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Seattle, WA, US

• Design user-focused solutions aligned with company goals and vision in collaboration with stakeholders
• Maintain design system, style guides, and pattern libraries for product consistency
• Manage full product development cycle from research to launch with close collaboration with engineering team
• Develop and implement project plans, monitor progress, and adjust deliverables as needed for successful completion
• Prioritize and manage product backlog, making trade-off decisions for user, business, and engineering needs
• Analyze product performance using data to inform decision-making for product direction and priorities

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Craft internal facing solutions that enable the workforce. I’ve worked on products regarding team collaboration, agile education, digital transformation, tool procurement, operations, hybrid cloud services, design.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to rebuild and align an existing design system with company design strategy, including defining an internal sub-brand
• Conducted UI audit and recommended design components to ensure consistency across high-traffic intranet sites
• Defined the product roadmap and facilitated multiple workshops with product owner

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Planned and facilitated project kickoff and branding workshops
• Conducted 40 qualitative research interviews, synthesized findings and presented project personas to leadership
• Conducted comparative analysis on design languages and informed adoption strategy for w3DS team
• Performed usability testing and reported results to team prior to implementation

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Led and mentored a team of 6 designers and 2 developers
• Provided guidance on business etiquette, feedback on design quality, and effective communication of design decisions to stakeholders

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Specialized in enterprise design thinking workshop planning and facilitation. Created customized IBM Enterprise Design Thinking workshops for various product teams
• Facilitated Google Design Sprint workshop for Agile transformation team

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Collaborated cross-functionally to build a modern tool chain and provisioning solution for IBM product teams, working closely with 3rd party vendor design and engineering teams
• Designed wireframes, user flows, site maps, and prototypes for multiple areas of the product, based on collaboration with developers, researchers, product owners, and designers
• Conducted user research and usability testing to validate design decisions and improve the user experience

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Collaborate with product team to build a sensor-based retail experience for shoppers when on site at a brick and mortar location
• Created wireframes, user flows, site maps and prototypes
• Presented the final project to project stakeholders and other studio members

Houston, TX, US

• Worked with the Pediatric Immunology department scientists to create 3D printing program. Enabling scientists to view structures of natural killer cells reacting to agents from different perspectives. Created process.
• Installed and set up 3D printer space
• Assessed client objectives, created project plan and presented to client
• Evaluate available software platforms, advise client about software options & allocation
• Created process and documentation for transferring high resolution microscope output data into format readable by 3D printer software
• Conducted relentless printing experimentation to reach desired print results

Kingsport, Tennessee, US

• Selected for internship due to my innovative use of newly patented materials. Worked with the Polymer Innovations group to further new product use though Eastman’s Stage-Gate process for new products.
• Designed new use from product specifications provided by Eastman Chemical Co.
• Developed the project through Stage-Gate 1
• Worked with others to build full scale prototype
• Presented product sales pitch for a major retailer to managers
• Interfaced with engineering, marketing and management groups

Chapel Hill, NC, US

Assisted research laboratory & Drug Screening Program to maintain an orderly and clean environment and make consumables readily available for the researchers. Organized inventory of chemicals and drug-like compounds, created an Excel-based inventory for web access.

Ba, Industrial Design

Industrial Design & Design For Sustainability