Initially contracted to make mockups and iOS assets for this early-stage startup; ended redesigning user interactions after clarifying Kravin’s strategy for taking on the social network marketing sector • Performed target market and requirements analysis with clients to understand business goals• Re-envisioned user interactions, optimizing layouts in order to increase conversion

Brought together students, educators, engineers, industry professionals, faculty and museum staff to produce STEM outreach programs, including an 8-week high school robotics competition • Injected design thinking to PiE’s engineering process by championing user testing projects• Improved the student building experience; increased first day kit completion rate from 80% to 100%• Re-designed the annual report given to sponsors, raising over $10,000 for next year's funds• Organized 100+ members into projects in engineering, event planning, education and fundraising• Transitioned financials to Quickbooks, then Xero, documenting procedures to enable accurate bookkeeping• Revitalized social media presence on Facebook, and introduced an Instagram campaign to interact with high school teams during the competition season

Designed user interface and experience for a visual programming IDE that would give students a better robot programming experience compared to existing interface• Collaborated with hardware and software engineers to design with technical constraints in mind• Led a team of 12 in organizing a robotics competition scrimmage for 200+ high school students

Participated in redesign of numerous features of CaptureProof’s medical media platform, including onboarding, registration and the core interactions between doctors and patients• Evaluated existing app for consistency and usability across iOS and web to guide redesigns• Iterated through wireframes in Balsamiq before making mockups in Photoshop and Illustrator• Generated a directory of icons and assets with consistent branding and design language• Reduced one-off design request inefficiencies by creating templates for marketing and fundraising materials

Quickly learned Ruby on Rails, Bootstrap, OWL and relational database fundamentals to develop a web portal for exchanging design methods, adapting to frequent changes in data architecture• Applied MVC and RESTful architecture practices, as well as test-driven development with RSpec• Mapped a taxonomy in OWL into data models in a MySQL database

Mentored 60+ students during labs and discussion sections for the course “The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programming”• Explained concepts such as higher order functions and recursion with a variety of methods, including environment diagrams, metaphors, and drawings

Produced graphic design products for campus and professional organizations in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign