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Washington, DC, US

Washington, DC, US

Champaign, Illinois, United States

• Engaged with key stakeholders at Foster Nation through meetings, collaborating with a team of developers and designers to gather requirements and ensure alignment on the creation of a gift donation web portal for.
• Contributed to product design and frontend development processes by conducting usability testing and accessibility reviews, providing design critiques, and implementing features in React.js
• Conducted user research through research interviews to understand the needs of foster youth, informing design and development decisions to ensure the web portal met user needs effectively

Champaign, Illinois, United States

• Collaborates on a cross-functional Agile team to adapt a professional chemistry tool for education by conducting rigorous testing and iterating Figma designs based on stakeholder feedback
• Actively engages with educators and students through interviews and surveys to gather valuable feedback and insights, ensuring the product development aligns with its intended educational goals

Mclean, Virginia, United States

• Utilizes NTLK and spaCy libraries to create a Flask API that identifies non-inclusive language, suggesting better alternatives, and promoting diversity by enhancing company culture
• Develops an internal Chrome extension tool using React.js and TypeScript, integrating with the API to highlight non-inclusive terms and providing hover-activated suggestions
• Creates comprehensive unit tests for the frontend extension with Jest and React Testing Library, and for the backend API using Pytest, achieving 80% total test coverage
• Deploys applications using AWS Lambda, ensuring seamless integration and scalability

Champaign, Illinois, United States

• Reimagined Depop, an online fashion marketplace, to focus on giving sellers greater ease when listing items, while also increasing personalization for buyers
• Conducted user research, synthesized findings, and ultimately designed 80+ high-fidelity and low-fidelity mockups

• Creating digital experiences for projects like Travel Deeply, a search engine for volunteer opportunities, and Discern This, a podcast dissecting today’s political climate Prototyping landing and search pages alongside.

Dulles, Virginia, United States

• Exceeded expected sales goals through engaging with customer, suggestive selling, and sharing product knowledge
• Efficiently processed payments and assisted with inventory, including receiving and stocking merchandise
• Communicated with customers about ongoing sales promotions and new items while responding to customer needs

• Developed Java curriculum involving concepts of basic data structures, class design, inheritance, and recursion
• Led team of other instructors in teaching bi-weekly classes of 15+ students, culminated in 100+ service hours and receiving the President’s Volunteer Service Award

• Shadowed experts in the fields of IoT, Cybersecurity, DevNet, and Meraki, receiving certification in Cybersecurity
• Created and presented a solution to reduce intake times at general practitioners’ offices with a team of other students

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science And Advertising, 4.0

Activities and societies: Design Innovation, American Advertising Federation, Hack4Impact Recognitions: George Will Scholarship, Dean's.

4.413

Activities and Societies: TJTV News, Future Business Leaders of America