Chris Diming, Phd Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, New York, United States

In collaboration with a diverse team, I lead and execute workplace experience research and strategy for Meta's internal workplace design and research group. My focus areas include driving applied research (qualitative and mixed-methods) from end-to-end, team management, and thought leadership creation.I bring my anthropological perspective across all client engagements, thereby contributing people-centered strategic insights that facilitate and empower employees in their day-to-day lives, whether at the office, hybrid, or remote.

Menlo Park, California, United States

I lead and execute workplace research for the client's internal workplace design team in collaboration with furniture planners, designers, and other strategists. All research projects are geared towards understanding the people who use the workplace and discovering the future of work. Responsibilities include designing research methods, executing methods, and translating findings into actionable insights. I also conduct ongoing secondary research to build the client's knowledge base and maintain a client-facing research repository. Research methods include ethnographic observations, interviews, surveys, focus groups, and utilization studies. Through my work, I have gained additional expertise in project management and navigating complex organizational environments.

Chesterfield County, Virginia, United States

Clients via The Curve AI: JLL - Global commercial real estate organization

Greater Richmond Region

Consultant with expertise in applied anthropology, design research, and a passion for improving the human experience of the built environment. Other interests include qualitative UX research, consumer research, and mixed-methods approaches.Clients: FacilityQuest workplace management software company.(Via The Curve AI) Global commercial real estate organizationMember of the HireWisdom network and collaborating with The Curve AI consultancy as Head of Design Research and Strategic Consulting. Speaking in podcasts like iOffice’s ‘Workplace Innovators Livestream’ and Open Sourced Workplace.Contributor to the Work&Place Journal, IN Magazine, and Workplace Insight.Volunteer on Workplace Evolutionaries' membership and leadership committees.

London, United Kingdom

Led research projects across Javelyn’s portfolio of start-ups (Ognio, Lyfeline, Pidge, and Authentify) and built an advisory board of academic and industry experts for building web applications.• Led a user research project in four London neighborhoods that generated invaluable insights on residents’ potential needs, pain points, and desires as Ognio users, as well as the neighborhood experience and degrees of trust. User voices were advocated for and communicated to the design team through workshops and research reports.• Recruited and led teams of up to 7 contributors in primary and secondary research projects that generated essential insights for application and business development. The projects included multiple two-week interview sprints, market research survey development, remote interviewing, semi-structured interviewing, journey mapping, and participant observation. Findings were disseminated to the design and creative teams via presentations, reports, and workshops. • Led the development of seven deep-dive white papers on key concepts for marketing and designing an application for improving social cohesion in neighborhoods and cities.• Collaborated with research team on an online ethnographic market research project to assess social networking and sharing economy needs, desires, habits, and pain points for potential users in Dubai of the minimum viable product (MVP) for Ognio. • Collaborated with design and creative teams on concept design and prototypes for Ognio MVP and external presentations. Evangelized the importance of user experience research and human-centered design to team members and business stakeholders.• Designed and delivered presentations on Ognio to external parties and recruited an advisory board of academic and industry experts in areas such as social network analysis, user experience, people-centered design, gamification, and wellbeing to optimize business model and usability for Ognio and other applications

Durham, United Kingdom

Generated leads for sales clients through intensive telemarketing.• Attained a record of meeting and exceeding campaign goals, leading to client satisfaction on multiple occasions.• Carried out lead generation alongside teams of fellow telemarketers.• Identified potential contacts through prior internet research and utilization of CRM databases.• Entered notes data from conversations into specific database platforms, including Salesforce.

Durham, United Kingdom

Designed and executed mixed-methods research project at every stage including initial design, data collection in developing nation field conditions, data analysis, and report writing.• The project explored political mobilization, social networks, and behaviors in the public spaces of Pristina, Kosovo.• Ethnographic fieldwork (from June 2014 to July 2015 in Pristina, Kosovo) consisted of 5 stages: o 1) 3 months of participant observation in public spaceso 2) 4 months of participant observation, quantitative Social Network Analysis, and semi-structured interviewingo 3) An additional 4 months of semi-structured interviewing, participant observation, and Social Network Analysiso 4) A stage of “free lists” and another of “card sorts” (cultural domain analysis) designed to uncover concepts of social space, along with Social Network Analysis and participant observation o 5) A brief series of unstructured interviews with political activists, as well as participant observation.• The research project resulted in 61 semi-structured interviews, 10 unstructured interviews, 21 free lists, and 22 card sorts, as well as notes from participant observation and network diagrams from Social Network Analysis.• Oversaw all logistics for the project, including budgeting, travel, equipment, and recruitment of respondents.

Durham, United Kingdom

I led tutorial seminars for the following modules: Introduction to Anthropological Theory and Methods (IATM), Political and Economic Organisation (PEO), Dissertation, and a seminar on giving presentations for the Our Life in Nature module I conducted a guest lecture on managing research risks for IATM in Michaelmas (Autumn) 2016. I also marked formative and summative assignments for IATM and PEO from 2015 to 2016.

Durham, United Kingdom

I planned and executed two Postgraduate Volunteer Days, developed connections between SVO and Durham's postgraduate community and identified potential volunteering projects for postgraduates. I also designed, distributed and analysed a questionnaire for postgraduates on their attitudes towards volunteering.

Richmond, Virginia Area

I recruited, trained and managed student volunteers and interns for actions such as petition drives, phone-banks and rallies as part of the campaign against Dominion Virginia Power's energy practices. I also coordinated with student environmental organisations on Virginia campuses in order to boost their capacity to participate in the Dominion campaign and other climate actions.

Newport News, Va

I made a high volume of voter contacts in the Newport News region's precincts, contributing to the campaign's close victory there. I also recruited and managed volunteers and interns, and I coordinated with downballot campaigns to maximize efficiency and meet GOTV goals.

Arlington, Va

I worked as part of the field team to hit daily direct voter contact goals from June until the August primary. As part of this effort, I recruited volunteers and entered data using the VAN voter contact database.

Hampton Roads, Virginia

Newport News, Va

Richmond, Virginia

Richmond, Va

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Social Anthropology

Entitled “From the Café We Went to War”: Political Manoeuvring and Protest in Pristina's Public Spaces", my dissertation discusses how.

Master'S Degree, Defence, Development And Diplomacy

Activities and Societies: President-St. Chad's College Middle Common Room

B.A., Political Science

Activities and Societies: Tau Delta Phi, American Civil Liberties Union, Students for Barack Obama, Young Democrats, Pi Sigma Alpha