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Chicago, Illinois, US

Armonk, New York, NY, US

On my team at IBM, I was a design strategist working in a pre-sales capacity. My agile, cross-disciplinary team worked closely with tech sales and clients to co-create solutions with our clients and increase IBM sales.

Naperville, Illinois, US

Naperville, Illinois, US

Work with clients, internal engineering and development, and product teams to build empowering employee experiences. Lead research and design engagements and synthesize with JTBD, journey maps, and other frameworks to inform clients' technology strategies. Designed, tested, and iterated upon the wireframes of a suite of apps that saved AstraZeneca sales.

Cambridge, MA, US

Synthesized a year-long diary study about the law school library into 6 journey maps and an aggregate map. Trained the Harvard Law Library team on making and interpreting journey maps.

Conduct and analyze usability tests for CME Group applications. Research how different marketers use leads data and design a data visualization to be sent out weekly to support internal communication about campaign success. Support CME Group's Marketing Department by conducting research and analyzing, organizing, and visualizing data for various projects.

New York, NY, US

Design for America is a national network of self-driven college innovators that are empowered to be leaders of social impact by utilizing key design processes needed to solve challenges communities face. As Studio Lead, I manage a team of 10 student leaders as we support 8 teams tackling local, socially-focused design problems.

New York, NY, US

For two summers, I managed a 6-week, full-time social impact design program. Under my leadership, it went from 12 applicants to over 50 and grew from 3 projects to 5 projects with students from across the country for the first time. From recruitment of professional mentors and students to project scoping to organizing field trips and a final presentation.

New York, NY, US

Design for America is a national network of self-driven college innovators that are empowered to be leaders of social impact by utilizing key design processes needed to solve challenges communities face. I led two different teams, teaching other students design methods while tackling the questions “How can we increase awareness of resources amongst the.

Designed and executed user research for a Fortune 500 homebuilder, including a competitive analysis, interviews, workshops, and a service safari. Synthesized research for actionable insights and to inform a customer journey map. Facilitated in-person meetings with our client team and a 2-day workshop with employees ranging from Project Managers to C-level.

Plan six events annually to increase interfaith literacy on campus.

After being involved in KCIYA throughout high school as a student leader, I planned, promoted and executed all of KCIYA's events for the summer, including a fundraiser with a keynote from Eboo Patel. The internship culminated with a day-long workshop with alumni from the Interfaith Youth Core attended by faith leaders throughout KC and an event with 40.

• Wrote articles and press releases on the group’s recent accomplishments, including all monthly service, social and leadership meetings, as well as a piece that was published by the National Catholic Reporter.
• Planned an annual community-wide Peace Walk aiming to bring together various faith communities to raise money for a specific organization

Kansas City, Missouri, US

Write articles for Anthem Publishing’s three magazines, KC Magazine, KC Business, and Good Health KC. Update social networking sites.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Journalism

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