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Oakland, California, United States

• Surface latent concepts and barriers our clients experience by incorporating LLMs and NLP in cluster analysis, classification, and knowledge mapping models. • Quantify community outcomes and prioritize impactful initiatives through program evaluation using targeted surveys, participation tracking, and enriched data .• Bringing GoogleCloud and BigQuery into our tech stack for HPC and NLP needs.• Automated client financial need assessment , eliminating hours of manual processing, by integrating external, dynamic data with internal client data in an application-processing pipeline.• Increased scholarship allocation accuracy by 60 percent by developing model parameters, improving funding transparency and data governance.

Oakland, California, United States

• Integrated current and historical event data, participant data, and financials in a database, to produce organizational reports and program insights.• Produced data visualizations for funding reports and internal stakeholder meetings.

Berkeley, California, United States

• Cleaned and managed a large survey dataset, produced SEM, factor analysis, and regression models, validating research approach and identifying concept clusters in survey participant responses.• Researched and tested non-parametric survey analysis methodologies.• Advised executive and academic team in statistical analysis and produced peer-reviewed research publication titled, "OMG, Yes!: Feasibility, Acceptibility, and Preliminary Efficacy of an Online Intervention for Female Sexual Pleasure" (see publications section).

Berkeley, Ca

• Designed laboratory trials, piloted and prototyped experimental set ups. • Independently contributed core findings to publication examining relationship between Argentine ant supercolony identity and resilience to desiccation.• Conducted preliminary analysis and modeling using time series analysis and regression in R.• Worked on lab-based and field teams to collect data.

Berkeley, California

•Taught data analysis in R to Biology/Pre-Med students.•Taught courses in General Biology and in Environmental Science to classes of up to 85 students.• Advising students conducting research and writing academic papers.• Excellent teaching evaluations and passion for sharing knowledge.

Indonesia

• Led a team of ten scientists in conducting ecological surveys across Komodo National Park and adjacent islands in Indonesia.• Produced GIS-based maps of small islands, mapping the distribution of invasive and native species.• Collected over 4,000 vegetation and soil data points.• Reported to government officials and attended G44 political policy conference as a scientific representative of the United States in SE Asia.

Western Samoa

• Collected data on the invasive Yellow Crazy Ant (Anoplolepis gracilipes) in Wester Samoa.

Gainesville, Florida Area

• Conducted research on arthropod community composition in riparian zones under differing paper timber management regimes. • Identified over 25,000 arthropod specimens across all taxonomic groups, entered data, and analyzed data.

Gainesville, Florida Area

• Monitored bird nests during the nesting season and entered data during the remainder of the year. • Designed study protocols, specifically a method for recording bird behaviors observed in the field.

Fort Pierce, Florida

• Assisted in managing two biology labs and an anatomy lab within the Biology Department.• Maintained equipment, prepared media, set up practicals and worked with preserved collections.

Data Scientist Career Track, Business Applications, Data Science

• Springboard Data Science Career Track, Certification • Over 700 tracked hours of hands-on course material and projects.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Environmental Science / Ecology / Myrmecology (Ant Biology)

Activities and Societies: Research Associate, California Academy of Sciences Manager, VLSB insectary Grantee, Essig Museum of Entomology•.

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Ecology

Activities and Societies: Wilderness Society Women's RugbyB.S. degree in Ecology with a minor in Zoology.

Associate Of Arts (A.A.), Biology/Biological Sciences, General

A.A. Degree in Biology