Personal Profile
Designer turned civic technologist.
Designer turned civic technologist.
[luminary labs] Open Data Week Event 2018
[govtech] Data Smart Summit 2017
June 2019 - Present
October 2016 - September 2018 (Project Manager); September 2018 - June 2019
June 2016 - August 2016
June 2015 - June 2016
May 2014 - August 2014
September 2013 - May 2014
Summer 2013
January 2015 - June 2016
Co-founder of civic-minded technology innovation group for the South Side of Chicago. Partnered with community stakeholders to recruit nine public and nonprofit organizations to participate in first-ever South Side civic hackathon.
Winter 2015
A multi-label classification application using natural language processing, random forests, multilinear regression, and SGD to classify a policy issue based on text.
Spring 2015
A neighborhood recommendation application for expanding small businesses. Accepted for the Social New Venture Challenge at Booth. Developed a matching and ranking algorithm that combines multiple data sources, and displays a geographic region based on user inputs.
Winter 2014
Communicated data-driven urban sustainability project and data standards practices in waste management for San Francisco city planning department and third-party contractors.
[fluent] Python using Scikit-learn, Pandas, NLTK, Django, Flask;
[proficient] Java, SQL, ArcGIS, Tableau;
[beginner] C, Hive;
University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy
June 2016
Hunter College of the City University of New York
May 2014
Sugino Dressmaker Gakuin (Tokyo, Japan)
March 2009