, and even etiquette.
• Led field trips to educational and recreational places in Boston such as the New EnglandAquarium and Legoland.

Cambridge, MA

• Assisted SOS Office with community events and tasks during spring semester

Somerville, MA

• Helped train new employees in the newly-opened store.
• Handled hundreds of thousands of dollars in transactions.
• Helped keep store organized and in well maintenance.

• Tutor for an adult pursuing GED in basic math, science, social studies, and language arts.
• Tutor for others in high school level algebra and calculus.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs

High School Diploma