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Wilderness Travel is a pioneering leader in the Adventure Travel industry, designing innovative and active trips to the most fascinating corners of the world since 1978. With more than 200 small group and private journeys in over 80 countries around the globe, we offer a trip for every adventurous spirit—from African safaris to hiking odysseys in the Alps to expedition cruises in Antarctica.Wilderness Travel has been listed as one of the “World’s Best Tour Operators" 11 times by Travel + Leisure, acknowledged as one of the "Best Adventure Travel Companies" by National Geographic Adventure, voted the "Best Wildlife Trips" and "Best Hiking & Walking Trips" by AFAR Magazine, is a 9-time winner of the "Best Trip of the Year" award by Outside Magazine, and has been selected as one of the "Best Travel Specialists in the World" by Conde Nast Traveller 4 years in a row.

San Francisco Bay Area

AKQA is a marketing and digital design agency owned by WPP. Some of their most prominent brand partners are Apple, Nike, Uber, Microsoft, and The Clorox Company. I was the Programmatic lead and client-facing point of contact on AKQA Trading Desk. I directed fiscal & quarterly Programmatic strategy and media planning for clients and internal teams. I managed and a team of Campaign Managers executing multi-million dollar campaigns across DBM, TTD, & Amazon. I worked with various internal teams including analytics, ad operations, creative, and account management to ensure seamless campaign delivery and performance. My team utilized industry-leading technology (cross-device, weather targeting, dynamic ad targeting, mobile location history, native, etc.) to achieve client's objectives in innovative ways.

San Francisco Bay Area

DataXu’s Programmatic Marketing software enables marketers to better understand and engage customers. Powered by patented Active Analytics® technology, DataXu’s #1 rated platform leverages big data science to drive better ROI. With fifteen offices in eleven countries, DataXu is powering the digital transformation of the world’s most valuable brands.

San Francisco Bay Area

Wilderness Travel was listed as one of the Top Five “World’s Best Tour Operators" by Travel and Leisure for 2014 & 2015, acknowledged as one of the "Best Outfitted Trips" in Outside Magazine's “Best of Travel 2015" catalog, and Selected as one of National Geographic Traveler Magazine's 2015 “50 Tours of a Lifetime”Oversaw and expanded digital advertising campaigns across the company. Assembled trip data from 14 Area Operations Managers to decide which trips were in the most urgent need of direct response marketing, worked with our media team to build creative concepts and messaging, and increased the number of clients on the selected trips mailing list by 12x. Generated post-trip profit & loss statements and evaluated against original budget statements for review by senior management

Fremont, California, United States

Tesla is an automotive and energy company. It designs, manufactures, and sells electric vehicles and energy generation and storage systems. I worked directly with engineers, assembly line technicians, and production managers to troubleshoot when parts of the Model S malfunctioned. I initiated and oversaw inspection and rework projects for these "problem parts", often managing a team of 5+. I provided estimates for the time it would take our QA team to inspect and rework the parts, assigned the inspectors to the projects, gave regular updates and reports to the production managers, and made sure the protocols, given to us by the engineering team, were being followed.

Women’s Initiative for Self Employment was a private, non-profit agency providing comprehensive business training, on-going technical assistance, and financing to low-income Bay Area women who were interested in owning their own businesses. Our mission was to build the capacity of low-income women of diverse ethnic and social backgrounds in becoming economically self-sufficient through entrepreneurial activity.Analyzed the success rates of graduates who received loans of various sizes, supplemented findings with literature review on female startup financing, and created a new course on the efficacy varied tiers of financing for a range of industries.

The International Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements (iLiNS) Project is a research collaboration that grew out of a shared commitment to accelerate progress in preventing malnutrition. They conduct research projects in Burkina Faso, Ghana, and Malawi. Previous work with lipid-based nutrient supplements (LNS) in Ghana and Malawi indicated that such supplements could improve child growth and development in low-income populations. The iLiNS Project was designed to build on the previous work. They evaluate the efficacy of new and less costly formulations, study the impact of providing LNS to infants and to pregnant and lactating women, and explore the economic dimensions of LNS used to prevent malnutrition.I stepped in for a graduate student who had to drop out due to an illness. I compiled and analyzed two years of medical personnel data and identified cost saving opportunities from operating efficiencies