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Providing insightful, engaging, personalized educational introductions to allyship and the LGBTQIA+ community. I conduct interactive lectures with employee groups introducing them to vocabulary and best practices for allyship in and out of professional environments, and facilitate brave conversations expanding perspectives on gender and the human condition.

Denver, Colorado, United States

Consulting and advising in the product lifecycle of different industries, with focuses on human-centered inclusive design, change management, requirements gathering, accessibility, and business analysis.- Discovery activities such as workshops, user interviews, data analysis, comparative and competitive analysis, vendor selection, and requirements facilitation- Agile project management, scrum master, product owner responsibilities such as backlog generation and refinement, estimation, planning- Release and live ops support including rollout strategy, customer & data migration, informational design and training, adoption support, and change management processes- Accessibility, inclusive design, and DEIB initiatives including recruitment, mentorship, retention, company policy, and education facilitation[Departed in company-wide layoff]

Denver Metropolitan Area

Enabling and uplifting a talented team of UIUX designers, product designers, and UX researchers to create a revolutionary software update in dialysis services.- Kanban board management, including optimization of processes and prioritization- Facilitation between product, development, and designers- Meeting and documentation organization, including capturing processes, improving information architecture, conducting retrospectives, and synthesizing action items into plans- Process improvement including streamlining workflows and capturing documentation

Austin, Texas Area

Team-focused project manager/scrum master hybrid in an Agile software development studio in transit, defense contract, game-based training, mobile app development, and internal systems. - Managing cross-functional team in implementing a company-wide design language system and shift to user-centered design culture, including educational center for process and user research- Backlog generation and refinement, scope management- Scrum rituals such as planning, retrospectives, sprint reviews, and daily team scrums- Process implementation and improvement on internal team scale as model for company initiative- Content creation and editing for tone and voice of new design system website- Voice on website infrastructure decisions and implementation process approval- Project milestone and deliverable tracking, requirements gathering, stakeholder progress reporting- Internal customer request management and artifact/asset exchanges[Departed in company-wide layoff]

Austin, Tx

- Shipped revival of decade-old platform, completing 24 month R&D cycle- Renewed business model and product as a modern SaaS product- Managed 15-30 people across multiple cross-discipline Agile/Scrum teams- Managed budget, scope, schedule, resource plans- Reviewed roadmap and requirements with product owner- Ran daily, weekly, and monthly meetings and scrums, reported progress to stakeholders- Coordinated migration of existing customers to new platform- Improved team engagement and satisfaction by writing, dispatching, curating, and acting on action items from retrospectives at biweekly, quarterly, and annual intervals

Austin, Texas Area

- Support for multiple DoD/DARPA-funded training exercises- UX research and design of SaaS exercise support product- Content research/creation for exercises, including social media analysis

- Blog and website copy- Interviewing and interview transcription- Social media analytics and marketing- Short and longform journalism for digital/print/broadcast mediums- Video/audio editing and spot/ad production- Creative direction for live action roleplay scenarios and events- Search engine optimizationWork including:- Comix-quest.com- The Reader (Omaha, NE)- AllGeekToMe.net- Forge Magazine/ The Oracle/ Spirit Magazine (Arkadelphia, AR)- “In Danger” (Expedition Art, Inc.)

Arkadelphia, Arkansas, United States

- Revived college radio station programming to match current audiences- Revitalized community engagement, including contests and events- Restructured documentation and scheduling to match FCC guidelines- Managed staff and practicum students/DJs, including onboarding new talent each semester

Henderson State University

- Scheduled, conducted, transcribed interviews- Published and edited articles for print and online newspaper publication

Henderson State University

- Tutored fellow students in reading comprehension, grammar and usage, creative and academic writing- Aided students in standardized test preparation, including Praxis I- Served as peer advisor for fellow studentsOther subjects tutored in the past: astronomy, math for liberal arts, reading education, digital skills/Adobe Illustrator.

Oversees student DJ training and shows, helps maintain positive and functional work environment, reviews all incoming music and programs to be uploaded, uploads and maintains all music, public programming, and station clocks/logs, maintains schedules and public file as well as oversees obeying FCC regulations .

Omaha

Scheduled, conducted, and transcribed interviews. Wrote articles, reported on scene, and aided in copyediting/formatting the publication. Managed email spam and online postings.

Created and single-handedly ran a promotions company for unsigned bands locally, regionally, and globally. Arranged airtime on local radio stations, organized street campaigns, conducted interviews, and ran social media promotions for over one hundred bands. Acted as a liaison between bands and local venues, record labels, recording studios, and other promoters. Attended music festivals as a member of the press and conducted interviews, took photos, and wrote pieces on performances of musicians.

Responsible for coordinating, creating, promoting, booking guests for, and hosting a weekly radio show, as logging content online and helping to maintain station blog.