About
Who I Am
I am a Business Economics student at UCLA, shaped heavily by the autonomy of being a transfer student. Navigating that process entirely on my own rewired how I value time, turning intentionality into my default setting. In practice, that means I love turning complex and manual systems into smooth and efficient processes.
Outside of work, you can catch me hitting thrift spots on the 5 freeway, hunting down public par 3 golf courses, or discovering local live jazz.
Experience
Where I've worked.
- Dissecting 30+ hours of cross-departmental interviews across 9 teams to pinpoint the costliest manufacturing gaps
- Building a 65+ slide business case for a new data operating model, winning VP-level repository design approval
- Redesigning item-code operating model for ~8% of 12K+ SKUs, cutting per-code creation time up to 20 minutes
- Analyzed Illinois donor trends to identify key behaviors, enabling outreach projected to increase donations by 30%
- Developed 4 donor personas to drive targeted engagement and motivated giving across the regional market
- Synthesized research into a 15-slide deck, chosen from top 11% of externs to present to the client's executive board
- Led monthly safety briefings for 100+ employees, using trend analysis to lower incident rates for a record 8 quarters
- Directed a 30-person team and optimized inventory as Level 6 Associate (2nd youngest in store history)
- Designed a centralized cost-tracking database for 200+ projects that reduced weekly budget analysis time by 15%
- Secured nationwide adoption across 24 U.S. sites by presenting a standardized tracking system to regional managers
- Streamlined reporting with macros, saving 3 hours weekly and accelerating ~30 monthly RFPs to boost satisfaction
- Managed the LA region's talent pipeline by orchestrating mentorship matches between 30+ high-achieving students and a network of 130+ industry professionals
- Optimized fulfillment for 26K+ SKUs by analyzing Shopify data trends to prioritize high-value inventory and increase turnover speed
- Combined my passion for soccer with coaching by designing goal-driven training for kids ages 6-13
Selected work
Projects.
Reel-to-Knowledge
I wanted to close the loop between “I watched an Instagram Reel” and “I lost it forever.”
- Share an Instagram Reel from my phone or through a Telegram bot
- A background process on my Mac downloads the video
- The audio is transcribed automatically
Speaking Coach
A speaking-practice app that runs entirely on my own computer. I record myself, it transcribes what I said and gives structured feedback against real communication frameworks, with no subscription and nothing leaving my Mac.
- Record a practice session on my own computer
- The recording is transcribed automatically, entirely on-device
- A free tier of an AI model analyzes delivery and content
Off the clock
Things I like.
Contact
Let's talk.
Feel free to reach out! As they say, “a stranger is just a friend you haven't met yet.”
braydenmims@ucla.edu