Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Personal Information
Languages
Awards
Engineering Projects
Timeline
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Dayana Navarro

Hawthorne,CA

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

Parts Sales Associate Manager

AutoZone
Los Angeles, CA
01.2026 - Current
  • Applied knowledge of vehicle electrical and mechanical systems
  • Used diagnostic tools to test automotive batteries and charging systems
  • Assisted customers in identifying and selecting automotive parts.
  • Provided product information to enhance customer understanding.
  • Managed daily reports and store needs

Student Manager

Graduate Family Housing, UCSD
07.2025 - Current
  • Managed resident services including move-ins, access issues and logistics
  • Trained employees and created work schedules and maintained an organized system to make sure move-ins and move-outs of residents would run smoothly

Student Manager

Goody's Market and Sunshine Market, UCSD
07.2023 - 01.2026
  • Helped to operate and launch two new campus locations.
  • Trained employees and managed scheduling for staff

Student

Medical Careers Program, MLK
08.2021 - 06.2022
  • Helped with basic trainings and shadowed doctors as well as a surgeon
  • Helped with patients, drawing blood, taking stats, gathering all patient information required by doctors
  • Achieved CPR certification through comprehensive training program

Student

Engineering Program, UCLA
08.2021 - 02.2022
  • Worked with graduate students on aerospace, electrical, and mechanical projects
  • Assisted in developing engineering designs in academic projects

Education

Bachelors - Aerospace Engineering, Astronomy and Astrophysics

University of California San Diego
La Jolla
06-2027

Skills

  • SolidWorks
  • AutoCAD
  • Structural analysis
  • Dynamics and vibrations
  • Fluid mechanics
  • Aerospace Mechanics
  • Aerodynamics
  • Dimensional analysis
  • Python
  • MATLAB
  • Java
  • C/C

Personal Information

Work Authorization: U.S Permanent Resident ( Green Card Holder)

Languages

  • English
  • Spanish

Awards

  • Chancellor's Associates
  • Scholarship Program (CASP), Awarded by the University of California San Diego.

Engineering Projects

Orbital Motion Simulation (MATLAB/Python)

  • Built a numerical simulation to model satellite motion around Earth.
  • Used time-stepping methods to calculate position and velocity over time.
  • Plotted orbital paths and checked results against expected physical behavior.

Arduino Based Automated Irrigation System

  • Built a sensor driven control system using an Arduino microcontroller
  • Programmed system process sensor input and trigger a pump based on defined thresholds.
  • Tested and debugged hardware-software interactions to improve system performance.

Timeline

Parts Sales Associate Manager

AutoZone
01.2026 - Current

Student Manager

Graduate Family Housing, UCSD
07.2025 - Current

Student Manager

Goody's Market and Sunshine Market, UCSD
07.2023 - 01.2026

Student

Medical Careers Program, MLK
08.2021 - 06.2022

Student

Engineering Program, UCLA
08.2021 - 02.2022

Bachelors - Aerospace Engineering, Astronomy and Astrophysics

University of California San Diego
Dayana Navarro