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San Diego, California, United States

Project manager and design engineer responsible for every aspect of napkin sketch -> prototype -> FDA approval, product development of novel medical devices in sports medicine and orthopedics. Fastest 510K approval in company history, working on company's first De Novo clearance. Hides easter eggs in the office every year, and three have still not been found this season.

Sacramento, California, United States

Produced, filmed, edited a video for the California History Museum permanently on exhibit (March 2023), explores diversity of identity within the young Japanese American community and how our shared history drives us to help shape a better future for all Americans and immigrants. Everyone who touched the project was Japanese American or AAPI! Everyone got compensated for their time, work, and emotional labor! We applied for a grant from the California Civil Liberties program and were awarded the full funding ask of $20,000.

Invited to join the Advisory Committee of the SHIFT Emerging Leaders Program after completing the program

Community of investors, entrepreneurs and professionals focused on impactful solutions

San Francisco Bay Area

Impact investment group focused on sustainable materials, biotechnology, clean energy, sustainable agriculture, and food science. Complete due diligence process with companies: sourcing, reference calls, investor memo, market research, syndicate formation, and funding. Organized angel panel events for investors and founders in the Bay Area.

Jackson, Wyoming, United States

Training for early career leaders to help develop the work at SHIFT and in America to build a diverse coalition of advocates who champion the health benefits of nature and fight for a more sustainable planet. Leadership framework empowers participants to address problems facing public health, conservation, advocacy, structures of oppression and community engagement.

San Francisco Bay Area

First hire 3-D digital modeling, prototyping, and research at point-of-care diagnostics start-up.• Product Design- Prototyped hardware shell for integration with microfluidic devices via Solidworks, 3D-printing, and lasercut materials.• Market Research- Created competitive analysis and in-depth assessment ofbiological molecular functions• Research and Development- Designed small molecule estradiol and cortisol GMR assays.

Select year-long fellowship for 12 engineering students, fully funded to pursue summer business and engineering internship at a startup.• Fellowship projects include: Agile prototyping, business model canvas.• Present hour-long symposium to Cornell public Fall 2017.

Cornell University Dept. Of Biological Engineering

• Assisted in Principles of Bioengineering, the affiliation class for Cornell’s biological engineering major• Designed and wrote case study homework and solutions, held office hours, proctored exams, graded assignments and exams

Mountainview, Ca

Health and fitness tech startup that creates posture coach and run coach wearables.• Product Management - led meetings between marketing, sales, customer service, and product; created and presented Customer Journey Map high level analysis and documentation of user touch points; researched and presented Competitive Landscape of Lumo Lift posture device.• Business Development-Market analysis of back pain, insurance companies, and self-insured, analyzed pricing models for next B2B endeavors.• Product- Organization and visual design for back pain program journey in app; redesigned app dashboard; designed app features; UX competitive analysis; business model canvas; marketing projects.• Video Capture Data - Created and led protocol to collect video motion and sensor gyroscope/accelerometer data from subjects for new B2B product algorithms.

Cornell University

A holistic prevention, detection, and treatment system for bovine mastitis, the most costly dairy cow disease in the industry.• Managed & organized CS/ECE team of 10, designing/prototyping technological elements of project• Designed, modeled, and created prototype of 3D printed microscope with app programmed to count somatic cells in milk and log cow data• Contributed to new holistic process to prevent, detect, and treat bovine mastitis for 2016 iGEM World Competition• Head of Webdesign team for the Cornell Engineering iGEM website as well as 2016 project wikihttp://2016.igem.org/Team:Cornell_NY/defaulthomehttps://igem.engineering.cornell.edu/• Mentored 9 new members, demonstrating and mentoring lab techniques, principles, and cloning process• Won Silver Medal and Nominated Best Integrated Human Practices• Continuing forward personally with this project, I won 1st Place Technical Achievement Award and Scholarship 2017 from P&G as well as semi finals in the Big Idea Competition 2018

Cornell University

A novel drug delivery system and probiotic treatment for Bacterial Coldwater Disease and app for monitoring nutrient content in fish hatcheries.• Cloned ecnB peptide gene and fusion protein into E.coli, tested for expression/zone of inhibition on F. psychrophilum• Programmed project wiki to summarize project for competition judges: http://2015.igem.org/Team:Cornell/overview• Integrated with novel probiotic treatment for bacterial coldwater disease in fish farms and fishtag drug delivery system• Won Gold Medal, Best Applied Design, Best Environmental Project, and Best Supporting Entrepreneurship

Bachelor’S Degree, Biological Engineering, Gpa 3.76

Activities and Societies: • Entrepreneurship at Cornell • Kessler Fellow • iGEM Subteam Lead • Teaching Assistant for Dept. of Biological.

High School, Cumulative Gpa 4.67

Activities and Societies: • Founder and President of Save the Panda Fundraising Club (raised and donated ~$12, 000) • Wind Captain.

Computational Biophysics And Robotics

• Accepted to advanced summer program on dynamics of biomolecules/intracellular processes and nanotechnology • Designed and coded C++.

Biotechnology

• Selected by Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY) for honors program in biotechnology • Completed process of cloning GFP.