• Co-chair Policy Working Group of the GovAI coalition delivering streamlined policy, guiding principles, and governance through consensus building across 100+ US city governments. (2024)

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• Supervised a team of 4, execution of 30 smart city projects, and managed a 7.9M USD budgeted municipal Smart Cities Program. (2023)

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• Led team to develop and launch City of San Antonio Smart Cities Strategy and Smarter Together initiative. (2023)

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• Primary Author on six Playbooks for UN Habitat's People-Centered Smart City Program. (2022)

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• Led a two-day training on people-centered smart cities for 25 city leaders representing ten African local governments in partnership with ASToN. (2022)

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• Led City of San Antonio team on “Smart Streetlight” IoT pilot with local utility, impacting 119K nodes. (2021)

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• Developed and executed the City of San Antonio’s first Data Governance Policy “AD 7.12”, including “Principles of Data-Informed Government.

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• Negotiated 8 utility & public sector orgs to execute Data Sharing Protocol for SmartSA Interlocal Datasharing Agreement resulting in increased public sector data sharing. (2021)

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• Co-developed San Antonio's Digital Divide Assessment and Digital Inclusion Initiatives (2020)

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• Led interdepartmental team to develop and launch City of San Antonio CoVID-19 Open Data Platform. (2020)

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• Created and managed the “SmartSA Sandbox” smart cities community engagement program, partnering with 25 agencies to provide over 2,000 youth and families access to free STEM education activities, and to opportunities to provide input to municipal smart city policy.

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• Led Civic Technology Program “CivTechSA” Year 2 with 50 challenges, 15+ community events, and two Municipal Residency Programs for local technology start-ups. (2019)

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• Authored 75+ data analytics articles for local news outlet, the San Antonio Report. (2018)

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• Completed Master’s thesis at MIT using Markov Modeling to predict gentrification in four Boroughs in New York City. (2016)

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• Developed a new data-driven planning norm for the provision of commercial facilities in Singapore Housing Authority’s (HDB) public housing towns. (2015)

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• Conducted and managed participatory planning workshops engaging 50-60 city government members, professional planning practitioners, and academics, working collaboratively as part of the City Planning Lab Initiative in Indonesia. (2014)

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• Supported municipal staff to launch a City Planning Laboratory in Denpasar, Indonesia including support with geospatial mapping and participatory planning to improve municipal services in informal settlements. (2014)