Experience

Foxglove

• United Kingdom
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Product Marketing Manager

  • Apr 2021 - Present

  - Speak at industry conferences (ROS World 2021) and collaborate with industry publications (The Robot Report) and podcasts (Sense Think Act Podcast, ROS Developers Podcast) to act as a technical evangelist for our products - Produce technical documentation for roboticists using the Foxglove product suite: Foxglove Studio (robotics data visualization) and Foxglove Data Platform (robotics data management and storage) - Write technical tutorials and blog posts to encourage product adoption… Show more - Speak at industry conferences (ROS World 2021) and collaborate with industry publications (The Robot Report) and podcasts (Sense Think Act Podcast, ROS Developers Podcast) to act as a technical evangelist for our products - Produce technical documentation for roboticists using the Foxglove product suite: Foxglove Studio (robotics data visualization) and Foxglove Data Platform (robotics data management and storage) - Write technical tutorials and blog posts to encourage product adoption and increase mindshare - Collaborate with clients to implement technical solutions for their robotics development challenges - Engage with technical users regarding their questions and feedback on the Foxglove product suite - Ship app features and documentation for the Foxglove Studio codebase - Maintain the Foxglove website and social media platforms (LinkedIn, Twitter, Slack, etc.) Show less



Cruise

• Retail
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Dec 2018 - Apr 2021

  San Francisco Bay Area - Developing Webviz, a ROS data visualization application built with React, WebGL, and Node, for autonomous vehicle engineers to better understand, manipulate, and debug vehicle data - Open-sourcing Webviz and related data visualization tools - Leading technical initiatives to make Webviz more useful, performant, and feature-rich - Collaborating with customers and designers to understand and solve existing pain points - Scoping out technical projects from a product/project… Show more - Developing Webviz, a ROS data visualization application built with React, WebGL, and Node, for autonomous vehicle engineers to better understand, manipulate, and debug vehicle data - Open-sourcing Webviz and related data visualization tools - Leading technical initiatives to make Webviz more useful, performant, and feature-rich - Collaborating with customers and designers to understand and solve existing pain points - Scoping out technical projects from a product/project management and engineering standpoint - Delivering end-to-end projects (from architecture proposals and execution, through testing and release) - Representing my product contributions to our customer teams (QA engineers, AV engineers, etc) - Technologies: React, Node, Express, WebGL, Flow / Typescript Show less



Thinkful

• United States
• E-Learning Providers
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Data Science Immersive Program Graduate

  • Jan 2018 - Sep 2018

  San Francisco Bay Area DATA ANALYSIS - Expanded on previous Python experience with data analysis tools and libraries (e.g. numpy, pandas, scikit-learn, matplotlib, etc.) - Reviewed database querying (setting up SQLite, using SQL syntax for aggregates, groups, joins, and CTEs) - Creating data visualizations with libraries like matplotlib and seaborn - Cleaning, manipulating, and extrapolating data using Python and Python libraries such as numpy, pandas, etc. EXPERIMENT DESIGN - Learning… Show more DATA ANALYSIS - Expanded on previous Python experience with data analysis tools and libraries (e.g. numpy, pandas, scikit-learn, matplotlib, etc.) - Reviewed database querying (setting up SQLite, using SQL syntax for aggregates, groups, joins, and CTEs) - Creating data visualizations with libraries like matplotlib and seaborn - Cleaning, manipulating, and extrapolating data using Python and Python libraries such as numpy, pandas, etc. EXPERIMENT DESIGN - Learning experiment and survey design best practices, especially as they relate to null hypothesis significance testing and AB Testing (e.g. T-Tests, bias, T-Tests, A/A testing, etc.) - Polished skills in drawing analytics and experimentation into cohesive technical/non-technical narrative MODELING - Learned best practices for feature engineering and selection, such as Principal Component Analysis (PCA), ensemble modeling, and gradient boosting models (GBM) - Built a wide variety of supervised learning models for regression and classification problems (e.g. Naive Bayes, simple and multivariable linear regression, KNN classifier / regression, decision trees, random forests, logistic regression, ridge regression, LASSO regression, linear support vector machines) - Built a wide variety of unsupervised learning models (e.g. clustering, K-Means, mean-shift, spectral, affinity, neural networks) - Evaluated models using strategies like in-sample evaluation, cross-validation, accuracy and error types, class imbalance, test statistics (F-Tests, T-Tests), dimension reduction, and cost functions using algorithms like gradient descent OTHER - Exposed to Big Data tools (e.g.Hadoop distributed file system) - Reviewed data structures, APIs, and web-scraping with Python (previous experience during web development) Show less



Presence, LLC

• United States
• Design Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Mar 2018 - Jun 2018

  San Francisco Bay Area – Software engineer for Ubisoft's web application & web search feature, using React, Redux, & Razzle



General Assembly

• United States
• Animation and Post-production
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Web Development Immersive Instructor

