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New York, NY, US

New York, New York, United States

New York, New York, United States

Remote

• Owned all product design work necessary to improve all 12 products of XQ Message as the sole product and visual designer of the company, from pixel to big picture.
• Executed a comprehensive UX design audit across all products, creating key UX value metrics and designing a grading system in order to cross-compare and prioritize the design changes needed for each product; presented.
• Communicated directly with a seven-person development team, explaining key design points in wireframes for both design changes to existing products and newly developed products.
• Developed and shipped two new products for XQ Message, from initial conceptualization and product metrics all the way to market.

Remote

• Planned and executed four weeks of summer camp to create an inclusive, hands-on environment for 120 low-income middle schoolers to learn about engineering principles and careers.
• Developed curriculum and hands-on activities for eight different fields of engineering and facilitated building activities with campers, teaching engineering principles and troubleshooting difficulties for middle.
• Trained and onboarded 24 staff members by hosting virtual workshops that outlined expectations and detailed how to create a safe space for middle school campers and staff.

Remote

• Organized DOWA's second webinar, facilitating communication between three guest speakers and an in-company host, planning and executing all Zoom webinar functions to engage the audience, and increasing attendees by 100%.
• Attended daily meetings with the CEO, documented all ideas for growth, and translated them into tangible action items.
• Transferred team onto Notion and created an organized hub for information storage in order to improve cross-team communication.

• Designed wireframes on Figma of a visually pleasing, brand consistent website layout with considerations for usability and intuitive navigation.
• Transformed designs into website pages using HTML/CSS/JavaScript to build a website from scratch, developing a responsive design format across all media screens and using parallax scrolling and Bootstrap.
• Wrote content for the website that captures the essence of the organization and illustrates the process of projects in order to launch the outward-facing platform for Invention Corps, which interacts with both.

Berkeley, California

• Directed an organization of 40 members in projects-based, collaborative design teams with an emphasis on creating tangible deliverables in the form of physical prototypes.
• Oversaw a team of seven executive board members to form and maintain 20 diverse partnerships with non-profit organizations, start-ups, and Berkeley professors and to host educational campus-wide design events and.

Berkeley, CA

• Part of the founding class; applied a change model canvas and utilized design thinking to create an organization by understanding each team member.
• Developed the entire executive structure and formed each role of the operations of the club.
• Managed six different project teams of 5-6 multidisciplinary design consultants each to ensure that every group produced tangible deliverables for an end-of-semester showcase of 100+ attendees from Berkeley's design.

Berkeley, California

• Managed Project Alz You Need, using Gantt charts, Agile, and Kanban to designate the timeline of creating an online community for caregivers to connect and share practical solutions to day-to-day problems they face.
• Worked on a project sponsored by Moffitt Library, University Health Services, and the Student Tech Fund to find tangible ways to promote inclusivity and community, culminating in the Mindfulness at Moffitt program to.
• Partnered with Reimagine Lab and Blue Shield of California Foundation to promote healthy relationships for a target audience of 11-14-year-olds by creating a collaborative video game concept and wireframe flows using.

Berkeley, California

• Advised students regarding minor requirements and course planning while monitoring their individual progress to ensure their successful completion of the minor.
• Assisted over 30 students with selecting an individualized practice experience that addresses poverty and inequality, providing one-on-one personalized advising sessions.
• Led 5 minor information sessions with presentations to clearly communicate the structure, requirements, and unique nuances of the minor to prospective students.

Accra, Ghana

• Sourced local materials and researched manufacturing capabilities with goals of creating 200 devices by July 2019 and partnered with Johnson & Johnson to integrate the device into the national midwifery curriculum.
• Utilized Solidworks to create 3D-modeled prototypes of device designs; created part-by-part laser cutting files on Adobe Illustrator; and physically fabricated rapid prototypes of varying fidelities using cardboard.
• Improved usability based on user feedback, decreased production cost by 67%, consolidated instructive mechanisms, and improved software functionality to create a laser-cut deliverable utilizing MSP430 that was.

Berkeley, CA

• Led a team of six undergraduate students through the design process to create a visual medical trainer that teaches Ghanaian midwives how to diagnose cervical cancer.
• Over six weeks, improved usability based on user feedback from Ghana, decreased production cost by 67%, consolidated instructive mechanisms, and improved functionality of software.
• The final laser-cut deliverable with MSP430 and storage capacity was presented at the WHO Global Forum for Medical Devices in June 2017.