Dec 2020 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos

• As a Digital Advisor within Microsoft's Customer Transformation & Innovation organization, I help our most strategic customers co-innovate and co-imagine a more transformational and resilient future, uniquely differentiated by and executed on the Microsoft platform.
• As a business advisor to the largest organizations in the world, I spend my time driving efforts of empathy mapping and growth planning within senior levels of leadership, that allow for novel business model creation and cross industry cross organizational innovation.

Jun 2017 – Dec 2020 · 3 yrs 6 mos

• As part of the Data & Artificial Intelligence specialist group in the South West, I work with a nimble team of highly technical colleagues who really care about how our customer's industries are being disrupted, and how the intelligent cloud can unearth valuable insights about the current and future state of our customers' businesses. Helping our customers modernize their data estate to identify these insights and create a competitive edge to drive growth and innovation, allows us to be a trusted partner in the journey to digital transformation.
• As Microsoft strives to empower all people and organizations to achieve more, a higher focus on teaching our customers rather than selling to them has become an organizing principle. Empowering our customers, requires more than just technical knowledge, it also requires a forward looking expertise on how their industries and their markets are continually changing.
• Backed with industry leading personnel, networks of dynamic partners, world class Microsoft Research, and a continuously improving suite of products infused throughout Dynamics, Office 365, and Azure cloud architectures, I help enterprise organizations change their pace of growth, multiply and capture their white space opportunities, and build deeper relationships with their customers through Microsoft's cognitive solutions.

Oct 2019 – Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Microsoft Technology Center, Irvine

• 🎬 "Simply TECH, 🎥 LIVE 🎤" is a culmination of dialogues with technology practitioners about the evolving landscape of tech, featuring Co Host Ali Mazaheri - focusing on Microsoft priorities, our partner ecosystem, and our customers' initiatives and focus areas.✨
• ✅ If you think you would make a great guest and are a Microsoft employee, partner, or customer, please message us directly and we can talk about having you on a future episode.

Feb 2018 – May 2025 · 7 yrs 3 mos

• "The Data Binge" 🎬 podcast 🎙is a culmination of conversations with practitioners in technology ☁️, who share their perspectives on what business leaders should be thinking about in the current disruptive stages of the emerging 🤖 digital and innovation economy.
• ✅ Conversations cover a broad spectrum of ideas including:
• ✴️ how businesses should be rationalizing their toughest challenges using emerging digital capabilities such as cloud compute and AI
• ✴️ high performance habits in the niche world of the technologist
• ✴️ the world’s most important challenges with diversity and inclusion
• ✴️ creating communities that strengthen social fabrics. Some powerful topics
• 🎧 You can listen at your favorite place to consume 🎤 Podcasts!
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• Thank you for listening! 🙏🏽

May 2016 – Aug 2016 · 3 mos · Auburn Hills

• Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) is the world's 7th largest automaker, designing, engineering, manufacturing, and selling passenger and light commercial vehicles.
• As an MBA intern on the product strategy team for the Chrysler brand, I really got to see how much the organization cared about its customers and allocated resources into designing the perfect automobile for their target market.
• I helped pioneer the development of the first-ever electric vehicle technology innovation process, a collaboration between brand, marketing, engineering, and strategy teams to build a working ideation platform for the Plug-in Hybrid Pacifica. During my time at FCA, I also investigated forward thinking vehicle portfolio strategies and looked for trends to propose product execution and positioning for sustainable technologies in future automobile deployments.
• Some key take-aways from working with FCA: 1) the importance of developing the customer persona and understanding the lifestyles of an evolving consumer landscape, and 2) the value of intense competitive analysis in a disruptive environment, and the importance of balancing strengths and weaknesses in the product development life-cycle to achieve "best in class" automobiles.

Oct 2014 – Jul 2015 · 9 mos · Torrance, CA

• Partner Energy is a premier energy efficiency and sustainability engineering consulting company made up of a tight knit, talented group of dedicated professionals. Our team worked with utilities, building owners, and energy technology partners to help them develop energy efficiency projects to meet strategic goals.  Partner Energy’s services covered the entire spectrum of commercial/multifamily space energy consulting, ranging from energy related project financing, to on-site energy generation and everything in between.
• I spent my time helping customers identify energy cost-savings opportunities for new and existing assets within a wide breadth of financial, developmental, sustainability, and engineering design nation-wide.
• I also developed partnerships and relationships with national energy utilities to strengthen long term goals of commercial energy consumption reduction, while also working towards impacting our customers' bottom line through comprehensive energy efficiency engineering needs.

Feb 2014 – Feb 2015 · 1 yr · West Coast Cohort

• With the ongoing misrepresentation of minority groups in the executive level board rooms of the nations most prestigious firms, MBA Prep's mission is to guide ambitious and diverse talent by mentoring and coaching with the use of the specific ingredients needed for the path to senior leadership.
• To become a corporate sponsor, school partner, or a fellow of the competitive MBA prep program, please visit Management Leadership for Tomorrow's website: http://www.ml4t.org/about/mlt-at-a-glance

Nov 2009 – Oct 2014 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Greater Los Angeles Area

• Successfully impacted businesses in need of operating within environmental regulations by offering custom designed solutions with the goal of consolidating environmental compliance while boosting clientele profit margins.
• Designed effective business development models and protocols to effectively penetrate new markets and drive up prospecting objectives.
• Maintained innovative and trend setting B2B sales strategies that effectively brought in revenue that exceeded business development goals, while also helping clients optimize their market presence.
• Supported the inception of the San Diego and Los Angeles office branches by relocating and readjusting sales efforts to gain regional momentum and jump start revenue growth.
• Developed Patriot’s first comprehensive technical sales presentation platform for the Sales and Marketing team to effectively communicate how Patriot's industry leading solutions could keep businesses in environmental compliance.

Nov 2007 – Nov 2009 · 2 yrs · Irvine, California

• Evaluated and solved work related environmental health and safety issues including; indoor air quality, construction safety, hazardous materials management, and general industry safety - as well as drafted reports of findings.
• Prepared and presented safety trainings including; workplace safety hazards, respirator use and safety, first aid and CPR, hazardous material remediation safety, and general environmental heath awareness.
• Created and reviewed hazard communication, injury illness prevention programs, and health and safety plans for a myriad of industrial management sectors and provided the support as acting onsite industrial hygienist.
• Managed, developed, and assembled requests for proposals for new business while exceeding billable consulting goals by over 40%.

Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 · 1 yr · Greater San Diego Area

• Provided the consulting and assembly of environmental regulatory business plans for Fortune 500 firms in the retail market to maintain state and EPA environmental compliance while streamlining internal client processes and regulatory fees.
• Developed professional relationships with local and government agencies to ensure accurate and timely deliverables and to alleviate fees and complications associated with environmental regulatory compliance for a diverse portfolio of clientele.
• Actively lead and participated in quality development, internal process improvements, and upheld quality standards exceeding a 97% quality control rating while meeting stern monthly deadlines.
• Managed new employee training and implemented a 90-day training program with standard operating procedures that brought new hires at the coordinator level above 95% quality control ratings.