currently, I work as a product bizops associate at LinkedIn

before that I co-founded Connect-In-Place, a non-profit that provided free virtual classes to 5,000+ kids, taught by 460 college students, during the pandemic

in my free time I like to be a force of chaotic good in the world

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my professional passions include: harnessing tech for good, analyzing data to solve problems, and championing the wants & needs of customers

Product BizOps @ LinkedIn (2021 - Present)
- As one of two BizOps on the $1.3B LAN product, I shape strategy through data analysis, set & track against targets, and project-manage XFN stakeholders

Co-Founder @ Connect-In-Place (2020-2023)
- Founded a nonprofit during the pandemic that provided free virtual classes to 5,000+ kids across 45 countries, taught by 460 college student volunteers
- In NBC, CBS, Harvard Business Publishing

Graduated from UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business (2021)
- Summa cum laude with the Undergraduate Scholar Award

APMM Intern @ Salesforce (Summer 2020)
- Led user research, created storytelling assets quoted across all marketing campaigns, & selected to present my GTM strategy recs across the business unit & to executives

Co-Author of Social Enterprise Case Study (2018)
- The case was published in Harvard Business Publishing and is taught in the Berkeley-Haas MBA program

more work history on LinkedIn

I love learning & combining different mediums. My current hobbies include design (UX, graphic, interior, and fashion), sculpture, comedy writing, and coding (learning Flutter currently).

made from an old picnic blanket & cardboard

"eat your heart out"

sgraffito

"little guys"

I'm extremely committed to the bit and will invest boundless time and resources into silly projects. A small sampling below.

Overarching themes are increasing whimsy in the world, pairing absurdity with aesthetic, and creating self-referential/immersive experiences where strangers become part of the art.

Mehran's Steakhouse

Made an internationally-acclaimed restaurant from scratch for one night only. Curated a theatrical dining extravaganza for 120 unsuspecting guests with my two friends, and 60+ of our friends as staff. Read about it here.Featured in The New York Times, ABC, BBC, CBC, Vice, Morning Brew, CBS, Fox, SF Gate, etc

Schtickers

Like a contemporary court jester, I make stickers memeing the leaders of today.

The Advice Line

Created a reverse advice line where people call to give advice. Turned some of the advice into a song. Read about it here.

Information

All the information you could possibly need to know, condensed in a series of four pamphlets. Created as part of a (secret) collaborative city-wide project.

Professional Matchmaker & Champion of the Press

Helped two friends find love, accidentally made a reporter obsessed with me. Made dating posters for the reporter as well and put them up around her office (while in disguise). Read about the hunk o' mania here.

interpretive dancing to an animatronic self-driving muppet at the finale

Puppetmaster

Collaborated on an SF-wide scavenger hunt that over 2k people played, with 300 making it to the finale. Created the viral promo described as "really weird guerrilla marketing" and clue #8, a fake book. Can now technically say I'm a published author in bookstores. Also sewed a very cursed life-sized costume of the mascot.

I make my printer other people's problem

I love doing important census work (flyers that link to stupid surveys). Then I work my data analysis magic. I love spreadsheets so much. E.g. my bean-themed posters got 700 QR code scans and 300 responses in two weeks, I picked two lucky winners and sent them on a one-way flight to Chicago to see The Bean and then stay there forever, read the beanfluencing report here.

Stupid Little Parties for my Silly Little Friends

Like an idiot, I used to think you needed an occasion to throw a party. I have since come to realize that all you need is a dream. Some of my favorites have been Soupsgiving (all liquid Thanksgiving), Alextravaganza (party for Alexes), and the Americaversary (1-year anniversary of my British roommate living in the U.S.A.). Read the stories here.

H*rny Hinge Haikus

Leveraged Hinge men for UGC. Pioneer in AI yassification for data privacy and overarching web-3 morality. Peruse here.

Interior Design

I am an interior design professional.

Tech Daddy Shrine

Average American American-Themed Bathroom

"The Pit," 2022

Plastic balls, bodypillows, a fitted sheet, misc couchesEgan et al. labored for months (2, to be precise) to complete this avant-garde masterpiece, archetypal of the "Camp" style, rampant in the 2020's with artists of the Zed generation. In an allusion to the universe, "The Pit" contains multitudes, tiny spheres that compose the fabric of a whole - impotent, trivial, and repugnant alone - but extraordinary in composition, the whole much greater than its mere parts.The perimeters of this piece consist of miscellaneous lounging apparatuses, conveying a modern take on the classic conversation pit, a nod to humanity and civilization - the discourse and comradery in contemporary symposium that distinguishes humankind from mere beasts. This structure encompasses the focal point of the piece, the pit, as humanity and the universe, at once both dissonant and enraptured, are thrust together as one.To quote Egan herself on the inspiration behind this tour de force, "I've never met a room that wouldn't be better with a few thousand balls in it."

Turned my house into a historical walking tour

After visiting a historical house walking tour in Alaska, I thought, "I could do that." So I did, mostly made of inside jokes you wouldn't get but anyone with a landlord could probably relate to this one (which marks our antique refrigerator).

anyways, this was just a small peek into my dark and twisted mind