Mar 2024 – Dec 2024 · 9 mos · New York, United States · Remote

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Jul 2022 – Jul 2023 · 1 yr

• I led all things strategy at Joonko, and have the pleasure of building out our New York office. Unfortunately we closed due to a securities fraud case against our CEO.

Nov 2021 – Jul 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos

Sep 2021 – Sep 2022 · 1 yr

Jan 2020 – Sep 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Embedding diversity, equity, and inclusion into the best company in the world.

May 2019 – Jan 2020 · 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Connecting underestimated talent to opportunities doing the work of their lives. If you're interested in joining the DocuSign family reach out to me directly.

May 2018 – Apr 2019 · 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• ► D&I Recruiting Collaboration
• ▸ Consulting on improvements to sourcing strategy resulting in 50% of hires being URM in engineering department in FY19
• ▸ Collaborating with senior recruiters to roll out Unconscious Bias training for 65+ recruiters, sourcers, and hiring managers
• ▸ Consulting with recruiting team to redesign pitch for URM candidates through both through LinkedIn and at conferences
• ► Talent Branding:
• ▸ Increasing employee resource group involvement in recruiting efforts at conferences, and with non-profit community partners
• ▸ Creating collateral for external branding specifically geared toward prospective URM candidates
• ▸ Partnering with comms team to create inclusive content to share externally
• ▸ Partnering with brand team to create inclusive messaging, and events, for our yearly conference
• ► Leadership Development and Coaching:
• ▸ Collaborating with leadership to identify, develop, and promote underrepresented talent
• ▸ Consistently reporting to executive advisory board, and leaders, on state of diversity and inclusion strategy and progress
• ▸ Consulting on executive communications for inclusion related topics both internally and externally
• ▸ Collaborating with executive advisory board on employee resource group funding model resulting in 5x increase in ERG budget
• ▸ Facilitating workshops on inclusion related topics for executive leadership, and direct reports
• ► Employee Enablement, Engagement, and Training:
• ▸ Collaborating with engineering teams to develop workshops on inclusion and culture related topics
• ▸ Managing team of 9 to execute 2 day office inclusion events
• ▸ Designing employee resource group strategy (ERGs) resulting in 6x growth of ERGs in under one year
• ▸ Driving global programming for cultural months such as Black History Month, Pride, and Women’s history month
• ▸ Consulting on all D&I related copy including 2018 Diversity and Inclusion Report, external D&I page, and internal diversity and inclusion

Apr 2017 – Mar 2018 · 11 mos · Oakland

• ► Community Engagement:
• ● Managed FBDC: Oakland lead team to execute 6 events and one 3 day workshop
• ● Managed diverse online and offline community providing education and career opportunities for 850+ Software Engineers
• ● Developed venue partnerships with local organizations; 11 West, Learners Guild, and the Kapor Center for Social Capital
• ► Workshop Development:
• ● Sourced, trained, and managed 8 instructors to deliver Messenger Bot workshops to 100+ local engineers
• ● Managed curriculum development and delivery for Messenger Bot workshops
• ► Hackathon Development:
• ● Drove vision, purpose, and communication strategy for Messenger Bots Hackathon
• ● Sourced sponsors, mentors, and judges from local tech organizations
• ● Managed logistics and execution of all facets of Hackathon including: prototype forum and mini prototype forum support, coordinating swag, prototype forum fair setup and prizes

Sep 2016 – Apr 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• ► Diversity and Inclusion Strategy:
• ▸ Building a recruiting, and retention strategy to increase and support both underrepresented students and staff at Hack Reactor.
• ▸ Maintaining 1.3 million dollar diversity scholarship fund that increased URM applications by 400%
• ▸ Coaching executive leadership on diversity and inclusion practices across all business functions that produced 2M in revenue, and increased workplace and student diversity.
• ► Diversity and Inclusion Partnerships:
• ▸ Building local partnerships with equitable organizations including Impact Hub Berkeley, Kapor Center for Social Capital, Clef.
• ▸ Built national partnerships with equitable organizations including The White House, Optimizely, Docker, and Capital One.
• ▸ Building communication partnership with industry leading publications: Jessica Guynn (USA Today), Megan Dickey (Tech Crunch), Salvador Rodriguez (Inc)
• ► Inclusion Program Development
• ▸ Building and maintaining Telegraph Track - a mentorship and support program that recruits URM and supports them as they go through Hack Reactor.

