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Chicago, IL, US

• Manage design, development, optimization, and maintenance of the annual CRC website, resulting in a 20% faster page load time and increased SEO performance.
• Have weekly meetings with the team and make iterations based on feedback received.
• Help lead, create and drive other missions centering around sustainability.

• Conduct research to understand visitors' needs, preferences, pain points, and behaviors.
• Iterate the company's website based on research insights while ensuring designs are accessible to users of all abilities, following best practices for web and mobile accessibility.
• Provide creative solutions to company's clients.

Brooklyn, New York, United States

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Led and managed the Web team to design and develop the official site for NYU-ITP and conducted weekly accessibility audits for all department’s websites, eliminated over 8,000 digital accessibility issues within Q1 2024.
• Meet with NYU IT to support digital accessibility implementation.
• Help manage cross-departmental events at NYU and distribute tasks across the team.
• Develop progress reports and create future plans to ensure the success of each project.

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Designed user flows and prototypes for NYU's Social Hub, improving user satisfaction by 30%.
• Discover students' needs & pain points by conducting users' research, interviews, and surveys.
• Build wireframes & prototypes and implement those designs into dynamic web applications.
• Participate in related IT projects such as the Help Site.

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Contribute to Google's sustainability efforts by exploring creative solutions for upcycling used Google Pixels.
• Tasks involved design, application/web development, presentations, and research around interfaces for serial communications.

Brooklyn, New York, United States

• Managed a seamless live stream production for a two-day exhibition and received more than 1.5K views on YouTube.
• Coordinated the interviewing and broadcasting of over 150 projects for viewers worldwide.
• Ensured all programs were prepared prior to the live stream.

New York, United States

• Conceptualize, design, test and launch new digital products such as the Central Park Scavenger Hunt app and other voice-integrated applications based on research data collected.
• Enhance brands' digital experience using AI and XR technologies.
• Led the design of weekly newsletter for clients.

New York, New York, United States

• Led user testing with 50+ participants, boosting user adoption by 58% and achieving a 4.7-star App Store rating.
• Helped Daze achieve product-market fit and succeed on NYU's campus and beyond.
• Gathered valuable user feedback and make recommendations for product change.
• Ideated and created new methods of outreach.

Bachelor'S Degree, Interactive Media; Technology, Management, And Design (Hons), 3.98/4.0, Summa Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: UNICEF, Tisch Arts Rep, David Payne-Carter Award Committee, Student Advisory Council, Google Developer Student.

Advanced Regents Diploma With Honors, 4.0/4.0, Valedictorian

Activities and Societies: National Honor Society (NHS), Hudson River Community Sailing (HRCS), Video Game Club (VGC)Commencement Speaker.