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New York, New York, Us

New York, New York, Us

Creating custom web solutions from design to implementation.

Mountain View, Wy, Us

Mental health AI app

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Facebook Marketplace Core Experience/Feed- Increased product listing messaging by 7% by launching an offer negotiations feature with 2% of all users using the feature.- Launched and built Marketplace Discussions (now branded as Ask in Marketplace) from scratch, allowing people within a neighborhood to freeform post asks and services.- Launched listing availability filter, which enabled seller features such as price research during listing creation. The availability filter was used more than 2/3 of all Marketplace search filters since launch.- Launched gift card listings as part of the rapid Covid response effort to help local restaurants reach users on Facebook.- Built user trust by simplifying complex user experiences on the product details page. Unified the design across different types of listings. Shipped as a collection of nine experiments resulting in a 1.7% lift in ads impressions.- Partnered with UX Research to launch an adaptable survey unit within Marketplace feed used to produce multiple research reports on user sentiment and feed relevance.- Decreased user failure rates by 10% within Facebook Save and Collections.- Proposed tests and shipped learnings on seller discrimination and consumer intent.Recruiting Products Employee and Candidate Engagement- Partnered with the Candidate Channels team to enable employee referrals within Workplace for a seamless experience during company wide referral campaigns. Referrals was previously exclusively hosted on a separate internal tools site. - Launched Workplace recruiting group compliance detection to ensure candidate privacy protection.- Launched Recruiting Journey within Workplace to increase employee engagement and awareness of the different ways they can contribute to recruiting.Additional roles:- Women in Facebook App Commerce Lead- Annual Women in Eng Summit organizer- Intern Director- Intern Manager- New Hire Orientation Presenter- New Hire Bootcamp Mentor and Mentor Coach

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Produced the finale show of Pittsburgh Fashion Week 2018, which was preceded by The Social and The Panel. Main responsibilities included coordinating models, drafting stage layout and show logistics, and stage managing. Also organized RSVPs for The Social on the side. https://www.pghfw.com/

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Worked with Afsaneh Doryab in the Ubiquitous Computing Lab within the Human Computer Interaction Institute. Paper submitted to Ubicomp: ACM Conference.Published in:· JournalProceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous TechnologiesVolume 3 Issue 1, March 2019 Article No. 8 https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3314395

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

Led a board of 50 people and organization of 200 people to produce a $55,000 sold out show of 1200 people. Increased event responses by 100% and event revenue by 40% from previous years. Secured first time partnerships and sponsorships with Carnegie Museum of Art, Art Institute, Style412, West Virginia University. Introduced student designer grants, a timeline of Lunar Gala lunargala.org/timeline, Style412 industry professional to student designer workshop, pre-show VIP Lounge experience, post-show gallery at the Great Hall, and display at the Carnegie Museum of Art. Redesigned pre-show experience and brought in record high student and Pittsburgh community participation.https://www.facebook.com/events/859186410897394/

Messenger Visual Messaging TeamWorked on the Messenger Visual Messaging team.Integrated augmented reality effects including face filters and overall image filters to images post capture.Integrated new media editor for all media editing in the app.

Frontend Ads Delivery TeamWorked on the Instagram Frontend Ad Delivery team.Improved ad metrics by adding ad sharing and converting user interest to ad actions.Created a in-app Android debugging tool for quicker and immediate access of logged analytics and metrics, previously accessible only through desktop while device is connected.

Built proximity-based conference networking app, Binder, from scratch. Binder encourages digital contact sharing by allowing users to more easily exchange contact information at large events by presenting a deck of filtered contact cards based on how likely two people have talked. Likeliness is determined by number of bluetooth pings from each phone.