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Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

⦿ Designed a new website for the CEO of Chiave Talent, with in-depth copywriting and logo redesign recommendations, successfully presenting expedited deliverables for a 2-week turnaround.⦿ Successfully collaborated with the CEO of Talent Climb to build out a new company website and delivered a new logo, on-brand copywriting, and SEO recommendations.⦿ Recruited colleagues to present website prototypes and iterated on feedback to make adjustments to design, copy, and functionalities.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

⦿ Optimized the information architecture of UCB’s corporate services division and led a team to help redesign the corporate workshop program increasing offerings and customizations by 200%.⦿ Performed in-depth competitive analysis and conducted over 10 interviews with past employees and clients, gaining invaluable insights into pain points and user needs, which were strategically incorporated into the new program.⦿ Facilitated stakeholder meetings with the CEO to initiate the research phase, ensuring alignment and a shared understanding of objectives.⦿ Delivered a comprehensive combined 50 page report ahead of schedule, presenting recommendations to the CEO that resulted in an immediate request for further insights across other company verticals.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

WATERWORKS AQUATICS SIGN UP + CHECKOUT REDESIGN⦿ Recruited 10+ participants on social media to share pain points through a forum and conducted 3 insightful interviews, gaining a clearer understanding of user needs, empowering design solutions that resonated with their desires.⦿ Streamlined task flow by 50%, by using research data to optimize the registration and class purchase pages of Waterwork’s responsive website and dashboard.⦿ Updated the UI through a comprehensive redesign of icons, typography, color schemes, and logos, resulting in a more seamless user experience that enhanced navigation, readability, and overall usability.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

⦿ Utilized competitive analysis, conducted content audits, and applied heuristic evaluation techniques to develop a user friendly application that seamlessly connects home cooks with expert cooking tutors.⦿ Successfully recruited a diverse pool of over 60 user research participants through social media who actively engaged in a 15-question survey, yielding valuable insights on their cooking preferences, guiding key features.⦿ Conducted six insightful qualitative interviews and ran a 10 person card sorting session, obtaining valuable user perspectives, which enabled sound architecture and the creation of user personas, journeys, and task flows. ⦿ Developed a rapid prototype crafted from mid-fidelity wireframes, conducted six remote usability tests and used affinity mapping and a rainbow spreadsheet to help improve writing and page redundancies. ⦿ Leveraged results from 24 A/B tests of splash and onboarding pages and a comprehensive accessibility evaluation to help finalize an interactive, hi-fidelity prototype in Figma.

𝐈𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐞𝐧𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐣𝐮𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐚 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐧 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐒𝐚𝐟𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐏𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐘 𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐂𝐄, 𝐚 𝐧𝐨𝐧-𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢-𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐝𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐚𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬. ⦿ Led a team of 5 UX Writers for Phase 1 and met with founders, key stakeholders and project managers to solidify goals, deliverables and a project roadmap.⦿ Spearheaded the creation of microcopy for SMS text interactions and automated responses by taking a trauma-informed approach, emphasizing de-escalation strategies and empathetic mediator communication.⦿ Organized weekly creative team sprints in Figjam, which helped produce a comprehensive content analysis of 8 competitors and a functional Voice and Tone guide for ongoing content decisions.⦿ Aided the Research team with competitive analysis, persona creations, and interview question development and had over 90% of content notes accepted by Design for their 30+ page final prototype. ⦿ Fostered cross-collaboration with research, design, engineering and key stakeholders, ensuring alignment of project goals and deliverables, presented project updates at weekly all-hands meetings, and delivered a final presentation to the Philly Truce founders, highlighting phase accomplishments and future recommendations.⦿ Developed a comprehensive hand-off document organizing links, progress, roadblocks and recommendations for the seamless transition to Phase 2 and contributed to an all-hands retrospective in Miro.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

⦿ Led a team of 3 researchers to conduct primary and secondary research for the development of a Parkinson's Disease symptom tracking app.⦿ Collaborated with Project Lead on schedule and deadlines and synthesized data from previous research to provide team with pertinent information.⦿ Spearheaded efforts to develop proto-personas, a recruitment plan, surveys, interview questions, and recruitment sources.⦿ Cross-collaborated with designers and offered suggestions on moodboards and key functions.

New York And Los Angeles

⦿ Performed in hundreds of critically acclaimed improv and sketch shows.⦿ Invited to join UCB's longest running team, The Stepfathers. ⦿ Regular performer at flagship show, Asssscat (now Elefante).⦿ Three time 3x3 tournament champion.⦿ Founded team that accumulated 60+ wins and 2 championships for improv competition, Cagematch. ⦿ One of ten in the country selected to perform in the Just For Laughs Festival: Characters Division in Montreal.

New York, New York, United States

⦿ Facilitated corporate workshops for Facebook, Google, Budweiser, PWC, and boutique advertising and marketing firms focusing on creative collaboration, active listening, and affective communication.⦿ Taught over 100 Sold-out Core & Advanced classes and workshops.⦿ Directed multiple experimental advanced placement classes and sketch shows.⦿ Nominated for Improv Coach of the Year

Eastern Region

⦿ Touring Company Leader and Performer⦿ Organized tour logistics for team on location and was the point of contact for client⦿ Performed at over 50 colleges and universities

Ny, La, And Everywhere In Between

⦿ 60+ credits on IMDB ⦿ Recent Credits: A League of Their Own || Superstore || Broad City || Orange is the New Black⦿ Performed in over 100 sketches and new media content⦿ My short film, Sunday Dinner, was accepted into over 20 film festivals, winning the Audience Award at the Ashland Film Festival.⦿ Member of SAG-AFTRA

New York + Los Angeles

⦿ Worked on a small team for The Bazelevs Group developing original ideas, refining pitches, constructing story arcs and outlines, and editing content for feature length, live-action films. ⦿ Hired to write a full-length screenplay based on foreign IP, with two rounds of notes and a polish on an accelerated timeline.⦿ Contributed sketches, rewrites, and content strategy to online brand campaigns.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Host of The Need to Fail Podcast (156 Episodes)One of Vulture's BEST COMEDY PODCASTS OF 2018

Los Angeles, California, United States

- Pitched, sold, outlined, and co-wrote an original screenplay with my wife.- Applied studio notes and delivered two rewrites ahead of schedule.

New York City Metropolitan Area

Sold over 100 Touring Company shows and workshops to Mid-Atlantic colleges and corporations

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Industrial Engineering

Activities and Societies: Delta Tau Delta, Baseball

Ux Immersion + Specialization, Ux/Ui Design + Research

Activities and Societies: UX Design; Storytelling; User Research/Interviews; User Personas/Flows; Information Architecture; Wireframing.