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Kirkland, WA, US

Menlo Park, CA, US

Owning UX Research as individual contributor with w for specific pipelines within the VR for work & future of work spaces. Both pipelines are in the discovery phase, requiring UX stradigy and discovery research, long term research planning and working closely with design to gain assess user and business needs for the MVP.

• Consulting, I use UX research, UX design, & UI/Visual Design to create products for web, android, iOS, and desktop.
• In 2018, I worked on four different products, verifying needs, identify business opportunities, estimating business value, and establishing methods to measure success through research.
• In 2019, I worked on a health app as well as began creating tools to make the UXR process more accessible for nonprofits.
• I continue to do nonprofit research and design between gigs to continue to foster my passion for data and design thinkingNotable Projects:Sexual Education Research, xxlabsHeuristic Usability Study - Moblie/WebUser.

This role involved working for an EdTech SAS as a product designer to plan and drive the discovery research and product ideation for a new educational web project focused on creating appealing pathways for parental engagement in their existing platform that's currently in school across the country.Skill Summary: This role involved product design - Ux.

Redmond, Washington, US

Working with the One Drive and Sharepoint Research team to conduct ongoing research for OneDrive Sync.

Redmond, Washington, US

I working with AI/NLP technologies research from a UX research angle and addressing the unique needs and challenges presented by working with customers who interact with through a voice interface.I mostly design End-to-end experience with all aspects of research (study design, recruiting, moderation, analysis, reporting) and hands-on experience with.

Mountain View, CA, US

• Worked with the internal engineering education teams for Machine Learning, AI, AI ethics, & the new googler orientation. Duties include writing research plans, design surveys and user studies, develop program intake.
• Created and established best practices & structure for new product intake for internal educational products.
• Created a team facing training that went through the importance of the educational experience as well as guidelines to move forward quickly and effectively.
• Drafted a multi-page proposal for a department overhaul on how new projects are handled, using lean product methods as a base for my recommendation. Notable Projects:Proposal UX Best Practice for Small TeamsResearch.

• Lead Product Designer / Koda Learning LLCAt Koda, I designed research plans, usability studies, UI, and content to fit the goal of using new methods to teach ASL through stories to deaf preschoolers.
• Shipped two products, The MaxASL app in the first 6 months and ASL mobile stickers in 3 ¬months.
• Lead research efforts by designing research plans to focus on usability factors & the unique needs of the target audience.
• Ran the art department solo, creating storyboards, product user flows, wireframes, designing the UI for the target audience & creating content that worked for that audience.Notable Projects:Max ASL – Research.

I worked with marketing and development teams to create visual designs for the e-commerce site. Job duties included working with redlines, working within brand guidelines, creating rapid mock-ups of pages and converting content into individual assets for responsive web design.

Bellevue, US

• Work for an agency with mid-range e-commerce clients to improve user experience & increase user engagement via UI improvements.
• Ran heuristic usability studies on client’s eCommerce and used data collected to redesign sites for usability
• Conducted quantitative research via google analytic data to improve SEO and as a result user trafficNotable projects:Worked closely with developer front end website redesign essenceofthesun.com to improve usability and.

Redmond, Washington, US

• I ran usability studies, collected both qualitative data for user research and quantitative data for Machine Learning & assisted in NLP-Natural Language processing for the Cortana project as well as collecting data for.
• Created successful research plans that identified pain points in Kinect interactions with only a background in film production and interviewing subjects for documentaries.
• Exceeding data gathering expectation ahead of deadlines & attracted more participates than any other usability project. Notable projectsGesture Tracking for Kinect Machine Learning Kinect Motion Usability StudyNLP.

La Grande, OR, US

La Grande, OR, US

Filmed and directed advertisement video for the media arts department. Was reasonable for pre and post production along with conducting interviews, managing final project, and hiring and managing crew.

Vr/Ar Ux Bootcamp, Industrial And Product Design

Certifcates, Human Computer Interaction, Product Design, Ux Design

Bachelor'S Degree, Digital Communication And Media/Multimedia