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New York, United States

Seattle, Wa, Us

Owner of forecasting and demand planning for machine learning and AI products, including all EC2 accelerated instances. Drives global ML hardware financial planning, supply chain ordering, data center rack landings on all time horizons.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Demand forecasting and planning for all AWS cloud computing products, across all customers in all regions and on all server types. Creating supply and demand projections for different time horizons; these forecasts are used in product launches, hardware orders, supply chain planning, financial targets, cap ex decisions, etc.

Executive and lead for product and strategy at an early-stage SaaS startup. Aimed to improve employee productivity as COVID-19 increases the necessity of virtual tools, by bringing remote employee-training SaaS tools to US market. Accepted into Stanford Rebuild, a global innovation sprint to develop solutions for challenges from the pandemic. Chief of product design research and market entry strategy. Primary oversight of sales funnel, user interviews, and direct reports.

Boston, Ma, Us

Built strategy for international growth, organization, and partnerships for B2B enterprise software and diversified manufacturing clients.

Geneva, Geneva, Ch

Aided in launch of U.S. feeder fund to grow AlphaMundi's impact investor base. Compiled report about impact investing with a gender equality lens to grow the AlphaMundi Foundation's donor base. Performed due diligence. Full-time turned part-time.

San Francisco, California, Us

Served high net worth individuals, foundations, and universities looking to generate positive environmental, social, and governance impact through allocation of $1b+ assets under management. Compiled client-facing impact reporting and market monitoring materials, developed benchmark return rates, and conducted landscape scans and pipeline background research into investment opportunities.

Formed strategy for international development issues impacting access to basic financial services, digital payment technology infrastructure, etc. across a variety of developing nations.

San Francisco, California, Us

Created early-stage, industry-shifting tech that empowers food producers and farms to build a better food system. Jack-of-all-trades (business, analytics, UI/UX design) on a small, high-growth team based out of Stanford's StartX accelerator. Our platform lays the groundwork crucial to building the information backbone for a better, smarter food supply chain.

Stanford, Ca, Us

Member of a 3-person paid research team that worked on human-centered design-thinking/user empathy empathy research for the FEED Collaborative (http://feedcollaborative.org/) at the Stanford d.school. Part-time.

New York, New York, Us

Public Sector & Infrastructure (PSI) group. Financed multimillion dollar deals for clients in industries including clean energy, public housing, infrastructure, education, utilities, transportation, and more. Created client presentations, market update materials, and debt analyses for bond issuers.

Stanford, Ca, Us

Founder of the only student merchandise line purchased and distributed by the Stanford Store. Developed and managed retail products from ideation to realization. Generate $1K+ in additional per-product revenue by developing specialized designs specific to occasions.

New York, Ny, Us

Collaborated on 2 Columbia Behavioral Research Lab experiments. Analyzed the effect of situational stress on relationship between work performace, mindsets, and physiological responses (e.g. blood pressure and respiratory sinus arrhythmia). Also examined how placebo effect and mindset can be influenced by others in a group (shared reality). Chosen as 1 of 20 interns from 1,000+ grad and undergrad applicants to conduct research and data analysis in business management.

Stanford, Ca, Us

Conducted research for Policy Uncertainty Project, developing indexes tracking political uncertainty to performance of world’s major economies. To date, index can successfully foreshadow drops in employment and economic growth. Project featured in New York Times (July 2012), Wall Street Journal (Sept. 2013), and Bloomberg News (Nov. 2013). Refined indexes’ computerized data collection algorithm with Stanford economics professor, Nicholas Bloom. For further details, see www.policyuncertainty.com.

Oakland, Ca, Us

With the Atlantic chapter, worked with NYC Dept. of Buildings, local politicians, and nonprofits to reduce citywide energy usage and decrease cooling costs by up to $1 per rooftop sq. ft. (NYC has 944 billion sq. ft. of rooftop). Designed informational anti-invasive species graphics distributed in statewide environmental initiatives.

Reported for a Pulitzer-winning Bronx local newspaper. Contributed to photojournalism, layout, advertising, and writing.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

B.A., Economics, English Minor

High School