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Washington D.C. Metro Area

Leading and supporting the UX Design/Research team members within Bloomberg Industry Group. Our 3 main product areas are Government, Law, & Tax.

Buy-side product suite includes portfolio management, decision support, analytic, trade, and compliance tools (in Bloomberg-speak: PORT, AIM, Index, Funds, Private Equity).

Woodbridge, Nj

Tasks: Research needs of doctors seeking Rx indications, contraindications, & interactions. Design web portal for patients, doctors, and medical staff to learn about Rx drug. Collaborate with web and visual design teams to realize conceptual mockups.Background: MISI is a design agency that bids for all kinds of design work. While there, my time was primarily spent on projects that MISI had successfully won from large pharmaceutical companies.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Tasks: Research the workflow of pathologists. Design a desktop tool that allows non-collocated pathologists to collaborate over digitized images in order to generate a diagnosis.Background: Digital pathology has numerous potential benefits, some of which include: improving the quality of patient care, creating opportunities for learning, and enhancing pathologists’ work experience. Up to this point, digital pathology has been concerned primarily with slide scanning and viewing. No one has yet solved how digitized pathology will influence collaboration between pathologists.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Tasks: Envision the role of technology in supporting the generation of informal connections between coworkers who aren't co-located.Background: The 2009 Microsoft design challenge explores new ways of working. Today, fewer and fewer people have jobs that involve going to an office, working fulltime, for five or more years in the same company, with a team that also works in their hallway; yet many of our productivity tools and processes were designed when this was the norm. How can our tools and services support new ways of working?

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Tasks: Envision the advanced medical home. Research the life changes necessitated by chronic illness.Background: “In a medical home model, primary care clinicians and allied professionals provide conventional diagnostic and therapeutic services, as well as coordination of care for patients that require services not available in primary care settings. The primary care clinicians serve as advocates for patients and are paid to coordinate their care, thus averting unnecessary tests and procedures, hospital admissions, and avoidable complications.” - Paul H. Keckley, PhD(in collaboration with the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation & Design Continuum, Inc.)

Continuing Education (Non-Degree)

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