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Apprenti creates alternative pathways to access tech talent and help organizations address digital skills shortages, providing economic mobility to underrepresented groups by identifying, training, and placing diverse talent in tech careers.

• I help purpose-driven organizations optimize their impact through strategic research and thoughtful user-centered design solutions.
• Develop research plans, design surveys and interview scripts, conduct user interviews
• Analyze and synthesize generative and exploratory research, develop user personas, journey maps, empathy maps
• Create wireframes and low, mid, and high fidelity prototypes
• Design user testing plans for moderated and unmoderated prototype usability tests
• Conduct remote moderated usability tests, draft testing reports to share usability analysis and recommendations with stakeholders

Chicago

• Gensler is a global architecture, design, and planning firm. As a studio coordinator in their Chicago office, I managed the day-to-day operations of a 40-person studio. Additional responsibilities:
• Facilitated studio leadership meetings and strategic business meetings.
• Researched design and market trends.
• Designed, curated, and published monthly technical newsletter.
• Edited design documents for clarity and grammar.
• Assembled and analyzed studio financial and operational reports.

Greater Chicago Area

• Chicago ENT is a premier medical practice specializing in comprehensive ENT, Allergy, and Sleep medicine throughout the Chicagoland area.
• Managed all company financials: processed accounts receivable/payable daily, issued invoices and time logs for practice physicians at 6 partner hospitals, generated profit & loss reports, fulfilled tax requirements as.
• Designed and implemented a new company-wide system to more efficiently track orders placed, received, and paid.
• Administered payroll, employee benefits, employee profit-sharing plan.
• Edited print and radio marketing materials for content, clarity, and grammar.
• Coordinated annual charity event hosted by CEO & Medical Director. Created precise pre- and post-event donor correspondence timelines that resulted in a pledge-collection rate increase of 20% from the previous year’s.

Evanston, IL

• CEP provides middle and high school students with socially conscious programs–challenging and inspiring them to be more actively engaged in their communities.
• Collected and organized student, educator, and partner organization feedbacksurveys for quantitative and qualitative analysis of program impact on all program participants.
• Coordinated recreational programs and transportation for CEP students.
• Prepared and managed program supplies and materials.

Bucktown, Chicago

Greater Chicago Area

• 826CHI is Chicago’s chapter of 826 National, a nationally award-winning creative writing andpublishing center for 3,500+ CPS youth.
• Researched grant opportunities and composed grant proposals resulting in $30,000+ in funding.
• Secured corporate sponsorships and silent auction items for the 2 highest-grossing fundraising events of the year.
• Partnered with Chicago retailers for a back-to-school drive, resulting indonations of backpacks, school supplies, and healthy after-school snacks for 75+ students.
• Managed donor database.-Supported direct mailing campaigns and drafted personalized donation receipts.

Chicago, IL

Bachelor Of Arts, English Literature

Activities and Societies: Montage Literary Arts Magazine, Global Literacy Initiative, Illini Union Board-Weekend Entertainment, University.

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