Amanda Sanchez Email & Phone Number

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Currently Research Lead for the Department of Justice - Civil Rights Division. Previously, Design Researcher for Massachusetts Paid Family & Medical Leave project:* Led year-long initiative targeting Underserved Communities, producing prioritized recommendations to enhance PFML program utilization for marginalized populations.* Conducted qualitative research with marginalized communities, leveraging trauma-informed approaches, multilingual methods, and collaboration with community advocates.* Guided user-centered design in scrum team, ensuring design quality, equity, and adherence to best practices and USWDS system.* Collaborated with product managers and engineers in agile environment, driving feature delivery.* Developed documentation for best practices during epic phases.* Devised thought framework with product leadership, enabling third-party leave applications.* Streamlined usability research with advanced tools, templates for efficiency.* Spearheaded usability testing for employer portal, improving data accuracy.* Provided actionable recommendations from continuous research findings to leadership and implementation teams.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Service Designer within Philips Sleep & Respironics Health market.* Worked within the Philips' Sleep and Respiratory Care (SRC) markets as a Service Designer on the Global Respironics Team, with a focus on the European and American respiratory sectors.* Employed advanced service design methodologies, conducting stakeholder interviews and comprehensive service mapping for front-end and back-end processes.* Prioritized patient information security while optimizing efficiency, emphasizing meticulous evaluation of potential software gaps jeopardizing patient health data integrity.* Co-facilitated research initiatives within a Philips Foundation-funded project, aimed at understanding barriers to Equitable Care in the US healthcare landscape.* Demonstrated dedication to user-centric design, cross-functional collaboration, and impactful change advocacy.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Instructor for the course 'Design for Interactions for Communications', a communication design fundamentals course. I also teach 'Document Design' to graduate students in the technical writing program.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Lead Instructor for the class 'Design for Interactions for Communications', a communication design fundamentals course.

Co-Teacher for Course Interaction Design Fundamentals Overview within the HCII Department

Greater Chicago Area

My main work experience revolves around UI and product work for large digital products. I’ve worked and helped develop scalable design systems for large companies in the insurance and finance world. I have experience in designing in an agile environment for iOS native apps. My detail to designing for accessibility is inherent in all of the work i do, inclusive design is a must. I have an interest in designing for digital products and want to continue to foster my growth in this sphere.

Cincinnati, Ohio Area

Elmhurst, Il

Designer for CGI’s Sustainability initiative. Took part in monthly sustainability team meetings wherein I would translate the companies goals into visuals. Made a month to month internal communications plan, in addition to updating assets and collateral for the sustainability campaign. Collaborated with engineer intern to create content. Also worked with HR to create banners for social media home pages. Other projects included, e-mail marketing, powerpoint design and assisting company’s rebranding process.

Master Of Design, Interaction Design

Bachelor Of Design, Graphic Design, Senior

Activities and Societies: CADA Diversity Committee, ICFF Fellow