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AfterQuery (YC W25)
San Francisco, CA
ATHLAW LLP
West Hollywood, CA
WCHype LLC
SF / Santa Monica, CA
Sole and Laces
California (6 locations)
Seiler LLP (now Baker Tilly US)
Redwood City, CA
Real-World Practice
Work Experience
AfterQuery (YC W25)
San Francisco, CA
Finance & Accounting Expert
Dec 2025 – Present · Contract
- Authored finance and accounting training data used to train state-of-the-art AI models, spanning financial analysis, financial accounting, structured research, skill assessment, and creative-writing tracks.
- Prompted AfterQuery's own agent to produce reference outputs across document formats (PDF, DOCX, PPTX), showing the models what a given human prompt is supposed to generate.
- Graded frontier-model outputs against expert standards alongside CFAs, CPAs, and career finance professionals, and earned a spot on AfterQuery's top-repeat-expert list with priority access to new projects.
Financial Analyst
Apr 2025 – Jun 2025 · Contract
- Selected by the founding team as roughly 1 of 30 contributors from top finance programs (Wharton, Harvard, Princeton, NYU Stern, Stanford, UNC) to help build AfterQuery's original finance AI model.
- Analyzed 10-Ks and financial statements, extracting EBITDA, revenue breakdowns, margin trends, and ratios, and built complex queries that tested how well the model reasoned through real company performance and accounting.
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ATHLAW LLP
West Hollywood, CA
Legal Intern
Aug 2025 – Dec 2025 · Internship
- Provided legal support and due diligence for partners representing retired NFL players in complex disability and retirement benefit litigation against the NFL.
- Conducted exhaustive open-source intelligence audits on clients, documenting every public social post and a decade of press coverage, to surface and neutralize anything opposing counsel could use; compiled structured risk briefs for partner review.
- Completed a multi-month audit of a Hall of Fame NFL client, distilling a large volume of public information into a single structured risk document.
WCHype LLC
SF / Santa Monica, CA
Chief Financial Officer
Dec 2023 – May 2025 · Hybrid
- Managed full-scope company finances, scaling revenue from $10K to over $2M annually while partnering with the owner to establish the LLC, create company accounts, and secure $1M+ in credit facilities through staged financing to fund growth and build reserves.
- Oversaw and planned the allocation of over $2M in annual revenue to support the owner's long-term growth strategy.
- Reviewed and audited company tax returns prepared by outside firms to ensure accuracy, prevent IRS exposure, and maximize deductions.
- Constructed and periodically audited detailed Excel-based inventory spreadsheets to provide accurate, real-time projections of company assets.
- Structured the company to pursue litigation against vendors and counterparties with high accrued accounts receivables; recovered ~$50K through legal proceedings.
- Budgeted and internally audited all company expenses to minimize spending and maximize profitability.
- Trained and oversaw 2 bookkeepers and internal inventory auditors on the company's systems and processes.
Financial Strategy Consultant
Oct 2022 – Dec 2023 · Contract
- Managed company books and created monthly Excel-based journal entries to maintain accurate financial records.
- Managed company inventory and allocated budgets across different product categories.
- Worked with the owner to form the company LLC, establish bank accounts, and secure initial credit lines.
Sole and Laces
California (6 locations)
Financial & Legal Strategy Consultant
Jul 2022 – May 2025 · Contract
- Recovered $200K+ in accrued accounts receivable across 4–5 distressed vendors, several of whom had failed to deliver or defaulted on goods owed.
- Conducted multi-source due diligence (online research, vendor-staff outreach, cross-referencing active lawsuits, contacting other customers) to trace each root cause, then negotiated under litigation threat to recover across every vendor.
- Reviewed and audited tax returns prepared by outside firm to ensure maximization of business write-offs and accuracy of the tax firm's work.
- Strategically planned over $1M in business expenses and purchases to maximize tax write-offs and ROI.
- Independently drafted partnership contracts and operating agreements for new location openings and vendor relationships - without attorney involvement.
- Worked with owners overnight to prepare the Santa Monica location for Grand Opening.
Inventory Manager & Senior Sales Associate
Apr 2022 – Jul 2022 · Part-time
- Secured over $300K in inventory through wholesale distribution partners and resellers; managed over $3M in total goods and inventory across locations.
- Worked with owners to prepare and open the Daly City location under a time-critical deadline with a 20-hour workday.
- Led the full transition of the inventory management system from Shopify POS to Lightspeed POS; organized and input all inventory.
- Created and led an internal audit system to improve accuracy and accountability of the inventory management system.
- Trained employees to use Lightspeed POS and organize inventory.
- Developed customer-facing sales techniques through direct client interaction and high-volume floor experience.
Seiler LLP (now Baker Tilly US)
Redwood City, CA
Tax Administrative Assistant
Jul 2022 – Dec 2023 · Full-time Contract via Robert Half (40–100 hrs/week)
- One of only 2 of 12 new hires retained past the season, and the team's highest-performing processor (10 returns on a slow day, 20–35 during deadline weeks).
- Processed tax returns across all entity types for ultra-high-net-worth individuals and Silicon Valley family offices: Individual (1040), Gift Tax (709), Partnership (1065), C-Corp (1120), S-Corp (1120S), Foundations (990), Trusts & Estates (1041), and Estate Tax (706).
- Trusted with the most complex returns on the floor: mixed-state individual and S-corp filings requiring multi-jurisdiction e-file plus paper handling, with the experience to spot and pull special forms from raw data.
- Full-time contract via Robert Half, 40–100 hours/week; assembled and processed 1,000+ returns over the tenure, including multiple 20+ hour days during peak deadlines.
- Proofread returns, engagement letters, and IRS correspondence, and communicated directly with ultra-high-net-worth clients on behalf of Partners and Tax Managers when they were unavailable.
- Managed client communications and filings including Form 1099s, TIC statements, certified correspondence, return acceptance packages, specialized forms, K-1 packages, and bound client copies via GoSystems Tax RS.
- Trained and checked new hires aged 24–48 as the youngest member of the team (at 18–19), on tax assembly, processing, and firm systems, while carrying a full college course load through peak season.