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Psychologist
AI Builder

Ten-plus years coordinating multi-stakeholder programming. Fluent in the operational realities of K-12. Designing, piloting and evaluating tools inside FERPA-regulated workflows.

Work

2014 – present
2025 – present

Educationally Related Mental Health Services Psychologist

San Francisco Unified School District

  • Consulted on 10+ complex mental health cases a month, advising school teams on assessment and intervention.
  • Advised school psychologists district-wide through the district's consultation panel on complex, high-stakes cases.
  • Co-developed and delivered district-wide trainings to 100+ staff: psychologists, administrators, therapists and teachers.
2014 – 2025

Project Lead and School Psychologist

San Francisco Unified School District

  • Designed and led a grant-funded therapeutic pilot replacing traditional counseling sessions with counseling-while-biking. Secured a $10K grant.
  • Coordinated across external and internal partners to plan, launch and operate the pilot at a school site.
  • Used fluent Portuguese and Mandarin to resolve culturally complex, high-stakes cases and build trust with multilingual families.

Projects

2026 – present
2026 – present

Consult Panel

Builder

  • Privacy-first AI decision-support for psychologists conducting complex and nuanced evaluations. Structures evidence collection, flags evidence gaps, and organizes complex unstructured data so that human judgment is better informed.
2026 – present

Panel Rotation Scheduler

Designed and Built · SFUSD consultation panel

  • Modeled the eligibility, availability, and equity rules governing a 108-person consultation panel, then constraint-solved a full-year rotation satisfying all of them.
  • Built the Google Apps Script layer provisioning calendars and sending reminders unattended across 69 sessions.

Education

SUNY Plattsburgh
2006 – 2014

School Psychology, M.A. and B.A.

SUNY Plattsburgh · Highest Honor, GPA 3.91

  • Thesis: Effective Tech Implementation Models in Education. A systems-level analysis of frameworks for integrating new technology in school settings.