Professional and Educational Experience
🧠 Experience
Product Manager @ USMO (Higher Ed)
Software Development Engineer @ USMO (Higher Ed)
IT Systems Analyst @ USMO (Higher Ed)
Founder @ ATSC (IT)
Technical Account Manager @ Lotame (Ad-Tech)
Sales Associate @ Target Mobile (Mobile Phone Sales)
🤝 Education
Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) - August 2025
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Part-Time STEM Designation, GPA 3.85
Graduate Certificate in Technology Management
AI and Career Empowerment Certificate
Technology Leadership and Governance Certificate (Nov 2024)
Towson University (TU) - August 2020
MS, Applied Information Technology, GPA 3.89
Graduate Certificate in Information Systems Management
UMBC Training Centers - November 2015
Project Management Fundamentals - Certificate of Training
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) - May 2015
BS, Business Technology Administration, Academic Honors
Minor in MBA Preparatory Studies
Montgomery College (MC) - May 2013
AA, General Studies, Dean's List
🎯 Leadership Roles
Team Leader, Technology Management Capstone, Whoosh HPC – Commercialization and Pricing Strategy, UMCP
Market Master Award Winner, Flex MBA Capstone Business Competition, UMCP
Chief Professional Development Officer, PTMBA Association, UMCP
Cohort Track Representative, PTMBA Association, UMCP
Selected Participant, Henrietta Lacks Case Competition, UMCP
Treasurer, Persian Student Association, UMBC
Vice President, Student Business Association, Montgomery College
Project Manager, Student Business Association, Montgomery College
Continuous (Free) Learning
🔎 Subscribed YouTube Channels
🧠 Business, Tech, & Product Management
Ali Abdaal 🔗
Anthropic 🔗
Boston Consulting Group 🔗
Chloe Shih 🔗
Dr. Nancy Li 🔗
Economy Media 🔗
Exponent 🔗
freeCodeCamp.org 🔗
Google 🔗
Harvard Business School 🔗
IGotAnOffer: Product management 🔗
Lenny's Podcast 🔗
Life at Google 🔗
Made by Google 🔗
Modern MBA 🔗
OpenAI 🔗
Product School 🔗
Stanford Graduate School of Business 🔗
Talks at Google 🔗
The Economist 🔗
The Prof G Pod - Scott Galloway 🔗
Y Combinator 🔗
📰 News & Journalism
60 Minutes 🔗
CNN 🔗
CNBC 🔗
CNBC Make It 🔗
CNBC Television 🔗
Forbes 🔗
MSNBC 🔗
New York Times Podcasts 🔗
TIME 🔗
The Guardian 🔗
The New York Times 🔗
The Wall Street Journal 🔗
Vox 🔗
💬 Psychology, Self-Development, & Emotional Health
Andrew Huberman 🔗
DoctorRamani 🔗
Dr. Tracey Marks 🔗
HealthyGamerGG 🔗
Jay Shetty Podcast 🔗
Jefferson Fisher 🔗
Jerry Wise 🔗
Lewis Howes 🔗
Mel Robbins 🔗
The School of Life 🔗
🎙️ Big Ideas & Thought Leadership
Big Think 🔗
TED 🔗
TEDx Talks 🔗
Ted Audio Collective 🔗
The Diary of a CEO 🔗
For funsies
🎭 Comedy & Late Night
Comedy Central Stand-Up 🔗
Hasan Minhaj 🔗
Jimmy Kimmel Live 🔗
LastWeekTonight 🔗
Saturday Night Live 🔗
The Daily Show 🔗
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert 🔗
🍳 Food & Cooking
America's Test Kitchen 🔗
Cooking with Shereen 🔗
Food Wishes 🔗
Joshua Weissman 🔗
Laura in the Kitchen 🔗
Natasha's Kitchen 🔗
🧠 Subscribed Podcasts
🎙️ Product, Tech, & Business Strategy
Business Breakdowns 🔗
Financial Feminist 🔗
Founders 🔗
Lenny's Podcast 🔗
Morning Brew Daily 🔗
Product Insider With Dr. Nancy Li 🔗
Product Thinking 🔗
The Game with Alex Hormozi 🔗
The HigherUp Podcast 🔗
The Journal 🔗
The Money with Katie Show 🔗
The Product Podcast 🔗
This is Product Management 🔗
Women in Product 🔗
Y Combinator Startup Podcast 🔗
🧠 AI & Technology
Practical AI 🔗
The AI Daily Brief 🔗
The Neuron: AI Explained 🔗
💬 Psychology, Personal Growth & Communication
Huberman Lab 🔗
Mel Robbins Podcast 🔗
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett 🔗
Think Fast Talk Smart: Communication Techniques 🔗
👩💼 Women in Business & Tech
Financial Feminist 🔗
Money for Couples 🔗
Women at Work 🔗
Women in Product 🔗
Women in Tech Podcast 🔗
📰 News & Society
Freakonomics Radio 🔗
The Daily 🔗
The Journal 🔗
WSJ Tech News Briefing 🔗
WSJ's The Future of Everything 🔗
🎓 Big Ideas, Education, & TED
How to Be a Better Human 🔗
TED Health 🔗
TED Talks Daily 🔗
TEDx Shorts 🔗
📈 Leadership, Impact & Culture
Business Speaks Podcast 🔗
Force Multiplier 🔗
✨ Books/Audiobooks
I've Read
- Insight: Why We're Not as Self-Aware as We Think, and How Seeing Ourselves Clearly Helps Us Succeed at Work and in Life by Tasha Eurich
- Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice by Clayton M. Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, and David S. Duncan
- Don't Believe Everything You Think by Joseph Nguyen
- The 2-Hour Job Search: Using Technology to Gett the Right Job Faster by Steve Dalton
- Talent: How to Identify Engergizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World by Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross
- The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
On My List
- Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World by Anne-Laure LeCunff
- Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It by Richard V. Reeves
- The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli
- Start With Why by Simon Sinek
- The First 90 Days by Michael D. Watkins
- Apple in China by Patrick McGee
- Change the Recipe by Jose Andres
- Impact Players: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply Your Impact by Liz Wiseman
- EMPOWERED: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products by Marty Cagan and Chris Jones
- Likeable Badass: How Women Get the Success They Deserve by Alison Fragale PhD
- Lucky Loser: Adventures in Tennis and Comedy by Michael Kosta