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San Francisco Bay Area

Designing experiences to help new Schwab clients get the most out of their new bank and brokerage accounts.

San Jose, Ca

Foster employee engagement by delivering wireframes for products designed to create conversations within the workplace. Conduct industry research and combined it with user needs to ideate and design low-fidelity wireframes that are transferred to another designer for visual design. Working closely with the creative director to inform the product vision and decide how products function at a high level. Enhanced and created an easier customer experience with a user manual for a customer engagement app and the backend portal that supports it. Captured screenshots and documented corresponding user flows.Drive company value by implementing instances of customer engagement app for business enterprise customers using backend web portal and templates to do this.

San Jose, Ca

Delivered product vision in the form of low fidelity wireframes for presentation software for large touchscreen displays. Proposed new design solutions derived from research and existing knowledge of the user experience. Facilitate communication of design ideas to stakeholders by consolidating legacy design documents to reflect the current user experience of the company's business enterprise software offerings.

San Francisco Bay Area

Provide test data for firmware teams by executing testing protocol and recording instances of bugs and errors.

Streetart SF | Website redesign | User Experience DesignerImproved information architecture, usability, and developed a clear vision of user needs with a redesigned website to connect artists making street art with a global community.Chef Koochooloo | Ed-tech Android app concept| User Experience DesignerCollaborated with other designers to prototype a lesson planning mobile app for teachers. Lead research process of user interviews, surveys, business analysis, heuristic analysis, and contextual inquiry. Also lead usability testing team, creating briefs after every round of testing to highlight key insights and facilitate easier iteration. Additional contributions include ideation, wireframe prototyping, user flows, and research brief creation.

San Francisco Bay Area

Gathered insights on the user experience that informed the website redesign. Conducted a series of surveys and interviews to understand user motivations for buying high-end electric bikes online.

San Francisco, Ca

Participated in General Assembly's 10-week User Experience Design Immersive course. Worked individually and in tandem with classmates to design solutions to real-world problems through user research, visual design principles, sketches, wireframes, rapid prototyping, and usability testing. Reddit | Website feature | Research Lead & Project ManagerCollaborated on a team of designers for a concept tutorial modal for Reddit's website to assist new users. Lead user interviews, user research, and usability testing to deliver a clickable prototype.Burlington Coat Factory | Website redesign | UX Designer and ResearcherDesigned a feature concept for Burlington Coat Factory to give customers means to keep track online orders and contact customer service. Utilized user interviews, competitive analysis, user flows, sketches, and wireframes to design a new interface to show customers shipment progress and details. Delivered a clickable prototype.

Sunnyvale, Ca

• Instruct students in the basic skills and techniques of badminton.• Setup and take down poles and nets for badminton courts.

Minturn, Co

Assigned to the White River National Forest in Colorado.• Through electrofishing: identified, measured, and recorded trout species from remote creeks, removing invasive species. • Participated in surveys characterizing and measuring physical stream properties.• Participated in amphibian surveys in backcountry.• Using GPS, located and retrieved isolated stream monitoring devices.• Collected and examined macro-invertebrate samples from rivers and creeks.

Santa Cruz, Ca

• Fed fish, cleaned tanks, set up tanks for experiments, monitored fish health.• Videotaped, analyzed, and recorded activity of adult African Cichlid fish.• Weighed, measured and counted adult and juvenile African Cichlid fish.

Santa Cruz, Ca

• Identified bird songs, calls, and alarm calls from recordings.• Extracted calls and songs using software, cataloging them for later use.

Santa Cruz, Ca

Identified and removed invasive plant species from reserve land, planting native species of coastal scrub in their place. Transferred native plants from a greenhouse setting to planters destined for reserve land. Harvested and separated seeds to contribute to a seed bank of native plants to be used in future restoration projects.

Saratoga, Ca

- Assembled and installed hardware for 53 special purpose test computers.- Connected finished PCs to existing network infrastructure.- Executed procedures to generate Linux-based USB boot device for test systems.

Marine Biology, Marine Biology

User Experience Design

A 10 week immersive program that teaches the fundamental theories, techniques, and tools of user experience design. The program is taught.

Technical Communication Certificate