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El Paso, Texas

Owned and delivered 20 year forecast of monthly distributed generation energy and power generation. Transitioned workflow from a collection of unorganized excel workbooks to an R Markdown project.Conducting interviews to document and analyze internal customer requirements, current deliverables and associated workflows.Authored a report on Climate Change's impact on the company's infrastructure. This report utilized my background in economics, information visualization, and electrical… Show more Owned and delivered 20 year forecast of monthly distributed generation energy and power generation. Transitioned workflow from a collection of unorganized excel workbooks to an R Markdown project.Conducting interviews to document and analyze internal customer requirements, current deliverables and associated workflows.Authored a report on Climate Change's impact on the company's infrastructure. This report utilized my background in economics, information visualization, and electrical engineering.Took initiative to improve Load Research reports processes by coding SAS scripts and designing a PowerBI dashboard to save the department 400 annual man hours.Demonstrated corporate wide value by leading collaboration across internal departments to identify discrepancies between two previously siloed databases to improve accuracy of a distributed generation monthly report for Executive Leadership. Show less

El Paso, Texas, United States

Hunt Institute for Global CompetitivenessAuthored a proposal to win a Department Homeland Security research contract. The contract value was one of the top five wins for the Institute.Consultant, Paso Del Norte Health FoundationDelivered SWOT analysis findings and market research estimates for use in a business plan for a grantee of the Paso Del Norte Health Foundation.Estimated market size for client using the statistical language R and Foundation Center website.

Nyc Metro

• Conceptualized future products by updating investor personas based on latest behavioral finance research and accounting for technology advancements in behavioral change, robotics, and predictive analytics.• Conducted two-month ethnographic study to identify organizational process changes to improve worker morale• Conducted over 50+ testing sessions, including flagship products• Prioritized findings based on severity, frequency, business impact and scope• Documented and… Show more • Conceptualized future products by updating investor personas based on latest behavioral finance research and accounting for technology advancements in behavioral change, robotics, and predictive analytics.• Conducted two-month ethnographic study to identify organizational process changes to improve worker morale• Conducted over 50+ testing sessions, including flagship products• Prioritized findings based on severity, frequency, business impact and scope• Documented and presented findings to UI team and project stakeholders• Developed internal organizational talent through mentoring employees on Usability Testing to address staffing shortages• Conducted contextual inquiries to gain an understanding of users and their work goals • Performed heuristic analysis and competitive product analysis Show less

Nyc Metro

Lead the vision, strategy, and execution of the user experience efforts for customer-facing online technologies. Worked closely with senior-level executives to support effective product strategy and act as an end-user advocate. Provided innovative, customer-centric information and design recommendations that contribute to an enhanced end-user experience.

• Consult customer on usability design of enterprise, thin-client, JavaScript applications that met 300+ contract requirements.• Document over 50 design recommendations that addressed “low-hanging fruit” software issues and provide “Quick Wins” for development teams based on heuristic evaluations.• Generate requirements for Interface Designs to support traceability of 200+ requirements for Test and Verification purposes.• Improve Requirements Capture in Agile Development Environment… Show more • Consult customer on usability design of enterprise, thin-client, JavaScript applications that met 300+ contract requirements.• Document over 50 design recommendations that addressed “low-hanging fruit” software issues and provide “Quick Wins” for development teams based on heuristic evaluations.• Generate requirements for Interface Designs to support traceability of 200+ requirements for Test and Verification purposes.• Improve Requirements Capture in Agile Development Environment by utilizing mockups. Show less

Deputy Principal Investigator, Research and Development • Guide cooperative research with University of Maryland Human Computer Interaction Laboratory to explore state of the art capabilities in Information Visualization and Information Analytics. A functional demo was produced that became a technical discriminator for a related proposal and an LM win.R&D Analyst, Business Operations • Implement and document Process Improvements for R&D portfolio management tasks which… Show more Deputy Principal Investigator, Research and Development • Guide cooperative research with University of Maryland Human Computer Interaction Laboratory to explore state of the art capabilities in Information Visualization and Information Analytics. A functional demo was produced that became a technical discriminator for a related proposal and an LM win.R&D Analyst, Business Operations • Implement and document Process Improvements for R&D portfolio management tasks which allowed more time to evaluate the soundness and importance of IRAD missions to current business pursuits and future proposals.R&D Analyst, Business Operations • Facilitated the execution of two nation-wide internal Innovation competitions two tap into research ideas from employees that could have otherwise been stalled by middle management.System Engineer, R&D Project • Assess needs of end users by developing “Day in the Life of” scenarios for use in demos. As a result of the successful demos, the IRAD proved to be a technical discriminator for the related proposal and led to a LM win. Show less

Master Of Science - Ms, Human Factors In Information Design

Courses: Foundations in Human Factors, Testing and Assessment Programs, Advanced User Interface Design, Ethnography of Work for Design.

Master Of Science - Ms, Economics And Data Science

Courses: Advanced Data Mining, Introduction to Data Mining, Statistical Programming, Econometric Forecasting, Applied Econometrics.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Magna Cum Laude