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United States

- Establishing UX research processes, educating the organization about the value and process of UX research.- Providing coaching, training, mentoring and knowledge sharing necessary for UX researchers to successfully advance career goals, and improve effectiveness as consultants to Bixal’s clients. - Participating in interviews, evaluating candidates’.

Fairfax, VA, USA

- Practice Design Thinking and Design Sprints by conducting workshops with team and stakeholders to understand project requirements, user experience goals and gaps- Identify target users; create personas and journey maps- Plan and conduct user research, analyze research results and deliver recommendations to the team and stakeholders- Build sitemaps.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Motherhood Design is a local pro-bono initiative to explore and design solutions that help to keep new mothers mentally healthy. Recently launched a product http://www.mommyhelper.co - Building a research roadmap; communicating and refreshing on regular basis to ensure relevancy.- Identifying best research method based on research questions, timeline, and.

1881 Campus Commons Dr Reston VA

- Utilizing qualitative and quantitative research methods to uncover users’ needs, wants and challenges based on product team’s questions and goals.- Identifying best method or a mix of methods based on research goals, questions, timeline and resourcing.- Planning strategy for outreach to find feedback participants.- Evaluating existing product in order to.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Planning and executing Internal communications work to ensure employees are kept informed and motivated by communicating through several channels, such as a staff intranet, social media, and regular newsletters. Working closely with executives establishing organizational messages and keeping staff informed of developments. Implementing strategies for the.

Washington D.C.

• Working with the diverse group of users across various business units, department managers, vendors, and project teams to gather business requirements, provide implementation alternatives and transfer business.
• Facilitating meetings with diverse group of stakeholders: department managers, vendors and project teams to analyze business processes, gathering and eliciting business requirements for marketing business processes.
• Participating in JAD sessions to elicit requirements from various stakeholders for future application functionality;
• Developing a workflow for mobile application within Human Interface Guidelines, presenting the workflow to stakeholders.
• Conducting mobile apps technology research and analysis on latest trends in mobile apps gestures and features and competitive environment; making recommendations based on guidelines for major changes and features.
• Designing the look-n-feel requirements of the application UI/UX design; creating and documenting business requirements and functional requirements and documentation for the application using Confluence.

Washington D.C.

• Identifying and understanding various stakeholders’ business needs and usage scenarios for creating a portfolio database of company projects; conducting regular meetings with executives documenting status of projects.
• Facilitating a process of creating marketing materials by an external PR vendor, working with the external team of writers to ensure they understand the requirements and produce marketing content in compliance with.
• Planning, conducting, and directing business problems analysis to be solved with automated IT systems; conducting JAD sessions with system developers communicating requirements and changes to be implemented into the.
• Interacting with various project owners on multiple projects, facilitating JAD sessions with them for business requirements elicitation; acquiring detailed technical information about organization’s projects.
• Participating in proposal process and developing portfolio of company’s past performance and best practices; creating storyboards using win themes; working with the proposal team.
• Identifying and documenting internal software development and implementation processes; making recommendations for system improvements to management and different stakeholders.

Yekaterinburg, Russia

• Tebodin Consultants & Engineers is one of the world’s finest engineering & consulting firms, with the extensive network of around 50 offices in North West, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The.
• Creating and translating business requirements to technical requirements, facilitating clear communication flow to avoid misunderstanding between various teams and business units.
• Meetings facilitation including agendas, meeting minutes preparation and meeting presentation development; creating customized PowerPoint presentations that tell a solutions-based story for executive leaders.
• Works cross-departmentally providing technical and administrative direction/recommendations for personnel performing software development tasks, including the review of case studies content for correctness, adherence.
• Support the development of near-term, intermediate and long-term goals for the organization’s marketing materials remaining committed to the long-term success of the project; accountability for personal activities and.
• Researching, compiling, and documenting data, analyzing business processes and workflows, organizing work processes within organization.

Master'S Degree, International Relations And Affairs

Associate'S Degree, Visual Communication / Graphic Design

Activities and Societies: AMUN (American Model United Nations)