System Designer for Child Care & Family Support
Tools, data work, and systems I've built — alongside the community and policy work that shapes them.
Web platform for San Francisco Family Child Care providers to report vacancies and connect with families seeking care. Includes provider portal with roster tracking, financial assistance eligibility screener, and CA regulation compliance checking.
Interactive scenario-based policy simulator for San Francisco's early childhood education system. Explores 5 policy scenarios — from expanding subsidies to 200% AMI families, to stabilizing a system losing capacity faster than it can build. Shows trade-offs, costs, who benefits, and who's harmed for each approach.
Interactive map dashboard of 1,144 licensed child care facilities across San Francisco. Filter by facility type, license status, capacity, and contract status with color-coded markers and summary charts.
Comprehensive analysis toolkit for California child care data from the Resource & Referral Network spanning 1996 to 2023. Covers licensed supply, cost of care, income, labor force, and demand across all 58 counties.
Automated pipeline that extracts data from county-level child care portfolio PDFs, normalizes it into clean longitudinal datasets, and generates an interactive dashboard for exploring trends and comparisons.
Automated system for downloading, organizing, and analyzing meeting documents from the San Francisco Department of Early Childhood. Extracts metadata, deduplicates files, and enables intelligent querying across the full archive.
Prototype for a redesigned homepage for California's statewide child care search platform. Features a dual-pathway design letting families either search independently or connect with an expert for guided help.
Command-line tool for analyzing 5-ball juggling rhythm through real-time microphone audio analysis. Detects catches, tracks timing consistency, and provides session-over-session statistics.
Free one-on-one and small group tech consultations for Chinese-speaking family child care providers. Sessions cover website building (Google Sites), domain registration, online advertising, licensing navigation, business setup, and digital presence — all in Mandarin and Cantonese.
Parallel Chinese-language sessions organized alongside statewide CA Minor Renovation & Repair Grant workshops. Covered SAM registration, bid requirements, application walkthroughs, and budget templates — making $75K grant opportunities accessible to providers who would otherwise be excluded by language.
Custom sign-in and attendance tracking system for Chinese-language FCC training sessions. Replaced manual attendance with a simple web form providers could access during live Zoom sessions.
Suite of lightweight community tools including live polling for Leadership Cafes, collaborative note-taking during meetings, event registration, and resource link shortener — all used across statewide multilingual advocacy events.
Workshop materials and enrollment scripts for Family Child Care providers, using storytelling and trust-building frameworks to help providers communicate their value to families.
Professional Learning Community session materials teaching practical AI use cases and data literacy to child care providers. Multilingual content with prompt cards and hands-on activities.
Director supporting family child care providers through networking, advocacy, and capacity-building, with a focus on storytelling, systems navigation, and enrollment support.
Founding member and strategic contributor. Participating in coalition strategy, providing feedback on strategic planning with attention to FCC provider realities, and elevating policy issues to agencies like the Department of Early Childhood.
Technical Work Group member and Advisory Committee member. Contributing to the HBCC Research Essentials Toolkit and advising research on HBCC networks, FFN care, and PreK in family child care settings.
Web Content Manager strengthening data workflows, multilingual content, and web tools that help families navigate child care across California.
Contributing to planning around mixed-delivery universal prekindergarten, with a focus on the role of family child care and community-based programs.
If you'd like to collaborate on tools, research, storytelling, or system design — let's connect.