Amanda Sun Email & Phone Number

Palo Alto, California, United States

* Lead designer for Q for Sales SaaS sales enablement product from later stage design conception to Beta launch to GA product launch (June 2021 - March 2022).* Collaborate closely with Product Management and Engineering leads to break down feature requirements, estimate design scope, and understand how the feature addresses user problems* Acting design manager for in house designer and external design agency to critique designs, provide product knowledge, and manage their workload… Show more * Lead designer for Q for Sales SaaS sales enablement product from later stage design conception to Beta launch to GA product launch (June 2021 - March 2022).* Collaborate closely with Product Management and Engineering leads to break down feature requirements, estimate design scope, and understand how the feature addresses user problems* Acting design manager for in house designer and external design agency to critique designs, provide product knowledge, and manage their workload * Lead a UI refresh effort to restyle all pages in our application to use an updated color style guide and UI components (June 2022 - November 2022)* Partnering with internal sales teams to conduct proxy user testings for major features in our product* Presented large scale designs to important stakeholders including EVP, VP of engineering, and PM that break down the user problems, design process used, and proposed design. Show less

Foster City, Ca

• Lead designer for the +5 b2b and consumer facing applications: EnergyIP Meter Data Management System, Distributed Energy Management System, DEMS Portal, Low Voltage Outage Management System, and Substation Device Management.• Developed in depth use cases, user personas, user journeys, wireframes, site maps, and visual mockups using Balsamiq and Gliffy.• Written and presented +40 detailed UI specs to the development team and project management that outline precise functionality and… Show more • Lead designer for the +5 b2b and consumer facing applications: EnergyIP Meter Data Management System, Distributed Energy Management System, DEMS Portal, Low Voltage Outage Management System, and Substation Device Management.• Developed in depth use cases, user personas, user journeys, wireframes, site maps, and visual mockups using Balsamiq and Gliffy.• Written and presented +40 detailed UI specs to the development team and project management that outline precise functionality and interaction patterns across multiple unique software products.• Effectively communicated with developers to determine implementation difficulties and with product managers to fully understand customers' requirements.• Prototyped our designs using HTML/CSS.• Applied stylistic fit and finish fixes in production code in the following browsers: Google Chrome, IE 11, Edge, and Firefox.• Created several customer and partner surveys to assess how they view the functionality and usability of our software products.• Interviewed multiple customers to discover and collect their current pain points and jobs to be done, helping us understand in more detail their current operations and the challenges they face.• Facilitated a co-creation workshop with our customers involving challenge mapping and design studio exercises for Meter Data Management topics. • Contributed to defining components and their behaviors in our internal design system. Show less

Foster City, Ca

• Aided in the development of use case and wireframes using Balsamiq • Written and presented multiple detailed UI specs to development and project management that outline precise functionality and interaction patterns across four unique software products • Learned to effectively communicated with developers to determine technical feasibility behind proposed designs and with product managers to fully understand customers' requirements • Conducted several customer and partner surveys… Show more • Aided in the development of use case and wireframes using Balsamiq • Written and presented multiple detailed UI specs to development and project management that outline precise functionality and interaction patterns across four unique software products • Learned to effectively communicated with developers to determine technical feasibility behind proposed designs and with product managers to fully understand customers' requirements • Conducted several customer and partner surveys to assess how they view our the functionality and usability of our software products Show less

Alameda, Ca

• Designed Data Management Plans and Case Report Form Completion Guidelines for two post market trial studies.• Entered, verified, and tracked case report forms for current FDA and European clinical trials• Issued and resolved queries in several databases OpenClinica and Clindex by reliable communication with CRAs. • Ensured proper handling of data to be compliant with CFR 11 for +5 clinical trials

• Improve curriculum for the course Sense, Sensibility, and Science that introduces problem solving techniques. • Integrated real world policies regarding cognitive psychology, game theory, philosophy, economics, and political science into course to provide explicit examples of practical decision making. • Collaborating with a team of 3 professors and 10+ students to design homework, test questions, and teaching tools.Big Ideas Courses are courses developed when multiple… Show more • Improve curriculum for the course Sense, Sensibility, and Science that introduces problem solving techniques. • Integrated real world policies regarding cognitive psychology, game theory, philosophy, economics, and political science into course to provide explicit examples of practical decision making. • Collaborating with a team of 3 professors and 10+ students to design homework, test questions, and teaching tools.Big Ideas Courses are courses developed when multiple professors from different disciplines are brought together to discuss big ideas. Show less

• Provided writing and communication-related support by researching, proofreading, and editing written materials.• Assisted with the production of online publicity materials and social media.• Facilitated in running lectures by setting up, hosting the information table, and answering questions.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Conducted a literature review that compiles current research and trends on medical cannabis.• Extracted studies from several journals such as Journal of Pharmacology, Journal of Biochemistry, Science, etc.• Identified key trends in cancer reduction, brain abnormalities in relation to cannabis and presented findings to team members and supervisor. The Dr. Bird Project is a non-profit global health initiative launching in Jamaica. It brings medical and non-medical… Show more • Conducted a literature review that compiles current research and trends on medical cannabis.• Extracted studies from several journals such as Journal of Pharmacology, Journal of Biochemistry, Science, etc.• Identified key trends in cancer reduction, brain abnormalities in relation to cannabis and presented findings to team members and supervisor. The Dr. Bird Project is a non-profit global health initiative launching in Jamaica. It brings medical and non-medical students together with teachers and mentors through a work vacation program. The project will create community outreach programs that not only increase access to healthcare but also expand the scope of health care, integrating naturopathic, holistic practices and eastern philosophy with western medicine. Show less

Haas School Of Business

• Ran lab based experiments for the Cognitive Science department using Qualtrics.• Directly contributed to the design and execution of projects by editing procedural scripts and actively manipulating the independent variables. • Collected and analyzed data from experiments run in Berkeley and from Internet based data.

• Developed lesson plans that engage students to read books.• Tutored adolescents in English and writing individually and in a group setting.

Bachelor’S Degree, Cognitive Science And Molecular Toxicology

Neuroscience And Toxicology

Activities and Societies: Pembroke College Circle Studied abroad in Summer 2014 at Pembroke and King's College

Experiential Learning: Organizational Context, Self Reflection, A

Studied abroad in the Summer of 2015