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Chicago, Il, Us

Portland, Or, Us

Berlin, De

Served in an advisory role with Vyking on industry standard Risk and Compliance practices for their NFT marketplace.Established Vyking’s AML/KYC, Sanction, and IDV programs from the ground up.Led brainstorming sessions to generate innovative ideas for new products or product enhancements as Vyking ventured into financial products.Supported the Product team in creating and maintaining product documentation, including product roadmaps, user stories, and feature prioritization.Analyzed user feedback and product performance data to identify areas for improvement and recommend actionable insights for engineers and larger stakeholders.Built out and improved custom SDK integration procedures for various firms and organizations.

Founded a financial tech centered consulting firm focusing on the intersection of Fintech, Crypto, Economic Policy, and Global Trade.Consults with private firms, governmental organizations, individuals, and non-profits as an independent auditor on building independent road maps with a heavy focus on Growth, Compliance and Risk.

Washington, Dc, Us

Managed a team of enumerators for the U.S. Census Bureau.Collected and compiled data from households, unhoused individuals, and care facilities.Reorganized office training and procedures throughout the COVID 19 Pandemic.

Doing the Millennial thing and traveling the world! Hit me up if you're in a city, town, or country near me.Japan → South Korea → China → Vietnam → Cambodia → Laos → Thailand → India → UAE → Kenya → Tanzania → Zambia → Malawi → Zimbabwe → South Africa → Ethiopia → Egypt → Israel → Palestine (West Bank) → Turkey → Austria → Germany → The Netherlands → The UK → France → Spain → Portugal → Morocco → Brazil →

Oakland, California, Us

Assisted in kicking off the launch of the Cash App's crypto currency program in the Winter of 2017 along with other relevant parties.Developed an industry standard team of crypto specialists which included hiring, training, KPI monitoring, risk appetite, and workflow guidelines for industry leading cryptocurrency and transaction monitoring analysts. Developed, managed, and implemented consumer, regulatory, and P2P crypto policy for the Cash App.Mentored Squares on the growing role of cryptocurrency in Fintech and helped sculpt a cypto-centric focus for both customer-facing, and internal profit driven teams.Managed ever shifting deadlines with various Product, Sales, Engineering, and Customer-facing Teams to ship product, policy and procedural updates for policy implementation for the Cash App's various BTC and P2P money transfer services services.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Opened the Compliance department in Square's new St. Louis Office in the Fall of 2015 with two other colleagues. Spearheaded the opening of the the Biz Ops division of Compliance in St. Louis in the winter of 2016.Worked to build improvements for Square Register, Square Capital and Cash App merchants reviews, and app functionality.Reviewed and investigates over 50 million dollars worth of accounts a month involving Compliance related activity monthly.Verified merchants information through Square's ongoing know your customer platform.Worked interdepartmentally with Payments, Product, Legal, Support, Risk, Disputes, Square Capital, Sales and other teams to maintain and improve both Square' internal and external functionality.Interviewed potential new hires for Square.

Us

Researched and provided key international strategic partners for the City of Chicago.Wrote official correspondence to global officials and delegations on behalf of the City and Mayor of Chicago.Provided data driven results on the changing ethnocultural face of the City.

New York, Ny, Us

Monitored and analyzed large scale payment information for the platform Contacted and confirmed corporate buyer’s purchase and sale information from different vendors from around AsiaAided in the translations of important port and trade documents

Managing relations between the organization and community membersPromoting organization initiativesFormulated new directional plans for the continual improvement of the organization

Baltimore, Md, Us

Managed a large group of youth activists in organizing efforts around voter registration, community health engagement, and helping to bridge misinformation around neighborhood policing.Led executive board meetings.Helped organize youth attending Barack Obama's first inauguration.

Master Of Arts - Ma, North American Studies - Economics

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Development Economics And International Development. Minor In Chinese

Study Abroad, Chinese Language And Literature

High School