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Hi, my name is Ian! I'm a recent graduate from UC Irvine with a B.S. in Business Information Management. I am passionate about blending business and technology, in which I have gained demonstrated expertise across both fields.

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Experience

July 2026 - Present

Junior Project Manager @ SilkCommerce

  • Own e-commerce system-implementation projects end-to-end for B2B/B2C clients, working across BigCommerce, Shopify, Epicor, and ShopHive.
  • Run client demos and discovery calls, translating requirements into scoped work for development teams.
March 2026 - July 2026

Full-Stack Software Engineer Intern @ ForOurLastNames

  • Built a gamified financial-education platform under Agile, deploying with AWS S3, CloudFront, and Lambda alongside Supabase.
  • Fixed UI issues in TypeScript/Express/Node.js and integrated Stripe subscriptions projected at ~$50K ARR in year one.
March 2026 - July 2026

Associate Consultant @ Seed Consulting Group

  • Synthesized findings from 20+ market and user sources into 3+ strategic recommendations.
  • Evaluated competing product demos to guide a vendor selection that cut costs 30%, and surfaced 30+ partnership/funding leads.
March 2026 - June 2026

Product Strategy & Growth Consultant (Contract) @ Sandisk

  • Led commercial due diligence on the flash-memory market against 10+ competitors.
  • Built a KPI-driven go-to-market roadmap that lifted activation/retention 25%+, and mined 100+ survey responses to isolate Gen Z brand-perception drivers (+15%).
July 2025 - April 2026

Machine Learning Researcher @ Algoverse

  • Engineered PyTorch pipelines benchmarking 10+ LLMs, improving accuracy ~30% on average.
  • Co-authored 2 papers accepted at NeurIPS and EACL workshops on AI safety and token-usage reduction, and shipped 20+ interactive Plotly dashboards.
June 2024 - Sept 2024, June 2025 - Sept 2025

IT Engineer Intern @ Delta Electronics

  • Supported 500+ users, raising Jira ticket resolution 25%, and streamlined auditing across 800+ assets via VLOOKUP (-15% discrepancies).
  • Prototyped an AI agent that parses technical documents during sales calls, cutting research time 40%.
March 2025 - July 2025

Product Strategy Lead @ AceCare (HealthTech Startup)

  • Led product discovery, running 25+ user interviews to shape an accessibility-focused roadmap.
  • Mapped HIPAA-sensitive data touchpoints to guide privacy-safe workflows.
January 2026 - June 2026

Consultant, Director of Corporate Relations @ Irvine Consulting Group (ICG)

  • Directed a 30-member consulting club and led the team behind an 80+ participant case competition sponsored by EY Parthenon.
  • Advised on membership growth and retention strategies.
April 2024 - April 2026

VP of External Affairs, Internship Program Coordinator @ Ascend at UCI

  • Designed a structured internship program (roles, KPIs, feedback loops) mentoring 12+ interns.
  • Coordinated outreach to 50+ industry partners for 150+ students and helped drive a 15x membership increase.

Papers

ResponsibleFM @ NeurIPS 2025

Evaluation Awareness Scales Predictably in Open-Weights Large Language Models

Probes 15 open-weight models (0.27B-70B params) across four model families and finds that their ability to tell evaluation apart from real deployment follows a clear power-law with model size, letting researchers forecast this behavior in future, larger models.

Read on arXiv
EACL SRW 2026

Broken Chains: The Cost of Incomplete Reasoning in LLMs

Shows that cutting reasoning models off mid-chain-of-thought can hurt them more than giving no reasoning at all, and that how a model reasons (code vs. natural language) changes how gracefully it degrades under tight token budgets across four frontier models.

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