Esther Tran

Product + data person. I make sure the numbers and the people agree with each other.

HR Data Transformation & AI Intern at Louis Vuitton in New York. Before that: product management in mental health, LLMs for clinical trials and a sensor that detects period leaks.

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Biosystems engineering degree, statistics on the side. Three years in clinics taught me how healthcare actually runs. Then I got into building the tools: a leak-detecting wearable, an LLM chatbot for clinical trials and product work for a mental health clinic.

Now I build HR data pipelines and dashboards at Louis Vuitton. It turns out people data needs the same care as patient data, just with better handbags.

Projects

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001Sneaky LeakyA menstrual leakage detecting device2024
Sneaky Leaky: the pink heart-shaped wearable sensor next to the companion app showing device status and today’s monitoring summary
problemPeriod leaks are common, stressful and usually noticed too late.
approachLed product discovery and design end to end. Ran user empathy interviews, usability studies and an ethical data privacy assessment to define requirements, then built an Arduino sensor that sends real-time alerts to a companion mobile flow.
result90% detection accuracy in testing. Pitched to 200+ attendees and secured faculty sponsorship for continued development.
HardwareArduinoMobile UX
UC Davis Engineering Design Showcase
002Work ReviewAn AI sounding board for explaining your work to non-technical stakeholders2026
problemNot every workplace has a technical person on hand when you need one to check your thinking against.
approachBuilt an app that acts as a sounding board and a mentor.
resultReal-time feedback on the work itself and on how to communicate it to non-technical stakeholders, in meetings and check-ins.
AIProductPrototype
Open the app →
003YouTube FriendsA synchronous watch-party feature to increase YouTube Premium buy-ins2025
problemPremium is a solo purchase. Watching together means screen-sharing hacks or leaving the platform.
approachSurveyed 50+ people to identify pain points, then ran interviews and usability tests, mapped competitors, wrote the PRD and prototyped a social watch party built into Premium.
resultA tested prototype and business case presented at the Product Space Showcase.
ProductUser researchPrototype
Product Space ShowcaseView the prototype →
004PLA Second LifeTurning 3D printing waste into sheets for laser cutting2026
problemFailed prints and supports from 3D printers end up in the trash.
approachProduct-managed a client project for a bioinstrumentation professor. The team built a system that shreds discarded PLA, then melts it in a heat press into even sheets. Validated through CAD modeling and usability tests.
resultA working shredding and heat press system that gives discarded PLA a new life as laser-cutting stock.
HardwareCADSustainability
UC Davis Senior Design

Experience

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Sep 2026 – Present

Louis Vuitton

HR Data Transformation & AI Intern
DataNew York, NY
  • Selected for a position on the HR data team, acting as product liaison between client stakeholders, business leaders and data engineering teams.
  • Leading an initiative with the Louis Vuitton warehouse to reduce repair backlogs and boost artisan efficiency, building performance metrics that support data-backed promotion decisions.
  • Built and deployed a supply chain Power BI dashboard, turning complex operational needs into clear success metrics through requirements gathering and usability studies.
  • Integrating AI development tools and responsible AI practices (accuracy reviews, bias mitigation) into data pipelines.
Nov 2025 – Aug 2026

Growing Minds Mental Health Services

Product Manager, Partnerships & Growth
ProductRemote
  • Ran user research and qualitative interviews to find friction points, informing the feature roadmap and boosting product adoption by 25%.
  • Led the College Student Mental Health Campaign: strategy, outreach and multi-channel activation for high-need populations.
  • Built partnerships with UC Davis Health & Wellness and student organizations to widen access to care.
  • Worked with engineering and design on product requirements and milestones, and used SQL to track post-launch performance.
  • Designed HIPAA-compliant outreach assets in Figma.
Sep 2025 – Jun 2026

UC Davis Senior Design

Product Manager
ProductDavis, CA
  • Managed a client project for a bioinstrumentation professor: a shredding and heat press system that turns discarded PLA into even sheets for laser cutting.
  • Ran usability and validation testing through CAD modeling.
Sep 2025 – Dec 2025

Product Space @ UC Davis

Product Manager Fellow
ProductDavis, CA
  • Won 1st Place Best Pitch leading a cross-functional team through market research, product mission definition and rapid prototype testing.
  • Analyzed user datasets with statistical models to evaluate product trade-offs, improving scenario forecasting accuracy by 70%.
Jul 2024 – Sep 2024

Turmerik

Software Engineer Intern
EngineeringRemote
  • Designed and trained an LLM-based chatbot in Python that guides clients toward relevant clinical trials.
  • Applied NLP to extract, clean and tokenize transcript data; contributed to parsing pipelines and weekly code reviews.
Jan 2024 – Jun 2024

Sneaky Leaky

Founder & Product Lead
HardwareDavis, CA
  • Owned the roadmap from idea to prototype; integrated Arduino sensors with a mobile UX.
  • Validated 90% detection accuracy and pitched to 200+ attendees, securing faculty sponsorship.

-- archived  Before tech, three years in clinics: Certified Nursing Assistant at Care Indeed, plus medical receptionist and physician intern with Dr. John Dang (2021–2024). Hence the bedside manner.

Skills

Product

Product strategyUser researchPRDsUsability testingAgileMarket research

Data

SQLPythonPower BIExcelStatistics

AI

Prompt engineeringGenerative AIResponsible AINLP

Build & design

FigmaCADArduino

Education & credentials

education
B.S. Biological Systems Engineering, Minor in Statistics
University of California, Davis · 2021 – 2026
research
Undergraduate Research Assistant
University of California, Davis · Oct 2022 – Jun 2024

Advised by Dr. Jelmer Eerkens, supporting PhD student Diana Malarchik. Transcribed cursive San Francisco mortuary records to study dentition and health trends in 19th-century San Francisco.

certificationsInside LVMHGenerative AI Fast TrackData Fast Track
honors1st Place Best Pitch, Product SpaceDean’s ListAP Scholar with Honor
languages
EnglishNative
VietnameseLimited working
SwedishElementary

Volunteering

May 2022 – Sep 2023
Health Educator
Health Education and Promotion

Raised awareness of mental, sexual and physical health through tabling and wellness events; 30+ service hours per quarter.

May 2022 – Sep 2023
Peer Tutor
CS Tutoring

Tutored intro Python students on a weekly basis and stayed on call via Discord for debugging and Gradescope rescues.

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