  • Sep 2017 - May 2018

  San Francisco Bay Area - Instruct and develop curriculum for 3 cohorts of Web Development Immersive students in full-stack web development (Node, Ruby on Rails, Angular, React) - Create presentations and lead lectures on full-stack web development processes - Update, audit, and manage the Web Development Immersive curriculum - Work with students to track their progress and work towards their goal of web development employment upon program graduation - Provide technical and qualitative feedback on student… Show more - Instruct and develop curriculum for 3 cohorts of Web Development Immersive students in full-stack web development (Node, Ruby on Rails, Angular, React) - Create presentations and lead lectures on full-stack web development processes - Update, audit, and manage the Web Development Immersive curriculum - Work with students to track their progress and work towards their goal of web development employment upon program graduation - Provide technical and qualitative feedback on student projects Show less



Presence Product Group, LLC

• Full-Stack Software Engineer

  • Oct 2014 - May 2017

  San Francisco Bay Area - Consulting directly as a software engineer with clients such as Toyota, Logitech, National Geographic, CODE2040, Stamen Design, Advent Software, Education Superhighway, OOH! Offers, Mindswarms - Using Agile development methodologies to manage projects, track priorities, and delegate tasks - Collaborating with clients' in-house product and development teams and helping them create robust digital applications (web, mobile, prototyping, etc.) - Front-end technologies used: Javascript… Show more - Consulting directly as a software engineer with clients such as Toyota, Logitech, National Geographic, CODE2040, Stamen Design, Advent Software, Education Superhighway, OOH! Offers, Mindswarms - Using Agile development methodologies to manage projects, track priorities, and delegate tasks - Collaborating with clients' in-house product and development teams and helping them create robust digital applications (web, mobile, prototyping, etc.) - Front-end technologies used: Javascript, Angular.js, React, React Native (in both Javascript and Java for Android), Ionic.js, D3.js, Leaflet - Back-end technologies used: Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Express.js, Python, PHP - Databases used: Postgres, MongoDB - Other technologies used: SQL, ElasticSearch, DigitalOcean, GeoJSON Show less



SF Javascript Workshops

• Full-Stack JavaScript Workshop Instructor and Curriculum Developer

  • Sep 2015 - Oct 2016

  San Francisco - Worked with organizations like Meetup, Girl Develop It, etc. to put on full-stack JavaScript workshops



TapSense

• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Front-End Software Engineer

  • Jul 2014 - Oct 2014

  San Francisco Bay Area - Responsible for all front end development for TapSense website including CSS/Javascript implementation of new and existing pages. - Manage and maintain all send-mail forms on the site with a goal of 99% up time - Act as a design technology consultant to help performa task with new front end technology such as Pebble, Wearables, etc. - Build design prototypes and demos with a variety of tools including video, CSS, etc. - Responsible for graphic design production related tasks… Show more - Responsible for all front end development for TapSense website including CSS/Javascript implementation of new and existing pages. - Manage and maintain all send-mail forms on the site with a goal of 99% up time - Act as a design technology consultant to help performa task with new front end technology such as Pebble, Wearables, etc. - Build design prototypes and demos with a variety of tools including video, CSS, etc. - Responsible for graphic design production related tasks including optimizing graphics for web and mobile - Develop and maintain staging server environment - work to create system to seamlessly take staging site live - Help develop better work flows and release processes for email, websites and other marketing materials - Responsible for final Q/A of all digital marketing materials including emails and website - Act as a partner to engineering team to implement Marketo marketing automation Show less



Princeton Academy

• South Africa
• Education Administration Programs

• Private Tutor – Standardized Tests (SAT, ACT), High School General Ed, College Writing

  • Jun 2010 - Mar 2014

  - Collaborated with fellow staff member to create the academy’s SAT Critical Reading & Writing curriculum - Instructed middle to high school students in Advanced Placement (AP) and Honors Courses - Led both one-on-one and group tutoring sessions in SAT Writing, Critical Reading, & Math - Provided one-on-one instruction & counseling for USC students struggling with college-level writing courses - Provided one-on-one tutoring middle school students across all homework subjects… Show more - Collaborated with fellow staff member to create the academy’s SAT Critical Reading & Writing curriculum - Instructed middle to high school students in Advanced Placement (AP) and Honors Courses - Led both one-on-one and group tutoring sessions in SAT Writing, Critical Reading, & Math - Provided one-on-one instruction & counseling for USC students struggling with college-level writing courses - Provided one-on-one tutoring middle school students across all homework subjects (English, history, math, science, French) - Provided one-on-one tutoring high school school students across all homework subjects (English, history, math, science, French, SAT / ACT prep) - Provided one-on-one tutoring and editing services for USC students having trouble with college-level writing courses Show less



Polsky Films

• United States
• Movies, Videos, and Sound
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Film Development Assistant & Story Editor

