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Fort Worth, Tx, Us

Fort Worth, Texas, Us

Fort Worth, Texas, Us

Plano, Tx, Us

Multi-national based in Dallas, Texas that provides nonprofits, schools, and universities with SaaS technology platforms in support of 13 million users for activities and events including races, sports, outdoor activities, and camps. • Primary researcher of 13 products at Active Network.• Managed projects to effectively drive forward decision making. • Projects ranged from exploratory research, usability studies, heuristic reviews and interviews to competitive analysis and data visualizations.• Worked with diverse teams across marketing, design, sales, and product management.• Conducted interviews with potential clients and important customers to analyze their complex data ecosystems to inform product managers, and improve Active’s customer relationships.• Initiated and conducted the first exploratory research study at Active, which focused on learning about the growing esports market and identified several ways to target this audience with existing products.• Conducted mobile and desktop usability studies to improve e-commerce checkout conversions, discover pain points in our products, and further investigate the products context of use.• Created surveys with product managers, sales, and marketers to better understand our customers, and our products’ shortcomings.• Heuristic Analyses of the company’s website, and checkout flows.• Conducted competitor analysis to help inform designers, marketers and product managers of best practices for improving our company website’s interaction design, visual design, and copywriting to increase sales leads.

Mobiliti was a co-design conference with Boston Consulting Group and Maya Design that brought together employers and mobility providers with city residents of Pittsburgh to enable more reliable commutes. My work ranged from business development, data visualization, tailoring co-design activities, preparing materials for the sessions and a presentation. I also facilitated the pilots, which will be tested by a third party, and synthesized the research information collected during the conference.

Loughborough, Leicestershire, Gb

Master of art’s in UX Design, graduated with Merit, participated in a hackathon sponsored by Deloitte Digital with Hong Kong university MBA students.Courses included: Research Methods, Business and Enterprise, Service Design for Social Innovation, Design for Behavioral Change, Usability, User Experience Design, Major Project, and a group Project with Catapult Transportation.Canopy Reading• UX Research and Design.• Conducted Ethnographic research of social groups around reading; consisting ofobservational studies, interviews, and prototyping for usability.• Created prototypes of augmented reality interactions and features.• Presented updates of research findings for stakeholders.Freshco• UX Research and Design.• Cooperated with local stakeholders to repurpose a local rectory building for modern use.• Created and facilitated co-design activities with active members in the local community.• Developed a plan for the installation of a sensory garden on the rectory’s property, and events for the local community.• Created a storyboard and directed a video prototype.PEDL• UX Research and Design.• Project done with the support of Catapult: Transportation, an innovation center overseen by Innovate UK.• Created a research plan that consisted of surveys, diary studies and observations to understand commuting behaviors in the English midlands.• Analysis, data visualization and communications of findings.• Assisted with prototyping and task flow analysis.• Presented our final conclusions and suggested design.Project with Sainsbury’s• UX Research, Design, and Business Analysis.• Project with Sainsbury’s grocer and overseen by The Sound Agency.• Conducted ethnographic research to understand generation edge’s shopping patterns (ages 18-23).• Analyzed how young adults’ shop and the leading causes for them to generate food waste• Built a business proposition based on a P&L report on a way to build relationships with young adults.

Master Of Arts - Ma, User Experience Design

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Psychology