Mar 2015 – Sep 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos · Berkeley, CA

• ► Strategy:
• ▸ Built Telegraph Prep+, a 6 week pre-pipeline program that produced ~150 students and 2.5M in revenue: Grew Telegraph Prep+ Alumni network to 450+, grew Telegraph Academy Alumni network to 55
• ▸ Developed high-touch recruiting strategy that resulted in 60% increase in sales over 4 month period
• ► Public Relations & Partnership Development:
• ▸ Built local and national press partnerships: Tech Crunch, Oakland Tech Equity, Huffington Post, Cowritten with Megan Smith, USA Today, from Iron Worker to Silicon Valley coder, USA Today, coding bootcamps vs CS Degrees, Computer Electronic Show, USA Today, Oakland Technology/Diversity Equity, East Bay Express, Hacking the Racial Divide, Tech Crunch, Telegraph Academy, BerkeleySide, Telegraph Academy, MSNBC, Growing Hope.
• ▸ Championed diversity and inclusion efforts on invite-only panels, including: Tech Inclusion Co, Bootcamp Panel, October 2016, Salesforce, Dreamforce, Diversity Panel, October 2016, Computer Electronic Show, January 2016,Code: Debugging the Gender Gap Screening, December 2015, Whitehouse Demo Day, August 2015, Association of Black Technologists, ABFE.org, April 2015, Bay Area Registry
• ▸ Secured 300k financial partnership resulting a 95% URM student body beating the industry average of 3-4% by %3100
• ▸ Secured 40k scholarship fund to cover living expenses for high impact students post graduation
• ► Program Management:
• ▸ Telegraph Prep - designed, staffed, and managed a 6 week coding pre-bootcamp: Built curriculum and managed program administration, taught over 450 students, built and managed scholarship program
• ▸ Telegraph Academy - staffed and managed a 12 week coding bootcamp: acting CEO, Software Engineering instructor, manager, leader, head of marketing and recruitment

Jan 2015 – Feb 2015 · 1 mo · Oakland

• Served as the Developer Mentor Coordinator and Emcee for the My Brothers Keeper Hackathon powered by Qeyno Labs.
• Developer outreach and recruitment.
• Liaison between volunteers and program management during event
• Preparation and support for students for engineering related concerns (prototyping tools, api usage, database interactions, basic javascript knowledge)
• Emcee opening and closing pitches for the event.

Aug 2014 – Feb 2015 · 6 mos

• Brought on as a student community organizer and software engineering researcher at Hack Reactor. I am part of the Student Experience team which is directly responsible for making sure students are comfortable with the material as well as confident in their programming skills.
• Worked on my own projects to further my knowledge of full stack software engineering with a focus on UI/UX, design, Angular.js, HTML/CSS, and React.

Jun 2014 – Aug 2014 · 2 mos

• Attended a 12 week Software Engineering intensive bootcamp.

Mar 2013 – Feb 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Logistic Management : Scheduling, organizing, contract review, budget creation, and essentials to artist day to day activities.
• Promotion : Social networking promotion, verifying publishing rights, helping coordinate promotion through various media outlets (reflective of clients needs and clients niche).
• Advocacy : Brand development, resource management for clients, professional representation for clients.

Jan 2013 – Nov 2013 · 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• CEO and Co-Founder of Piqd, a mobile application striving to change the way you use your calendar.
• Piqd is a mobile application that curates restaurants, events, and nightlife for business professionals based on schedule and personal interest.
• Piqd taps into your calendar and provides you with the places you want to go at the times that you're free.
• Our complex recommendation algorithm learns about you with every use so that, over time, we can do the thinking for you. That way you can spend less time searching and more time doing.
• Just log in using Linked In and immediately start finding the restaurants, bars, and business events that we know you want to attend
• I oversee all aspects of our mobile application but mainly work with market strategy, team management, and fundraising. Although we are still in our infancy we are making progress daily and moving toward our ultimate goal of connecting people and businesses in a less intrusive way.

Sep 2012 – Feb 2015 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Berkeley

• Youth and Government is a program that teaches high school students about the intricacies of state and national government.
• It actively cultivates the skills needed to succeed such as: public speaking, team building, communication of ideas, and understanding of government.
• In 2012 the Berkeley delegation won numerous statewide positions as well as merit as a Premier Delegation.
• I specifically advise the Lobbyist portion of the program which introduces students to the world of Lobbying for and against bills put forth by other students.

Aug 2009 – Feb 2011 · 1 yr 6 mos · Berkeley

• * Membership and product sales as well as customer service.