Danielle Allison Email & Phone Number

United States

Boxborough, Massachusetts, United States

- Provided mentorship and instruction in user-focused product design, technical/material challenges, and prototyping to the 15-student Yellow Team for senior capstone class 2.009: Product Engineering Processes as they developed a novel product prototype in 3 months. - Coordinated events for a class of 120 students by developing lecture and lab materials, capturing the student experience through photography and videography, and communicating with a staff of 50 people.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

- Spearheaded the development of a personal swim safety alert for use by children in backyard pools.- Directed a 15-person team under strict time constraints by developing tasks and timelines, delegating tasks, leading decision making, and maintaining a system image of the product as it was designed.- Conducted interviews and user testing with 24 parents, 9 children, and 15 industry professionals

I, along with 11 other orientation captains, led a team of 90 orientation leaders for the MIT freshman class of 1100 students. With this, I also facilitate small-group meetings with 15 of my own first-year students to review important information, and stay connected with them as needed throughout the year.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

- Worked in collaboration with Google on the haptic cues in their Pixel Pro phone. - Developing experiments and coding their GUIs in Android Studio and MATLAB- Executed user-testing and multi-dimensional scaling analysis to understand how different vibrations are perceived and can be used to enhance digital communications.

I worked as an Undergraduate Teaching Fellow (UTF) for the Terrascope class 12.000 - Solving Complex Problems in the fall. Together with the other UTFs we guided first-year students through the project-based class and acted as mentors since we have all experienced the class ourselves.

Remote

I worked as an Undergraduate Research Assistant for the Comparative Media Studies and Art, Culture, and Technology departments. My team helped create a new class (CMS.S61) for the fall of 2020 about Transmedia Art, Extraction, and Environmental Justice.

Remote

Four other MIT undergraduate students and I continued a spring design class project into the summer and fall of 2020 as a part-time internship.- Designed an easy-to-build, temporary, post-disaster shelter using accessible materials.- Presented a CAD design, materials list, and set of build instructions for assembly to our partners.

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering And Product Development, Gpa: 4.8

Activities and Societies: Minor in Music (concentration on Performance) The Chorallaries of MIT (Music Director, Business Manager.

International Baccalaureate

Activities and Societies: Choir (Outreach Committee), Bowling (Captain), Key Club (Treasurer)