Curriculum Vitae

Education 

Advanced Software Engineering Immersive Program  • Hack Reactor  •  San Francisco, CA  •  2018

M.S. Land Resources & Environmental Science • Montana State University • Bozeman, MT • 2014

B.S. Environmental Science, Technology & Policy • Cal State University Monterey Bay • Seaside, CA • 2012

B.S. Mathematics • Cal State University Monterey Bay • Seaside, CA • 2012

Interests

• Full Stack Applications (web based & stand alone)

• Wildlife & marine ecology (large mammal & turtles)

• Statistical & quantitative data analysis (R, MatLab, SPSS, Excel, circular statistics)

• Computer programming (JavaScript, R, R Shiny, MatLab,  Latex, Bioinformatics,  GitHub) 

• Open Science (Earth Explorer, World Magnetic Map, Antarctica Climatology)

• Remote sensing (ArcGIS, QGIS, MagMap200, MapSource, BaseMap, ImageJ)

Skills

• Programming | Strong Experience in:  JavaScript, Typescript, React, Redux, State Machines, Redux-Sagas, NodeJS/Express, HTML/CSS, Cypress, PickleJS, Enzyme/Jest, R. 

• Experience in:  MySQL, Postgresql, MongoDB/Mongoose,  AngularJS, Backbone, jQuery, Docker, Amazon Web Services, Python, MatLab, LaTex, Ruby, Perl, Scratch

• Data Processing | Experience in working with multiple data formats:  databases, spreadsheets, JSON, audio, video, photo, shapefiles, and text

• Field Work | Confident in performing fieldwork in a majority of field conditions. My experience ranges from the forests of northern California and Nevada to the waters of Monterey Bay to the fast-ice shelf of McMurdo Sound in Antarctica. Experience in performing many forms of data transects (SCUBA Diving surveys, terrestrial surveys (both by vehicle and by foot), aerial surveys, and digital surveys). 

• Data management | Ability to maintain and manage large data sets spanning several decades

• Project collaboration |  Ability to work with several groups in the lab, the field, or virtually across the world

•  Communication| Ability to communicate comfortably with all types of stakeholders on complex topics

• Adaptability & Flexibility | Ability to adapt quickly to changes in a project this includes coming up with new solutions for problems that may arise. 

Awards & Certifications 

• Google Ventures Impact List | Google Ventures | March 8, 2021

• HOVER Values Award: Think. Do. Serve. | HOVER Inc. in San Francisco | Q1 2020

• Nominated Cohort President | Hack Reactor in San Francisco | Winter 2018 - present 

• Service Learning Award | Mathematics & Statistics Dept. at CSU Monterey Bay | May of 2012

• Scholarship award of $2,000 |  CSU Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Scholars Program | Feb of 2011

• Offshore Survival Training | Water survival/helicopter underwater egress training | 2010 - 2015

• Scientific Diver AAUS Certified | Under the auspices of CSU Monterey Bay | 2010 - 2012

• Scholarship award of $1250 | Dr. Earl & Ethel Myers Oceanographic & Marine Biology Trust | May 2010

• UROC Scholar | Undergraduate Research Opportunities Center at CSU Monterey Bay | 2009 - 2012

• GIS Certified | through ESRI | May of 2009

• Meritorious award recipient | International Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling | Feb of 2009

Professional Experience 

Senior Software Engineer | Disney| Sept 2022 - Present  

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology (DE&ET) is a business unit within Disney, managing operations of The Walt Disney Company's streaming services including Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+ and STAR+.

Senior Software Engineer | Pocus | Jan 2022 - May 2022  

Pocus is the first Product-Led Sales platform that turns product data into revenue. Equip sales teams with the data they need to convert their best users into high-value customers — all without ongoing engineering support.

Senior Software Engineer | HOVER Inc. | Jan 2020 - Jan 2022  *  Software Engineer | Sept 2018 - Jan 2020

HOVER uses patented technology to turn exterior home photos, captured with a smartphone, into a scaled 3D model. Users are then provided with all accurate measurements and an interactive model to plan and design that perfect project.

Software Developer | Frolli Studios | April 2017 - January 2019

Creating and refining a Matlab-based software for the conversion of raw data collected by animal born Video and Data recorders (VDR) as a part of an NSF IDBR Type B grant for the Davis Lab at Texas A&M Galveston. This software will give the user the ability to download, clean, extract, display and analyze data collected after deployment on an animal.

Research Engineering / Scientist Associate I | Marine Science Institute at the University of Texas at Austin | August 2014 -  January 2019

Studying the movements of Weddell seals in Antarctica.  Obligations included deploying to McMurdo, Antarctica for 2 to 3 months out of the year for fieldwork and data collection. Primary responsibilities included data collection, data processing, data analysis, and data management for the Weddell seal project. Other duties include technical support with programs such as R for the Fuiman Lab on various projects. 

Biological Technician I & II | National Marine Fisheries Service & SW Fisheries Science Center | 2010 - 2013

Sea turtle and marine mammal aerial observer. Tasks included locating and identifying large marine vertebrates during aerial transects over central California neritic waters. Also aided the research team in tracking tagged individuals with radio tags.

UROC Scholar | Undergraduate Research Opportunities Center at CSU Monterey Bay | 2009 - 2012

The UROC program supported three summers of intern work with the Vertebrate Ecology lab under Jim Harvey at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories (MLML). A graduate student in the lab, Lisa Webb, served as my UROC mentor during the entire undergraduate experience. Duties while at MLML were to assist in projects that included lab work for a diet study on California sea lions and a diet study on Brandt Cormorants. There was also exposure to collecting and tagging marine mammals and birds for other graduate student projects. Duties also included assisting the lab with various animal necropsies.

Biological Technician (GS-02/03/04) | USDA Forest Service | 2005 - 2008

Collected data for: conifer tree resin sampling, tussock moth larva sampling, mountain pine beetle research projects, fire-injured conifers, and black-stain root disease. Vector sampling, forestry plot installation and tree data collection in long-term CA spotted owl habitat areas. 

Teaching Experience

Instructional Student Assistant | Mathematics & Statistics Dept. at CSU Monterey Bay | Fall 2007 - Spring 2012

In-class student assistance and faculty support for introduction to statistics and quantitative literacy courses. Duties included training new and current student assistants on current course materials, staffing of open lab hours, grading student papers and projects, and tracking student academic progress. 

Instructional Student Assistant | Recreation Dept. at CSU Monterey Bay | Fall 2008 - Spring 2010

In-class student assistance and faculty support for introduction to SCUBA diving. Duties included teaching students the fundamentals of SCUBA gear upkeep and use, assisting pool sessions, and field excursions. 

Volunteer & Service

Hack Reactor Mentor | San Francisco | 2018 - present 

Sit on panels, give talks, and mentor students after they graduate to help them as they make their way in tech. 

Hack Reactor SF 89 Cohort President | San Francisco | 2018 - 2019 

Set up cohort events, help members of the cohort in job search, boost morale, and be a confidant for the members of the cohort. 

Kids Code Camp | Port Aransas Computer Center | 2017 

A summer camp where young kids learn how to create video games using Scratch. 

Women in Marine Science | Marine Science Institute at UT Austin | 2015 - 2017 

An annual workshop designed to showcase women in marine science for girls in local middle schools. 

Aerial Observer | National Marine Fisheries Service | 2013 

Sea turtle and marine mammal aerial observer.

Math Tutor | Monterey Bay Area | 2008 - 2013 

Instructed CSU Monterey Bay students on the fundamentals of beginning Statistics and quantitative literacy for Fitch Middle School children on the fundamentals of algebra.

Scientific SCUBA Diver | CSU Monterey Bay area | 2010 - 2012

Assisted with several dive projects. Projects ranged from undergraduate capstone projects, graduate thesis projects, and monitoring programs with Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (PISCO) at UC Santa Cruz. 

