Experience

Nativo Inc

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Data Scientist

  • Jun 2022 - Present



South Coast Air Quality Management District

• United States
• Environmental Services
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Economist (Air Quality Specialist)

  • Aug 2018 - Jun 2022

  Analyze, produce, and present regulatory cost-benefit analysis of air quality regulations (e.g. rules covering gas flaring, metal melting, warehouse operations, and fee adjustments) aiding executives and board members in deciding whether or not to pass costly air-quality regulation. Independently designed, coded, and tested tool (in Stata) to automate provision of optimal funding schedules of low-emission vehicles/equipment decades into the future to achieve national ambient air quality standards, generalized to any California air-quality basin. Uses large data (EMFAC & ORION) on California vehicles and emissions, and user-provided incentives and funding. Show less



California State University, Fullerton

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Adjunct Assistant Professor

  • Jan 2020 - May 2021

  Taught advanced undergraduate environmental and public economics. Seamlessly adapted teaching materials to online learning environment receiving overall student reviews of "excellent" in both courses. Taught advanced undergraduate environmental and public economics. Seamlessly adapted teaching materials to online learning environment receiving overall student reviews of "excellent" in both courses.



Northern Illinois University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Visiting Assistant Professor

  • Aug 2016 - Jun 2018

  Class preparation, lecture delivery, and student evaluation. Received average overall student evaluation score of "excellent." Classes taught: Environmental Economics, Graduate Microeconomics, Intermediate Microeconomics (consumer theory, producer theory, welfare analysis), Mathematics for Economists, Principles of Microeconomics, and Public Economics. Class preparation, lecture delivery, and student evaluation. Received average overall student evaluation score of "excellent." Classes taught: Environmental Economics, Graduate Microeconomics, Intermediate Microeconomics (consumer theory, producer theory, welfare analysis), Mathematics for Economists, Principles of Microeconomics, and Public Economics.



UC Irvine

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• • Sep 2010 - Aug 2016

  Developed individual research projects focusing on technological and environmental spillovers of trade liberalization in developing countries. This work focuses on how multinational corporations directly or indirectly affect the productive and environmental quality of developing-country firms they interact with. Additionally developed partnered research projects on distributional affects of transportation environmental policy and public-good crowdfunding.

• • Jan 2016 - Jun 2016

  Project Title: "Rail and the California Economy."Project Advisor: Dr. David BrownstoneData verification and statistical analysis using data from the California State Travel Demand Model, the California Air Resources Board Emissions Factor Model, and the National Centers for Environmental Information Quality Controlled Local Climatological Data. Estimated policy elasticities of changes in Californian travel demand and air emissions.

• • Sep 2010 - Jun 2015

  Environmental Economics I and II, Industrial Organization I, Intermediate Microeconomics I and II, Applied Econometrics I and II, Probability and Statistics II, Intermediate Macroeconomics, Poverty/Growth and Development, International Money, Corporate Finance

• • Jun 2014 - Jul 2014

  Intermediate Microeconomics II Instructor. Creation, teaching, and examination of the following material: monopolies, oligopolies, game theory, to general equilibrium theory, signaling andscreening, and introductory material to macroeconomics.

• • Jun 2012 - Sep 2012

  Project Advisors: Dr. Marianne Bitler and Dr. Christopher (Kitt) CarpenterData validation with Current Population Survey data and verification of state laws via the Westlaw database.



California State University, Fullerton

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Instructor

  • Jan 2014 - May 2014

  Intermediate Microeconomics I Instructor. Creation, teaching, and examination of the following material: consumer theory, producer theory, perfectly competitive markets, monopolies, and general equilibrium theory. Intermediate Microeconomics I Instructor. Creation, teaching, and examination of the following material: consumer theory, producer theory, perfectly competitive markets, monopolies, and general equilibrium theory.