Mary Tucker, Phd Email & Phone Number

Chapel Hill, Nc, Us

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

* Lead researcher for 1000+ employee global B2B cybersecurity company, reporting to Sr Director of UX. * Built and scaled the research function as the first UX researcher in the company’s 20-year history. * Lead generative/foundational, tactical, and evaluative research for 10+ product portfolio, working across diverse areas of the business (UX Design, Product Development, Growth, Marketing, Ad/Creative Testing, Customer Success) and collaborating with related teams around the globe. * Recognized with company “Drive Innovation” award for fueling the development of multiple new tools and enhancements and bringing a user-centric focus to product and marketing efforts.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Partnered with collaborative team of researchers, designers, developers, and practitioners to build, test, and improve CourseKata, an online statistics textbook and research platform funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. We operated as a non-profit startup, leveraging design-thinking, improvement science, and UX research methodologies along with agile development practices to iteratively improve and grow. Our efforts supported hundreds of enhancements and bug fixes, more than 4 version releases, and drove user base expansion to institutions around the world.

Greater Los Angeles Area

PhD in Developmental Psychology with a minor in Quantitative Psychology. My research addressed the psychological and contextual factors that influence teaching and learning, the design of learning environments in STEM domains, and the application of technology and data analytics to understand and improve teaching and learning processes.

Los Angeles, Ca

Synthesized complex concepts for statistics, psychology, and research methods courses, presenting content clearly and effectively, using research-informed instructional methods to facilitate understanding and engagement.

Stanford, California, United States

Planned and conducted research using surveys, behavioral tasks, and neuroimaging methods to investigate human strategy selection and motivated decision-making. As part of this work, I programmed surveys and experimental stimuli (Qualtrics, Python), recruited and managed participants, and collected data for lab and field-based studies.

San Francisco Bay Area

I led research, curriculum development, and customer success for educational technology startup, Sokikom (formerly Virtual Learning Technologies). In this role, I conducted generative and evaluative research to help develop, launch, and improve digital math learning games for elementary aged students, including a teaching tool to help instructors incorporate our games into classroom instruction.

Newark, Nj

Developed and taught a rigorous 7th and 8th grade math curriculum to support students at tuition-free public charter school. My efforts led to increased average growth on the math Measure of Academic Progress by 2 years.

Mountain Vista Community School, Colorado Springs, Co

Managed caseload of 40 students in kindergarten through eighth grade, working closely with teachers, parents, administrators, and educational service providers to understand students' needs and ensure those needs were met. In this role, I collected and analyzed student data to design and deliver instruction, increasing reading levels an average of 1.5 years.

Duke University, Durham, Nc

Designed and executed an end-to-end individual research project using computerized text analysis to compare the linguistic content of autobiographical memories of participants with and without Post traumatic Stress Disorder. I presented findings from this research at the 2010 North Carolina Cognition conference.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Psychology

Major: Developmental Psychology Minor: Quantitative Psychology

Master Of Arts - Ma, Psychology

Bachelor Of Arts: Psychology, Minor: Visual Art, Minor: Visual And Media Studies

Graduation with Distinction