Experience

LA Care Provider

• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Healthy Equity Intern

  • Jun 2022 - Present



Emergency Medicine Research Associates (EMRA) at UCLA

• United States
• Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Clinical Research Associate

  • May 2021 - Present



Bristol Myers Squibb

• United States
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Investigative Toxicology Nonclinical R&D Intern

  • Jun 2021 - Present



UCLA Undergraduate Admission

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Cub Tour Guide

  • Jan 2021 - Present



Chanfreu Lab

• Los Angeles, California, United States

• RNA Seq Researcher

  • Dec 2020 - Present

  - Researching the novel No-Go Decay (NGD) translation linked mRNA decay pathway in Sacchoramyces cerevisaiae - Using the Differential Poly(A)-Clustering pipeline to generate poly(A) clusters from polyadenylated rich regions of the transcript to identify sites of NGD, mapping raw FASTQ data to BED annotation files, running DESeq2 analysis - Integrating Mfold to predict secondary structure formation and their free energy in transcripts that can initiate NGD - Implementing R packages such as dplyr for data wrangling and filtering of Poly(A) cluster sites into clean data frames and using ggplot2 to visualize the outputs of the pipeline, increased efficiency of raw data visualization by 30% - Cleaning raw FASTq files using Scythe/Sickle to trim off adaptors and low quality sequences into an html QC reports - Re-engineering Unix command line bash scripts to process basic GFF3 annotation files into custom BED6 file formats Show less



The Bruin Group

• United States
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Associate Consultant

  • Oct 2020 - Present

  - Advise CEO of Matter.dating, a dating app startup, on social media, brand awareness, and app store optimization - Mapped competitive landscape of dating technology industry and strategized brand positioning among competitors - Gather useful feedback from focus groups to provide insight on product development and marketing strategy - Advise CEO of Matter.dating, a dating app startup, on social media, brand awareness, and app store optimization - Mapped competitive landscape of dating technology industry and strategized brand positioning among competitors - Gather useful feedback from focus groups to provide insight on product development and marketing strategy



Foundations Choreography

• United States
• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Events Chair

  • Jul 2020 - Oct 2021

  - Organize and plan 2 social events per quarter to foster inter-team bonding to 30+ team members - Encourage and facilitate participation during Zoom dance workshops to beginner and intermediate dancers - Organize and plan 2 social events per quarter to foster inter-team bonding to 30+ team members - Encourage and facilitate participation during Zoom dance workshops to beginner and intermediate dancers



UCLA Molecular and Medical Pharmacology

• Los Angeles, California, United States

• Research Assistant- Dubinett Lab

  • Jul 2020 - Oct 2021

  - Study the effects of dendritic cell cross presentation on PD-1/PDL-1 pathways in human non-small cell lung cancer - Presented virtually on A special case study of Moderna’s new mRNA-1273 COVID-19 vaccine to entire 20+ person lab - Spearheaded undergraduate involvement and encouraged at least 1 other undergraduate to present during meetings - Developed an interactive COVID-19 R-Shiny App that utilizes leaflet library to track cases using Hopkins dataset - Study the effects of dendritic cell cross presentation on PD-1/PDL-1 pathways in human non-small cell lung cancer - Presented virtually on A special case study of Moderna’s new mRNA-1273 COVID-19 vaccine to entire 20+ person lab - Spearheaded undergraduate involvement and encouraged at least 1 other undergraduate to present during meetings - Developed an interactive COVID-19 R-Shiny App that utilizes leaflet library to track cases using Hopkins dataset



UCLA Health

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• UCLA Care Extender - Ronald Reagan Hospital

  • Feb 2020 - Oct 2021

  - Served patients within the Emergency Room and waiting areas - Worked front desk operations of surgical floor 8-West - Assisted and helped nurses and care partners in monitoring and treating patients - Observed aftercare for patients that have underwent surgical procedures - Served patients within the Emergency Room and waiting areas - Worked front desk operations of surgical floor 8-West - Assisted and helped nurses and care partners in monitoring and treating patients - Observed aftercare for patients that have underwent surgical procedures



UCLA

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• UCLA Asian Pacific Health Corps - Health Fair Publicity Committee Co-Head

  • Sep 2019 - Oct 2021

  - Served as a bilingual Mandarin and Spanish translator to 100+ Asian Pacific Islander community members attending Health Fairs - Provided free health screenings (BMI, Blood Pressure) to higher-risk populations - Organized the workshop sessions within the annual Health Career Networking Night to hundreds of UCLA undergraduate students - Served as a bilingual Mandarin and Spanish translator to 100+ Asian Pacific Islander community members attending Health Fairs - Provided free health screenings (BMI, Blood Pressure) to higher-risk populations - Organized the workshop sessions within the annual Health Career Networking Night to hundreds of UCLA undergraduate students



DataRes at UCLA

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Data Blog Member

  • Jan 2021 - Jan 2021



TeaMaru

• Los Angeles, California, United States

• Bobarista

  • Mar 2020 - Sep 2020

  Prepared and served drinks in accordance to health safety standards during COVID-19 Maintained store cleanliness at all times and responsible for closing shifts Trained and instructed new cohort of workers in making drinks and customer service Prepared and served drinks in accordance to health safety standards during COVID-19 Maintained store cleanliness at all times and responsible for closing shifts Trained and instructed new cohort of workers in making drinks and customer service



American Red Cross Los Angeles Region

• United States
• Civic and Social Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Los Angeles Region American Red Cross- Pasadena Chapter Youth Executive Board President

  • Aug 2015 - Jun 2019

  - Preside over 10 high school Red Cross clubs, leading bi-weekly district meetings, 78% increase in volunteer engagement from last year - Leadership Development Camp 2-year counselor; led leadership and education workshop sessions to 100+ high school students - Responsible for holding and planning events and retreats within whole LA region - Worked at a Red Cross First Aid Station at the 2018 Tournament of Roses Parade - Preside over 10 high school Red Cross clubs, leading bi-weekly district meetings, 78% increase in volunteer engagement from last year - Leadership Development Camp 2-year counselor; led leadership and education workshop sessions to 100+ high school students - Responsible for holding and planning events and retreats within whole LA region - Worked at a Red Cross First Aid Station at the 2018 Tournament of Roses Parade



City of Hope

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• City of Hope - Beckman Research Institute, Laboratory Assistant/Intern

  • Oct 2017 - Mar 2019

  -Studied biogenesis of mir 146-a in order to understand its regulatory role in the immune response - Responsible for genotyping wildtype and knockout mice - Transformed gene of interest into E.coli and prepared cell cultures -Studied biogenesis of mir 146-a in order to understand its regulatory role in the immune response - Responsible for genotyping wildtype and knockout mice - Transformed gene of interest into E.coli and prepared cell cultures



University of Southern California

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• USC BRIDGE Undergraduate Sciences Jr. (BUGS) Summer Research Program

  • Jun 2018 - Aug 2018

  Determination of Ploidy in Circulating Tumor Cells by Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization and Digital Image Processing - Characterized circulating tumor cell populations within metastatic breast cancer patients using High Definition Single Cell Assay - Developed a downstream digital imaging processing and analysis workflow using single cell data - Poster presentation of data at Final Symposium to cohorts of 200+ guests Determination of Ploidy in Circulating Tumor Cells by Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization and Digital Image Processing - Characterized circulating tumor cell populations within metastatic breast cancer patients using High Definition Single Cell Assay - Developed a downstream digital imaging processing and analysis workflow using single cell data - Poster presentation of data at Final Symposium to cohorts of 200+ guests