I'm an AI product and team leader with 15+ years in the space. I specialize in classification models with a strong focus on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and conversational AI. Throughout my career, I have worked closely with both machine learning and software engineers, as well as off-shore and in-house operations teams to solve complex classification and data problems.

I'm originally from the San Gabriel Valley which lies mostly east of Los Angeles. It also happens to be the home of In-N-Out Burger! I'm a blue dot in an orange sea, living in San Francisco always wishing for rain and fog, loving the mild summers! I enjoy photography, baking, cooking, and trying to catch a Dodger game! I hope I can make it to Dodger stadium this year.

As the Bot Optimization manager, I led a 6-person optimization team dedicated to improving chatbot performance. We partnered with the product and model training teams to ensure that customer experience issues were addressed in upcoming releases.


As the lead model trainer/analyst, I led a 3-person team that optimized chatbots by tuning NLP/NLU models and updating content. I also worked directly with our engineering teams to automate insight generation, build a bot response testing framework, and launch an internal annotating tool.


I was the Project/Sr. Program Manager for Leibniz, Legal AI & Analytics project. I led the operations side which included budget, vendor management, managing project milestones, targets and KPIs. I also worked with our NLP engineer to develop document and clause classifiers, their taxonomy, training and testing set.


I worked as a consulting taxonomist for the Google Feedback team where I created taxonomy policies and oversaw their implementation and the implementation of methodologies that improved text classification precision and recall.


I was the Product Manager of eBay Local Catalog and Classification where I oversaw classification and feed content quality for eBay Now Merchant onboarding.


I managed the Data team in the Recruitment group where our team was responsible for marketing campaign and web site trend analysis.


I was a consultant working with the Business Process Operations team on internal and client facing web-based application development, product classification and product attribute extraction.

Agile, Confluence, Jira, Figma, Dialogflow
PostgreSQL, MySQL, T-SQL, CQL, Regex, Tableau
Familiarity with: Python, Bash, JSON, XML, Pandas, scikit-learn, Bootstrap
Knowledge of: spaCy, HDBSCAN, BERT, Support Vector Machine (SVM), Bayesian Belief Network (BBN) and Naïve Bayes, k-NN, Random Forest

Where I received a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology.


Where I completed the Product Management Program.