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College Station, Texas, United States

- Designs and develops the digital experience of candidate portal to provide participants with a seamless, interactive program.- Leads a four-person team in weekly collaborative, brainstorming sessions to streamline the development process, encourage problem-solving, and generate creative design solutions.- Conducts user research such as interviews and usability tests to gather insights and inform design decisions of prototypes.

College Station, Texas, United States

Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Java course.- Collaborated with a team of 10 TAs to provide instruction and guidance for over 200 students through office hours and labs.- Received an overall 4.7/5 rating from course evaluation/feedback form and had over 80% of students earn an A.- Dedicated 3-4 hours a week to holding office hours and assessing over 200 students’ assignments.

College Station, Texas, United States

Research Assistant for Human Bio-Behavioral Signals (HUBBS) Lab. Aimed to build an AI model that can detect microaggressions toward marginalized groups, such as women in STEM.- Collected quantitative and qualitative data in the form of surveys, interviews, and observation from participants of group problem-solving sessions, each group consisting of either an even number of male to female students or predominately male students.- Developed a procedure to efficiently form and schedule teams based on over 200 participants’ screening results.

Reseach Assistant for Cognition and Neuroscience Lab. Aimed to study the relationship between emotion and impulsivity through digital tasks and self-survey questionnaires.- Oversaw experiment procedure for over 140 participants throughout study.- Utilized a Galvanic Skin Response reader and an EEG recorder to collect participant data.- Performed multiple regression analysis of collected quantitative data using R statistical software.

Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Psychology course- Worked with my co-TA to provide 4 extensive review sessions that fostered a positive learning environment and adequately prepared students for upcoming exams.- Dedicated 3-4 hours a week to holding office hours and assessing over 100 students’ assignments.

Westminster, Colorado, United States

- Authored a revamped job description template and corresponding SOP document for about 100 job titles in order to serve the HR/recruiting departments’ hiring needs as well as maintain compliance with Quality standards.- Met frequently with the directors of each engineering department to inform the structure and procedure of completing the job description template in order to maintain consistency between departments.- Implemented a nationwide paid sick leave policy based on research done on current state sick leave laws and best practices.- Oversaw the administration and maintenance of a new, consolidated SharePoint employee records database, ensuring a smooth merge of personnel files from three HR teams based across the country.- Participated in the JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion) committee to promote a welcoming culture in the workplace.

College Station, Texas, United States

- Ranked among the top 5 for the most subscriptions out of 90 brand ambassadors for the 2022-2023 school year.- Gained over 14,000 views and over 880 content interactions on Instagram Reel and Tiktok promoting Bartleby+.- Established and maintained partnership opportunities with over 10 on-campus clubs and organizations that aim to encourage learning and academic success.