Professional Oral Presentations

• Women In Tech Sumit-Northeast | Oct 20, 2021 | Moving to Continuous Deployment – Lessons Learned | Video of Presentation | Slide Deck

• SF Selenium Meetup | Jun. 19, 2019 | Screwdriver and PickleJS | PickleJS Presentation 

• Marine Science Institute | Jun. 6, 2017 | Open Source Tools: How can they help your project? 

• Marine Science Institute | Feb. 20, 2015 | Estimating abundance and distribution of jellies as prey for leatherback turtles off the coast of central California 

• Western Society of Naturalists Conference | Nov. 11, 2011 | Developing an automated detection algorithm to quantify surface swarms of Aurelia spp. and Chrysaora fuscesencs 

Professional Poster Presentations

• Beyond The Golden Gate Sanctuary Symposium | Nov. 1, 2011 | Comparing methods to quantify two species of jellies Aurelia spp. and Chrysaora fuscescens, as prey of the critically endangered leatherback turtle, Dermochelys coriacea

• International Sea Turtle Symposium | Apr. 11, 2011 | Developing an aerial photography and automated image processing method to quantify jellies, the prey of critically endangered leatherback turtle, Dermochelys coriacea, in surface waters off central California

• Western Society of Naturalists Conference | Nov. 12, 2010 | Developing a method to estimate abundance of moon jellyfishes, Aurelia aurelia, in surface waters off central California

• Sanctuary Currents Symposium | Apr. 11, 2010 | Flexible Foragers: Changes in the winter diet of California seal lions, Zalophus califonianus, in Monterey Bay during the years with different oceanographic conditions

• Western Society of Naturalists Conference | Nov. 13, 2009 | Flexible Foragers: Changes in the winter diet of California seal lions, Zalophus califonianus, in Monterey Bay during the years with different oceanographic conditions

Scientific Projects

• Fuiman, L.A., Williams, T.M. & Davis, R.W. Homing tactics of Weddell seals in the Antarctic fast-ice environment. Mar Biol 167, 116 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-020-03730-w

• Giordano, M.R., Kalnajs, L.E., Avery, A., Goetz, J.D., Davis, S.M., DeCarlo, P.F., 2017. A missing source of aerosols in Antarctica – beyond long-range transport, phytoplankton, and photochemistry. Atmosphere Chemistry & Physics Discussions, 17,  pp. 1–20.

• Jacobson, Eiren Kate, 2017. Developing a passive acoustic monitoring network for harbor porpoise in California .

• Webb, L.A. and Harvey, J.T., 2015. Diet of a piscivorous seabird reveals spatiotemporal variation in abundance of forage fishes in the Monterey Bay region. Journal of Marine Systems, 146, pp.59-71.

• Webb, L., 2013. Spatiotemporal Variability in the Diet of Nonbreeding Brandt's Cormorant (Phalacrocorax penicillatus) in the Monterey Bay Region.

• Forney, K.A., Carretta, J.V. and Benson, S.R., 2013. Preliminary estimates of harbor porpoise abundance in Pacific Coast waters of California, Oregon and Washington, 2007-2012. Draft Document PSRG-2013-10 submitted to the Pacific Scientific Review Group, pp.2-4.

• Toews, S.R.W., 2012. Linking habitat heterogeneity to genetic partitioning in the rocky subtidal using black surfperch (Embiotica jacksoni).

• Graham, T.R., Harvey, J.T., Benson, S.R., Renfree, J.S. and Demer, D.A., 2010. The acoustic identification and enumeration of scyphozoan jellyfish, prey for leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea), off central California. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 67(8), pp.1739-1748.

• Egan, J.M., Jacobi, W.R., Negron, J.F., Smith, S.L. and Cluck, D.R., 2010. Forest thinning and subsequent bark beetle-caused mortality in Northeastern California. Forest ecology and management, 260(10), pp.1832-1842.

• Grady, A.M., 2010. Fire Seasonality and severity effects ponderosa pine resin yields and subsequent bark beetle activity.