RESUME
Experience
JoinLinks Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
Co-Founder, Head of Product
2021 - 2025
Co-founded a Los Angeles-based social application with the mission of helping people new or native to a city find activities specifically aligned to their interests, as well as connect them with new friends to join them. My primary responsibilities included conducting user research, establishing product vision, developing our product roadmap, and working closely with our Developers as the sole UX/UI designer to design the application in Figma. We shipped our app in 2023, and grew to 6,000+ users over 2 years.


The Brains Behind It Consulting, LLC
Los Angeles, CA
Founder & Principal Consultant
2024
Engaged with Siebert Williams Shank on a 4-month long project to develop and execute a strategy for quantifying and visualizing the community impact of the Firm’s extensive deal activity and employee volunteer work. Used reasoning & critical thinking skills to identify appropriate data inputs, cleaned and prepared both provided and publicly available data, created the data model in Power BI, and built dynamic and user-friendly dashboards. My work was used to populate the Firm’s first annual Community Impact Report, which was posted on their company website and distributed externally to hundreds of clients.

UBS Financial Services Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
Investment Banking Analyst (2018) Associate Director (2019) Director (2022)
2018 - 2024
As an Analyst, (then promoted to an Associate Director after one year) managed the request for proposal and deal execution processes from start to finish for the West Region banking team. While in this role, identified a departmental need for an internal product to manage client touchpoint data and improve department visibility. Pitched and accepted a role to serve as an Associate Director of Strategic Design, with the Pipeline Database as my first project. My primary responsibilities included establishing the product vision & roadmap, conducting user research with internal stakeholders, fully designing and coding the Database using the limited resources available to the department, conducting UAT, leading the rollout and training sessions for the entire Department, and maintaining data integrity. This product reduced time spent on core manual processes from hours to just seconds with an emphasis on much cleaner output reports, and I earned a promotion to Director.
Deloitte & Touche LLP
Detroit, MI
Advisory Consultant
2016-2018
Worked on a highly visible 60-member internal project team tasked with developing LeaseController, a web-based software tool for storing, analyzing, and reporting lease accounting information. Even as one of the most junior members of the team, I was formally recognized by the Lead Partner on the project for my individual contribution in discovering accounting errors and propelling the team through testing as efficiently as possible under pressure. I was then engaged to support a Fortune 20 client in beta testing and implementing the software. While on-site, I leveraged real-time client feedback to propose UI/UX changes to the Development team to improve overall user-friendliness.

Education
Howard University
2011 - 2015
Washington, D.C.
Bachelor of Business Administration
Executive Leadership Honors Program
Major: Finance
Honors: Summa Cum Lauda | GPA: 3.92/4.00
Wayne State University
2015-2016
Detroit, MI
Master of Science in Accounting
GPA: 3.86/4.00
Certified Public Accountant, Licensed in California & Michigan