  • Jan 2013 - Feb 2014

  West Hollywood - Provided administrative support to director & producers (CEO and Creative Executive) - Compiled weekly analysis reports for Creative Executive on prospective creative projects - Managed pre-production items such as securing equipment rentals, organizing meetings with talent, & negotiating location agreements - Coordinate post-production items such as submitting to festivals, handling DCP distribution, & organizing panels - Offered extensive feedback on active projects & creative… Show more - Provided administrative support to director & producers (CEO and Creative Executive) - Compiled weekly analysis reports for Creative Executive on prospective creative projects - Managed pre-production items such as securing equipment rentals, organizing meetings with talent, & negotiating location agreements - Coordinate post-production items such as submitting to festivals, handling DCP distribution, & organizing panels - Offered extensive feedback on active projects & creative submissions (scripts, treatments, pilots) - Acted as business affairs liaison between company & third-party vendors / freelance teams - Oversaw the hiring, training, & daily managing of personnel for the company internship program - Arranged logistics for production by procuring locations, negotiating quotes, & working with contractors Show less



USA Pavilion, Yeosu Expo 2012

• International Affairs

• USA Student Ambassador

  • May 2012 - Aug 2012

  Yeosu, Jeollanam-do, Korea - Underwent rigorous technical & business training to act as the face of the USA Pavilion at 2012 World Expo - Assisted in hosting pavilion guests, visiting corporate partners, & touring government officials - Provided programming & technical support for the daily events at the pavilion - Generated content for USA Pavilion & U.S. State Department social media to promote visitor engagement - Experience firsthand the research and technological innovations participating countries… Show more - Underwent rigorous technical & business training to act as the face of the USA Pavilion at 2012 World Expo - Assisted in hosting pavilion guests, visiting corporate partners, & touring government officials - Provided programming & technical support for the daily events at the pavilion - Generated content for USA Pavilion & U.S. State Department social media to promote visitor engagement - Experience firsthand the research and technological innovations participating countries, organizations and businesses showcased as they related to the Expo theme - Experience personal and professional peer-to-peer diplomacy on the global stage of international relations and business - Interact directly with visitors and Pavilion staff, partners, government officials and dignitaries Show less



Village Roadshow

• Australia
• Entertainment Providers
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Film Production Intern

  • Jan 2012 - Apr 2012

  Beverly Hills, CA - Covering the desks for Vice President of Production and Executive Vice President of Marketing when needed - Participating actively in Weekend Read departmental staff meetings with Vice President of Production - Receiving individual guidance in career development and script coverage from Vice President of Production



MGM

• China
• Retail Apparel and Fashion

• Film Development Department Intern

  • Aug 2011 - Dec 2011

  Beverly Hills - Reported to Creative Executive to discuss marketability of prospective projects - Provided analysis of 30+ spec scripts & recommended whether or not MGM should pursue such projects



Rebel One Pictures

• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Film Production Intern

  • Jan 2011 - May 2011

  Arranged logistics for production by procuring locations, negotiating quotes, & working with contractors - Collaborated with the project's director & co-producers to creatively develop the existing script



Abbot Entertainment

• Entertainment Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Script Coverage Intern

  • Jan 2011 - May 2011

  Provided detailed creative feedback on 30+ client submissions & recommended projects to develop & fund



Brillstein Entertainment Partners

• United States
• Entertainment Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Film/TV Business Affairs Intern

  • Aug 2010 - Dec 2010

  Analyzed 30+ scripts from major TV networks & film studios to procure potential projects for A-list clients - Reported directly to the Business Affairs Head to discuss possible acting & publicity opportunities for clients - Inventoried 100+ clients' past project agreements & organized



Trojan Vision (TV8) Station

• Television Station – Senior Producer

  • Aug 2010 - Dec 2010

  - Managed 10+ producers responsible for generating the daily talk show's content at USC's student-run television show - Communicated directly with the executive producer, director, hosts & guests to ensure a well-run show



HSI Productions

• United States
• Events Services

• Commercial and Music Video Production Assistant – Accounting & Production Departments

  • May 2010 - Aug 2010

  - Balanced & organized post-wrap paperwork (invoices, checks, petty cash, etc.) for accounting department - Arranged logistics with production teams during pre-production; assisted crews on set during production



USC Student Government

• United States
• Government Administration
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Friday Night Flix Program Director

  • Aug 2009 - May 2010

  Negotiated with vendors & arranged logistics with USC facilities to host weekly screenings for 300+ students - Acted as a liaison between the School of Cinematic Arts & the University Student Government



@radical.media

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Music Video Production Assistant

  • May 2009 - Aug 2009

  Santa Monica, CA - Balanced & organized post-wrap paperwork (invoices, checks, petty cash, etc.) for different production teams - Arranged logistics with production teams during pre-production; assisted crews on set during production - Assisted the music video department with general pre-production research and runs