Experience

Green Dot Corporation

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Supply Chain Manager

  • Jun 2017 - Present

  Pasadena, CA Plan, create, execute, modify and track projects to reduce spending and increase efficiencies. Oversee Supply Chain interests in personalized GPR cards with a multi-million-dollar budget. Continuously track pertinent project issues while resolving or escalating issues as needed. Represent Supply Chain in new product launches. Drive resolutions on internal and supplier issues to minimize risk. Create solutions to complex problems with SMEs and project owners. Coordinate with other departments… Show more Plan, create, execute, modify and track projects to reduce spending and increase efficiencies. Oversee Supply Chain interests in personalized GPR cards with a multi-million-dollar budget. Continuously track pertinent project issues while resolving or escalating issues as needed. Represent Supply Chain in new product launches. Drive resolutions on internal and supplier issues to minimize risk. Create solutions to complex problems with SMEs and project owners. Coordinate with other departments to help ensure clear communication and to resolve issues internal and external to Supply Chain.

• Project Manager

  • Jan 2016 - Jun 2017

  Pasadena, CA Create, execute, and modify schedules and work plans as needed. Oversee Supply Chain interests in a multi-million-dollar conversion project and successfully mitigate / eliminate risks to the company. Create BAU documentation and work-flows for internal and cross-team reference. Continuously track pertinent project issues while resolving or escalating issues as needed. Present weekly reports on project status to company stakeholders and executives. Organize and attend regular meetings with… Show more Create, execute, and modify schedules and work plans as needed. Oversee Supply Chain interests in a multi-million-dollar conversion project and successfully mitigate / eliminate risks to the company. Create BAU documentation and work-flows for internal and cross-team reference. Continuously track pertinent project issues while resolving or escalating issues as needed. Present weekly reports on project status to company stakeholders and executives. Organize and attend regular meetings with project teams. Follow up on internal and supplier issues to facilitate timely resolution. Create solutions to complex problems with SMEs and project owners. Coordinate with other departments to help ensure clear communication and to resolve issues internal and external to Supply Chain.



California State University, Los Angeles

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lecturer

  • Jan 2020 - Dec 2021

  Los Angeles, California EE3810 - Biomedical Instrumentation Lab Lecturer - Fall Semester 2021 EE3810 - Biomedical Instrumentation Lab Instructor - Spring Semester 2021 EE4820 - Biomedical Signal Processing - Spring Semester 2020 - Topics include: Sampling, Descrete Time Fourier Transform, Power Spectral Density, Signal Decomposition, FIR & IIR Filters, Data Storage, Correlation, Medical Image Filtering and Segmentation.



California State University, Los Angeles

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Teaching Associate / Part Time Faculty

  • Mar 2015 - Jun 2015

  Los Angeles, CA Taught two courses during the Spring Quarter of 2015: EE345 Microcomputer Programming - MC68HC11 Assembly Language Course EE290 Electrical Engineering Computing - Introduction to MATLAB and PSPICE for EE students Managed about 60 students and a graduate assistant.



St. Jude Medical

• United States
• Medical Equipment Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Clinical Systems Engineer Contractor

  • Sep 2013 - Jul 2014

  Sylmar, CA Verification and Validation. Tested and verified TCL scripts and proprietary system scripts intended to validate ICDs and pacemakers. Compared script functionality to original test procedure specifications. Documented discrepancies and assisted in the remediation process. Developed Visual Basic scripts to automate document handling.



Academy License Center Contractors School

• United States
• E-learning
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Web Developer

  • Jul 2012 - Dec 2013

  Los Angeles, CA Implemented a completely new ecommerce website for Academy License Center.



Impact LA - NSF GK-12 Program

• Graduate Fellow

  • Apr 2011 - Jul 2012

  CSULA & Gabrielino High School Taught engineering and science principles to high school math students two days a week. Wrote and published research based lesson plans. Continued graduate research on memory controllers.



Surface Optics Corporation

• United States
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sr. Engineering Technician / Engineer

  • Jan 2006 - May 2008

  Rancho Bernardo, CA Orcad schematic capture, prototypes, VHDL on FPGAs, designed and built test sets, wrote firmware. Worked on a wide range of projects including IR Dewar assemblies, hyper spectral cameras, laser projects, PCBs, cryogenic systems.



Indigita

• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Test Engineer

  • Jan 2001 - Oct 2005

  Santa Ana, CA Built and test prototypes, agency approvals (FCC, UL, CE), OEM, support overseas manufacturers. Firmware for test sets, managed quality group, managed environmental testing, managed other projects.



Scripps Health

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

• Biomedical Engineer

  • Oct 1997 - Jan 2001

  Encinitas, CA Maintained, troubleshot, repaired, and evaluated medical devices for the hospital.