CJ Trowbridge

Academy Stay

Project Manager January 2024 - Present Temporary

• Helped interview and hire the initial team for this new nonprofit.
• Applied for and won a CARB grant to build a new urban community garden at a new housing project.
• Coordinated materials, vendors, and volunteers to accomplish the construction and planting.
• Worked with experts to develop a curriculum for the students to learn about cloning, propagation, seed collection, and of course growing food.

The People's Project: The Permaculture Mutual Aid Network

Member; Flat Organization April 2021 - Present

• Build, manage, and facilitate website and social media presence for The Permaculture Mutual Aid Network.
• This program or The People's Project fundraises and purchases lands to put in land trust.
• We create free and open intentional communities where anyone can come and live sustainably, or just visit and learn about the process.
• I personally specialize in sustainable off-grid infrastructure development.

Comfort & Joy

Board Advisor, Communications, EDI, Power Grid Operations May 2018 - Present

• Fundraising for years through various channels to pay for needed services and materials for the Paiute and Ohlone tribes.
• Founding member and Chair of EDI committee "Big Queer Tent" as an ad-hoc of Communications Committee.
• Power grid team member, orchestrating power grid operations at Burning Man and events in the city.
• DJ at events like Afterglow and Freak Chic.

Burners Without Borders

Regional Chair For The Bay Area February 2020 - Present

• Lead an organization developing local disaster response and mutual aid efforts, particularly with regard to addressing the infrastructure needs of unhoused people in the Bay Area.
• Build and educate the public about solar power systems.
• Build and manage electrical microgrids for SF street events, Burning Man neighborhoods, and experimental communities across the country.

Open AI

Early Academic Tester Fall 2021 - January 2024

• Even before I was officially a graduate student in AI at SFSU, I was selected as an early academic tester for OpenAI’s new products before they are released to the general public. I had already been using their base models for some time in undergrad.
• My early academic test work included products like GPT-3, GPT-3.5, GPT-3.5-instruct, GPT-3.5-turbo, Chat With GPT 3 (Now ChatGPT), Dall-E 2, GPT-4, etc.

Share The Land Trust

Played myself on TV April 2023 - May 2023

• Filmed a television show for a major network about how to fund and build free communities.
• Raised funds, bought land under a nonprofit land trust which we created, built free homes and infrastructure.
• This was my sixth time doing this or something like it, but the first time it will be televised.
• Took the lead on the new website, designed to incorporate all the lessons we've learned on how to do what we do.
• Lead implementation of a new artificial intelligence which knows and understands everything about what we do in order to write content for the website and chat with visitors to answer detailed questions.

Chinatown Community Development Center

Assistant Property Manager August 2022 - April 2023

• Managed a large non-profit affordable housing project in San Francisco with over 500 residential tenants on top of a floor of commercial space.
• Assist low-income residents in navigating the complex regulatory and policy frameworks that allow them to access affordable housing and other forms of assistance.
• Leverage Yardi and other tools to facilitate daily operations.
• Focused on building relationships with team members across departments and throughout the organization

ClipperCreek

Product Support Administrator June 2021 - August 2021 (Between Semesters)

• Develop and leverage comprehensive knowledge of electric vehicle charging infrastructure and products.
• Manage sales channels and schedule order fulfillment based on manufacturing schedules across hundreds of product lines.

GRID Alternatives

Summer Internship June 2021 - August 2021

• Trained and certified for installing home solar power and electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
• Learned to leverage these skills plus funding sources to provide free or affordable solar power infrastructure, electric vehicle charging infrastructure, and even electric vehicles for people in marginalized communities.

Tech 2U

Lead Software Engineer April 2013 - June 2017

• Led a team building a proprietary web-based front-end for a legacy CRM.
• Developed marketing automation tools which brought in over a million dollars a year in new revenue.
• Developed audit automation tools.
• Developed KPI dashboards.

Sequoia Equities

Intrapreneur September 2011 – May 2012

• Transformed a failed cafe into a thriving business with 1600% growth and a 50% profit margin.
• Developed relationships with customers and vendors like Starbucks, Sysco, and others.
• New food carts brought in an average of $2,000 per week, with 75% profit.

Starbucks

2008 - 2014

• Playbook Trainer: I led implementation of scalable labor algorithms in the Sacramento market.
• Coffee Master: I led my partners in product knowledge and identifying sales opportunities.
• Learning Coach, Barista Trainer: I trained new employees at some of the nation's busiest stores in Portland and Sacramento by developing customized employee development based on individual learning styles.

Sierra College Sociology Department

Internship August 2019 - December 2019

• Conducted complex meta-analysis of thousands of demographic permutations to identify which groups are most impacted by challenges affecting success.

Education

San Francisco State University - Lam Family College of Business 2022 - 2024

• Masters in Business Administration
• A second simultaneous graduate degree in Ethical Artificial Intelligence

San Francisco State University 2020-2021

• Bachelors in Urban Studies and Planning
• A Minor in Queer Ethnic Studies.

Sierra College 2017-2020

Highest Honors, Dean’s List, President’s Honor Roll.

• Associate’s Degrees in
  • Computer Science
  • Behavioral Science
  • Natural Science with an Emphasis in Astronomy
  • Sociology
  • Social Justice
  • Women’s Studies
  • Arts and Cultures
  • LGBT Studies and Queer Studies with Honors