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I like figuring out how things can work better.

I specialize in product design, UX/UI, data analysis, and research.

Work samples

A collection of hands-on projects where I’ve explored product, design, data, research, and marketing.

  • Beats by Dre Consumer Behavior & Market Analysis Externship
    Beats by Dre Consumer Behavior & Market Analysis Externship
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    Beats By Dre · Jul 2026 · ✅ Verified by Extern

    Beats by Dre Consumer Behavior & Market Analysis Externship

    Discover how top brands like Beats by Dre turn consumer insights into products people can’t resist. Dive into the psychology of buying decisions, master survey design, and use cutting-edge AI tools to analyze real consumer data. In this externship, you’ll gain hands-on experience shaping marketing strategy for a leading global brand—perfect for anyone curious about marketing, psychology, or product innovation.

    Data AnalysisMarket ResearchPresentation Skills
  • Mangusta Capital Deal Sourcing & Startup Analysis Externship
    Mangusta Capital Deal Sourcing & Startup Analysis Externship
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    Mangusta Capital · Aug 2026 · ✅ Verified by Extern

    Mangusta Capital Deal Sourcing & Startup Analysis Externship

    Join a new VC fund launched by a former SoftBank Vision Fund leader and backed by the Ray-Ban/Oakley family to identify high-potential Vertical AI startups. Gain hands-on experience sourcing deals, analyzing markets, and writing compelling investment memos.

    Investment AnalysisEntrepreneurship

About me

I specialize in product design, UX/UI, data analysis, and research.

My experience ranges from designing and testing digital products to analyzing data and conducting research. I’ve worked on UX projects, consumer research, data analysis, and AI research, which has given me the chance to approach problems from both technical and user-focused perspectives.

Externships

Beats by Dre Consumer Behavior & Market Analysis Externship

Beats By Dre

Experience

Marketing Internship

Deep Aware AI · Aug 2026

UX & Project Management Intern

STAYTIQ LLC · Jul 2026

Intern

App Orchid · Jun 2025 - Sep 2025

Education

University of California Santa Cruz

Bachelor's Of Science (B.S.) - Technology And Information Management · Class of 2026

Skills

Consumer BehaviorMarket AnalysisSurvey DesignAI ToolsMarketing StrategyData AnalysisAIAgileB2B MarketingBusiness DevelopmentCommunicationCollaborationData ScrapingDecision MakingDesign & Creative MediaExcelFigmaFinancial AnalysisFinancial ModelingForecasting

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Beats by Dre Consumer Behavior & Market Analysis Externship

Discover how top brands like Beats by Dre turn consumer insights into products people can’t resist. Dive into the psychology of buying decisions, master survey design, and use cutting-edge AI tools to analyze real consumer data. In this externship, you’ll gain hands-on experience shaping marketing strategy for a leading global brand—perfect for anyone curious about marketing, psychology, or product innovation.

Data AnalysisMarket ResearchPresentation Skills

Overview

The work converted AI outputs and primary survey data into a set of research artifacts for a Beats by Dre externship. Deliverables included an interactive Replit pain-point chart that identified price as the top issue, a finalized AIDA customer journey map with an accompanying document, a 10-question survey with a ManyChat distribution flow, a cleaned 20-response dataset with summary statistics,

Beats by Dre Consumer Behavior & Market Analysis Externship

What I've accomplished

I produced an interactive Replit chart showing price as the top pain point, finalized an AIDA journey map with updated touchpoints and emotions, built a 10-question survey and ManyChat distribution flow, cleaned a 20-response dataset with category percentages and mean/median/mode calculations, and drafted a Gamma slide deck with quantitative charts and recommendations.

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Mangusta Capital Deal Sourcing & Startup Analysis Externship

Join a new VC fund launched by a former SoftBank Vision Fund leader and backed by the Ray-Ban/Oakley family to identify high-potential Vertical AI startups. Gain hands-on experience sourcing deals, analyzing markets, and writing compelling investment memos.

Investment AnalysisEntrepreneurship

Overview

The externship screened U.S.-based Vertical AI startups against a recruiting-focused thesis, translating screening criteria into a repeatable sourcing workflow. Work produced a screened shortlist of three Seed/Series A companies and a consolidated company overview for HelloSky that documented funding history, product and market focus, core technology, and reported ARR with source citations.

Mangusta Capital Deal Sourcing & Startup Analysis Externship
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What I've accomplished

I compiled a screened shortlist of three U.S.-based Seed/Series A Vertical AI startups with verified funding, team size, and product focus, and produced a consolidated HelloSky overview documenting funding history, product/market focus, core technology (including SmartRank), and reported ARR with source citations.

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SQL & Database Architecture Externship with Breaking Games

Turn six messy CSVs into an analytics database and a Q4 dashboard that drives real business decisions. SQL + Claude.

Analytics Database DesignData AnalysisSQL FundamentalsData Storytelling

Overview

The work ingested six raw e-commerce tables, cataloged field-level metadata and record counts, and mapped schema gaps and relationships across sales, inventory, product, and customer records. It built a dim_product table with stable product IDs, produced a verified SQLite analytics database with five instant-answer queries, and compiled a Holiday Game Plan document plus a static HTML dashboard

SQL & Database Architecture Externship with Breaking Games
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What I've accomplished

I produced a verified SQLite analytics database, documented schema mappings and data gaps across six tables, built a dim_product table with stable product IDs, delivered five instant-answer SQL queries, and produced a Q4 ad allocation plan that grouped 421 referrer strings into a channel taxonomy.

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TruBridge Healthcare Data Analytics Externship

A TruBridge externship in healthcare data analytics, focused on analyzing public health datasets, building dashboards, and applying statistical methods to detect patterns in infection and outcomes data.

Data AnalysisData VisualizationData Storytelling

Overview

The externship explored public healthcare datasets and statistical methods applied to infection tracking and outcomes. The work compared analytic approaches, processed large-scale data, and produced interactive dashboards and trend analyses. Deliverables included cleaned datasets, statistical summaries, and visualizations.

 TruBridge Healthcare Data Analytics Externship
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What I've accomplished

I validated and prepared a county-level dataset from County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, applying a six-point fitness checklist and confirming sufficient sample size and acceptable missingness for analysis.

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