USC Institute for Creative Technologies · Research Assistant – HCI

May 2025 – Present

Research assistant on the Human-AI Trust Calibration project led by PI Gale Lucas.

• Co-authored annotation codebooks, performed thematic coding and qualitative analysis, and documented methods plus inter-rater reliability (Cohen's κ) to support calibrated human–agent teaming.

Keck Medicine of USC / University of Southern California · Data Engineer Intern

Mar 2025 – Present

Own enterprise BI/tabular semantic model; ship NLP Q&A over KPIs; tune DAX/SQL for performance and consistency.

• Implemented an end-to-end NLP Q&A layer on a Power BI/SSAS semantic model by exposing KPI metadata, synonyms, and lineage to Copilot; improved exact-match/faithfulness on a 100-question benchmark.
• Owned and standardized KPI definitions/documentation across 300+ tables using Power BI/SSAS, Tabular Editor, and DAX; authored hardened SQL Server views encoding business rules.
• Improved query performance by eliminating CROSSJOIN and bi-directional filter hotspots using DAX Studio, VertiPaq Analyzer, and SQL Profiler/Query Store.
• Designed reusable SQL CTEs and parameterized views to codify dimensions, hierarchies, and period-to-date logic for consistent reporting.

Diagnostics of America · Data Engineer & Analytics

Jun 2021 – Dec 2022

Built a federated data platform and decision-ready reporting across ~350 hospitals and labs.

• Designed and deployed a federated data lake + warehouse across AWS (S3/Athena), Databricks, and BigQuery; automated a mission-critical billing process from ~20 days to hours.
• Developed reliable pipelines with Alteryx and SQL, adding incremental loads, RI/outlier/duplicate checks, and lineage/audit logs.
• Delivered C-suite Power BI dashboards for service-line and patient-level costing; optimized DAX/SQL and established daily refresh SLAs.
• Standardized data schemas and pipelines across entities to enable seamless integration and analytics.

Link School of Business · Business Analyst

Dec 2019 – May 2022

Drove grant scoring, marketing ROI models, and monthly forecasting/insights.

• Built a startup grant scoring model and executed market research in Excel (Power Query, Pivot Tables) to identify high-potential startups; improved grant allocation efficiency by ~30%.
• Maximized ROAS by allocating budgets across search/social/display/email based on ROI models and CPA targets; produced forecast and pacing reports.
• Created comprehensive performance reports and visualizations to drive strategy adjustments.