Resume

Experience

April 2018 - Current

Data Science Projects

CURRENT PROJECT • Analyses of longitudinal Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Parkinson’s study // MODELS • KNN, logistic regression and GLMs, SVM, CNN, and Naive Bayes // PRESENTATIONS • Presented donor and patron data to board, staff, and external stakeholders // DECISION-MAKING • Led decison-making informed by analyses // IMPLEMENTATION • Implemented databases, data management process and reporting systems with Salesforce

2013 - 2018

Museum of Northwest Art

Executive Director

STRATEGIC PLANNING • Led strategic planning process including environmental scans, new vision, mission, and KPIs // MARKETING • Oversaw campaigns, marketing collateral, mobile responsive website, launched magazine, digital catalogue // FINANCE • Managed budgets, retired liabilities, improved internal controls, financial reporting, reduced variances // HUMAN RESOURCES • Engaged, managed, evaluated, supported staff, interns and volunteers INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY • Updated systems to increase functionality, improve security, decrease expenses // FUNDRAISING • Stewarded major donors, led annual campaigns, planned giving, and capital project funding, grants, and events

2012 - 2013

Synexe

Organizational Architect

PLANNING • Development of business plan for start-up consulting firm, met with potential clients, developed collateral

2008-2012

Kirkland Arts Center

Executive Director

STRATEGIC PLANNING • Led strategic planning process // FUNDRAISING • Led major donor program, launched auction // MARKETING • Led campaigns, created website and collateral // FINANCE • Managed budgets, attained surpluses, retired liabilities // CURATION • Launched Emerging Curator Initiative

2006-2007

Bainbridge Performing Arts

Managing Director

PLANNING • Led anniversary seasons for performing arts center, theatre education program, and orchestra, also led music director search

Education

General Assembly

Data Science Immersive

Includes statistics, EDA, analysis, modeling and prediction, visualization, and communication

University of Washington

Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition

Composed one act opera and concert music, presented at Benaroya Hall

University of Washington

Master of Music

Courses included conducting, music theory, and computer music

Cornish College of the Arts

Bachelor of Music

Presented concert of music for chamber orchestra for graduation project

Whitman College

Bachelor of Arts in Politics, Bachelor of Arts in Theatre

Focused on East Asian politics and history, studied Mandarin / / Wrote and produced musical play for graduation project

Leadership

Leadership Tomorrow

Leadership development program Oct. 2018 - June 2019

Stanford University

Executive Program for Non-Profit Leaders

Reviewed business case studies, networking theory, and business modeling

Economic Development Alliance of Skagit County

Leadership Skagit

Leadership program included team development, networking, and practicing servant leadership, culminating in a community project to encourage elementary students to walk or ride to school

Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Fellow in Arts Management

International program focused on strategic planning, fundraising, marketing, and programming, culminating in the country's largest festival of Chinese art and culture in 2005

University of Washington

Certificate Degree in Arts Management

Studied financial management, strategic planning, organizational development, fundraising, and marketing

Boards, Committees, Conferences

Washington State Arts Allliance (WSAA)

Manager, Cultural Congress

Presenting, with other cultural organizations, statewide conference on arts and heritage advocacy in Oct. 2018

American Statistical Association

Member

Areas of interest include business and economic statistics, statistical learning and data science, and statistical computing

Washington State Arts Alliance (WSAA)

President, Board of Directors

Leading statewide advocacy effort to promote arts, heritage, and culture

Sand Point Arts and Cultural Exchange (SPACE)

President, Board of Directors

Assisting with development of art gallery, radio station, and education programs at Magnuson Park.

Washington Filmworks

Advisory Board, Creative Exchange

Advising on the development of platform connecting artists, entrepreneurs and business opportunity to grow the creative economy in the state

Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Kennedy Center Arts in Crisis Mentor

Mentored arts organizations affected by the recession

Puget Sound Regional Council

Member, Cultural Taskforce

Developed cultural plan which culminated in Cultural Access Washington legislation

Machine learning

Classification, regression, clustering,

feature engineering

Statistical methods

Regression models, hypothesis testing and

confidence intervals, principal component

analysis

Programming

Python (scikit-learn, numpy, pandas, scipy,

matplotlib, seaborn), Spark, SQL

IDE and version control

JupyterLab, Git

Data management

Salesforce, Excel

Graphic design

Adobe Creative Suite

Website management

WordPress, Drupal