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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.

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, with a.

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