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San Diego, California, United States

DIRECTED THE OPERATIONAL PLANNING & PROGRAMMING TO EXECUTE COMPANY WIDE RESPONSIBLE AI INITIATIVE: Spearheaded partnership between the Anti-Discrimination & Equity Team, Privacy, Data Science, Engineering, and Legal to audit initiative requirements, establish a model issue ranking framework, secure leadership alignment, and launch an AI review program. HEADED xFUNCTIONAL WORKING GROUP TO ESTABLISH AUTOMATED INSIGHTS PROGRAM: This initiative has provided leadership instant, on-going access to key company metrics, visibility into previously unseen user trends across key demographics, and influenced the strategy of multiple programs. DIRECTED PROGRAM PORTFOLIO BUDGET: Led overhaul of budget forecasting, spend monitoring, vendor management, and statement of work renewal process to reduce staff capacity requirements, increase transparency, and improve accuracy.

ESTABLISHED TEAM STRATEGIC PLANNING FRAMEWORK: Created a multi-tier framework and collaborated with cross-functional leaders to set the team’s three year vision, identify interdependent annual milestones, outline EOQ goals, and operationalize monthly progress-to-goals reporting. LAUNCHED INTERNAL CROSS-FUNCTIONAL CONSULTANCY STRATEGY: Led partnership across Program, Data Science, and Engineering teams to develop and implement a cross-functional research consultancy strategy that streamlined project intake, enhanced client engagement, operationalized project delivery, optimized staff capacity forecasting, and systematized vendor management. LED HYBRID TEAM OFF-SITE: Orchestrated the design, planning, and management of a hybrid team off-site that deepened connection among the 16 team members and kicked-off new annual strategic planning process.

Managed a team of 5 consultants in crafting and executing a cohesive strategy for scaling the firm’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) business services through leadership investment, cross-departmental integration, and operational optimization.

Led a multinational change management team for a global technology company in enabling a smooth transition for more than 1,000 client partners and 200 employees by collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify change impacts, developing a comprehensive change strategy, facilitating learning campaigns, and managing client relationships. Managed a diverse team of 15 cross-functional leaders and practitioners in designing a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) analytics product to provide clients actionable insights, drive organizational transformation, and accelerate meaningful workforce outcomes.Led the BTE-Core Well-being Team in fostering a culture of well-being and inclusion for 300 practitioners by providing the community, strategies, and resources to lead with well-being at work and in their personal lives.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Managed solution design and impact assessment projects to drive impact and more equitable outcomes across a portfolio of 29 national programs. Designed an automated, cloud based goal management system that provided timely and actionable data to employees and managers, then executed change management plan to train and invest 35 staff across 5 departments, which resulted in a 290% year-over-year increase in progress towards goals

Greater Los Angeles Area

Managed sprint with 18 staff across 6 departments in crafting 2017 programming survey, invested them in the development process, and ensured smooth nationwide distribution across 110 programsDesigned methodology for analyzing the actions of LEE’s 19,500 program participants from program applicant to post-program impact, then automated reporting process to streamline it from 2 days to 2 minutesCreated SQL Data Warehouse change management plan and co-led 3 departments through needs assessment, development, testing, and staff on-boarding

Greater Los Angeles Area

Assessed the impact of the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools' Restorative Communities program on the 7,000 students and 434 certificated staff who participated across the Partnership’s 11 pilot schools and identified strategies for improving the program in the 2014-2015 school year Built real-time data dashboard to monitor the professional development completion of 289 staffExtracted, transformed, analyzed, and visualized LAUSD School Experience Survey data from 2009-2014 to evaluate perceptions of school safety among students, parents, and staff at the Partnership 16 schoolsUsed Excel to build interactive data dashboards to support non-technical staff in tracking school suspension and referral trends across all Partnership schools

Santander Area, Spain

Created and executed a bilingual curriculum in English and Spanish for 60 students that prepared them to analyze international policy and draft resolutions for solving real world problems

Miami, Fl

Developed curriculum and effectively facilitated 2,520 hours of lessons for 300 high school juniors resulting in average student learning gains of 110%Trained 90 teachers in leveraging technology to maximize student learning outcomes and increase parent engagementSelected as eleventh grade English Language Arts Curriculum Leader in first year

Master'S Degree, Public Policy

Consulted for the California School Finance Authority, resulting in an in-depth evaluation of the Charter School Facility Grant Program’s.

Master Of Public Policy, Public Policy Analysis, Graduate Student

B.A., Political Science

Activities and Societies: President of the Latin American Student Association, Chair of the LASA Political Action Committee, TELACU.