Amara Guifarro
About Amara Guifarro
Amara Guifarro is a Project Manager at Quantcast, where she has worked since 2022. She has a background in project management and security, with previous roles at Quantcast, Year Up, and Airbnb.
Work at Quantcast
Amara Guifarro currently serves as a Project Manager at Quantcast, a position held since 2022. In this role, she coordinates cross-functional teams to ensure effective communication and project completion. Prior to her current role, she worked as an Associate Project Manager at Quantcast from 2021 to 2022, and as an Intern Project Manager from 2020 to 2021. During her tenure, she has utilized OKRs and project goals to guide project management processes and facilitates meetings to support the project management team.
Experience at Year Up
Amara Guifarro participated in Year Up, where she studied Project Management from 2020 to 2021. During her time at Year Up, she developed leadership skills and aimed to leverage her experience to assist other students in discovering opportunities. She also worked as a Project Manager Trainee at Year Up for 10 months, gaining valuable experience that contributed to her subsequent roles in project management.
Previous Roles in Security
Before transitioning into project management, Amara Guifarro worked in security roles in the San Francisco Bay Area. She served as a Security Professional at Airbnb from 2018 to 2020 and as a Security Guard at Allied Universal during the same period. These positions provided her with foundational skills in communication and situational awareness, which are beneficial in her current project management role.
Educational Background in Engineering
Amara Guifarro studied Civil Engineering at City College of San Francisco from 2016 to 2018. This educational background provided her with analytical and problem-solving skills that are applicable in project management. Following her studies in engineering, she furthered her education in project management through Year Up.