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Austin, TX, US

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Software Engineer working at Ally Financial

Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States

• Lead 25-member board in stewardship of community history and storytelling museum.
• Facilitate bi-monthly board meetings and executive committee meetings
• Hold regular 1:1s with Executive Director to collaboratively discuss and share advice on personnel needs, board engagement, and strategy
• Lead annual board evaluation of the Executive Director
• Provide board development opportunities and serve as main contact for individual board members on any board issues
• Support staff and other board members to achieve museum's goals. Participate in board decisions on financial concerns, staffing, and board matters.Facilitated board's financial oversight of museum and led finance.

Atlanta, GA

• Established strategic partnerships and managed consultants on various projects to meet community retention, resident engagement, and community partnership goals through the lens of research and urban planning
• Managed contract with Atlanta Regional Commission and TechBridge to develop Westside Community Data Dashboard
• Served as staff liaison to APD in completion of Westside Land Use Plan, including final round of community engagement with neighborhood leaders and adoption by Atlanta City Council
• Oversaw configuration of Salesforce CRM to track resident and partner engagement and improve information sharing for staff
• Oversaw pro-bono work with technology startup developing software to manage housing assistance programs
• Completed internal research requests from real estate, fundraising, community engagement, and partnership staff as needed

Atlanta, GA & São Paulo, Brazil

• Enhance organization’s strategic planning, fundraising, and community engagement by providing a clearer understanding of Westside’s socioeconomic and environmental conditions
• Advised pro-bono McKinsey team on research methods for analyzing community conditions in support of establishing baseline metrics for long-term community transformation goals.
• Utilized weighting and aggregation methods recommended by U.S. Census and ArcGIS to extrapolate socioeconomic measures for the Westside Future Fund’s custom community boundaries.
• Developed fact sheets as-needed to support funding requests to potential donors.
• Launched Westside Open Data Hub with ArcGIS Open Data platform.

Atlanta, GA

• Collaborated with Center's director to identify, cultivate, and build strategic partnerships between Georgia manufacturers and University System of Georgia researchers, with a primary focus on Georgia Tech..
• Participated in conducting on-site technology assessments at manufacturing facilities
• Performed desk research on specialized fields in manufacturing, including IoT, composites, and precision machining, to identify academic researchers that could form partnerships with industry
• Identified resources, both within and outside the University System of Georgia, to assist small-scale manufacturers with process improvements and supply chain issues
• Assisted with coaching and accelerating technology startups launched by researchers and students
• Reported monthly on Center's key performance indicators and outcomes

• Surfaced key insights that informed implementation of ACP's major initiatives.
• Performed case study research and wrote concept papers that helped align City's infrastructure bond projects and fiber optic network expansion
• Mapped Westside neighborhood boundaries and analyzed socioeconomic data to inform launch of Westside Future Fund
• Accelerated deployment of new ACP website and served as primary liaison to web development consulting team
• In collaboration with Executive Director, set implementation plans and timelines for major initiatives
• Interfaced with community collaborators to provide updates to ACP on their own major initiatives and help inform ACP's strategic directionWork included two separate contracts: Oct 2014 - Jan 2015, Oct 2015 - Jan 2016

• Identified multiple options for delivering a long-term parking solution for a historic theatre in Atlanta's rapidly densifying Midtown
• Assessed development susceptibility for public and private parking in 2-block radius of the Fox
• Worked with key staff members to identify values and objectives to shape future parking strategy
• Completed comparative analysis of parking availability for peer theatres across the US
• Evaluated parking supply (garages, lots, and on-street parking) and demand by Fox Theatre guests
• Wrote transportation survey for Fox Theatre guests

Atlanta, GA

• Delivered community and economic development research under advisement of College of Design's Associate Dean for Research and School of City and Regional Planning's MCRP program director
• Analyzed land use and business data with GIS software to pinpoint active manufacturers in Atlanta's urban core.
• Developed business plan for proposed organization to boost advanced manufacturing in existing industrial areas under mentorship of pro bono Accenture consultant. Pitched business plan to manufacturers and local/state.
• Conducted qualitative desk research primarily in community newspapers on neighborhood-level civic engagement to support faculty research on moving cities toward holistic and equitable sustainability goals.
• Utilized Adobe Creative Suite to assemble extensive collection of alumni professional projects into digital exhibit book and poster exhibition

Winston-Salem, NC

• Accelerated fair housing education and outreach to renters and landlords and launched initiatives to make local government more accessible to youth, college, underserved, and minority populations.
• Assumed ownership of defunct Youth Advisory Council from another department and successfully rebuilt into a youth civic education program for students from every public high school in city and county. In first year.
• Launched College Advisory Board to provide students from 5 area colleges and universities with opportunities to interface with governmental departments and enhance inter-campus dialogue on needs for their specific.
• Boosted fair housing education and outreach to LGBTQ+ population and service agencies working with domestic violence victims in accordance with updates to federal fair housing guidance
• Launched City-sponsored festival celebrating community's immigrant populations to provide visibility of City's support and to better link local immigrants into City services and leadership opportunities
• Managed department's website through a CMS, coded with HTML and CSS to customize page layouts, and wrote page content

Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States

• Led case intake for federal fair housing law violation claims and landlord/tenant disputes requiring mediation. Grew the department's outreach efforts to immigrant populations, youth, and college students and was.
• Provided case intake to 1,200 renter households (primarily low-income and/or from marginalized populations)
• Discussed sensitive client concerns about housing conditions, rent payments, and claims of housing discrimination and offered referrals to agencies that could assist with additional client needs outside department scope
• Assisted with City-led community dialogues on addressing identity-based disputes around race, national origin, religion, previous incarceration; targeted fair housing education programs for landlords and realtors; and.
• Managed department's website through a CMS, coded with HTML and CSS to customize page layouts, and wrote page content

Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point Area

• Accelerated efforts to build local understanding of community art and community cultural development through blog and community arts registry.
• Wrote ~5 blog posts per month about arts-based projects intentionally designed to address community issues
• Transferred blog from Wordpress to Blogspot
• Maintained Community Arts Registry

Gainesville, FL

• Assisted with launching a Juneteenth Festival to raise funds for the restoration of East Gainesville's Cotton Club. The Powell Center collaborated with the community using historic preservation and sustainability best.
• Designed vendor applications and implemented branding on festival collateral
• Processed artist and vendor applications and performed data entry in Microsoft Excel
• Assisted with meetings of the community alliance advocating the building's restoration
• Writing and editing grant applications under director's supervision

Master Of City And Regional Planning, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Student Planning Association Urban Analytics, Geographic Information Science (GIS), Sustainable Urban Development

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Art History, 3.97

Activities and Societies: Founding Member, Gators for a Sustainable Campus; Service-Learning Fellow, Dean of Students Office; Phi Beta Kappa

Advanced Residency For Software Engineering