Reverse Chronological Order (Most Recent / current First)

Time off / Exploratory Period

• Thinking about giant projects and Micro SaaS ideas

• self-studied emerging tech (ai, longevity, blockchain + defi)

• Traveled to 7 countries over 8 weeks

Effective Altruism Personal Involvement & Projects

• Rejected from Open Philanthropy’s Century Fellowship in October.

• Sep 2022 ~ Helped with some “ops mgr” adjacent support for a funded Effective Altruism management consultancy.

• Sep ~ Nov 2022 - Built sangro.io

  • MVP towards a peer-based learning cohort program for AI Safety Research and up skilling education.

  • advisor, fiscal sponsorship and fiscal support from AI Safety Support.

• Rejected for Funding for Ops organization “Future Foundry” in August from FTX Future Fund (dissolved in November 2022).

• Started conversation and User Interviews in Apr 2022 under the name “Heavy Meta” (play on words for EA community nomenclature of ‘meta’ organizations that act in a support capacity to direct work).

Contracted to helped with senior operations / project management at a four day conference with emerging technology and long term future companies and communities

Visit the Bay 2022 Effective Altruism Summer housing project -

• Managed between 40~50 bedrooms across 6 properties that short-term in Berkeley, California (tough real estate market)

• Grant funding of $147.5K, returned about $100K of collected revenues from $107K of liquidity provision (no interest loan)

• Resulted in (now renamed and active) East Bay EA Slack workspace with ~250 members.

• Advisory (ops & management) to several effective altruism field building programs

Full time on Operations Team @ Redwood Research

• Referred by friend to start as a contractor. First exposure to Effective Altruism and AI Safety.

• Learned a lot

  • project mgmt (info flow, scoping, tracking, comms, interfacing between different stakeholders

  • studied California nonprofit tax laws and accounting/legal proceedings, business tech systems

  • communications and product buildout multiple end user types

  • office and day to day company operations

  • most importantly: some of the most insightful conversations with some of the most authentic and intrinsically motivated people i’ve ever had the sheer luck of being able to work with and be around.

• Funded tech startup environment with a sense of urgency (a nonprofit research firm trying to align superhuman AI).

• First hand witness to both my weaknesses in management, systems thinking, and prioritization frameworks and my strength in business acumens, work ethic, and quickness of technical information uptake.

Galvanize - Data Science Full-time bootcamp

• Hackreactor’s Data Science arm

• Capstone projects:

International Import/Export Kava Business

• Shutdown from pandemic. Cut losses

Analyst in Banking Industry

• Produced financial models for economical implications and cash flows for leveraged buyouts, acquisitions, and $10M+ company projects or investments.

Intense Self Experimentation and Productivity Sprint

• At the end of my 3rd year, paved a path for myself when options looked narrow after university.

  • Most intense year of my life lived to date

• Over the next year:

  • Went from 15 ~ 8% body fat (non sustainable, reverted to 11/12% after 1 month)

  • Job Search

    • Reached out to ~150 people for info interviews (trying to find a job)

      • Did ~40 info interviews, coffees or calls.

    • Interviewed at 10 companies, applied more than 10x than.

    • Did 2 months of a venture capital analyst internship by going up to a small firm founder/partner that was a keynote speaker for a student club event on campus.

  • Wrote ~300ish pages of brain dump age and anecdotal short stories. Mostly became a bit of a sanity thing for me.

  • Bumped my GPA up with 3 highest quarters of academic performance.

  • Read 10 ~ 15 books for pleasure. Mostly self development and cognitive science.

    • Heavily shaped by: The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma and Change Your Brain Change Your Life by Daniel Amen

College - Cal Poly SLO

• B.S. in Biz Admin, concentrating in Finance w/ a minor in Psychology

• CFA Level 1 Exam

High school

• RYLA , rotary’s youth program

• 2 years in Student Government / Leadership class. Got to play batman at a homecoming event in front of the school.