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Columbia, Sc, Us

Nashville, Tennessee, Us

Allston, Ma, Us

∙ Semi-Finalist of the President's Innovation Challenge - Spring 2021

Irvine, Ca, Us

∙ Developed expertise in a complex internal product and simplified the design by combining four tools into one coherent product. This work improved the efficiency of one hundred internal users by more than 15%.∙ Responsible for two product teams. Tasks included collaborating with product managers, developers, and other stakeholders to ensure design consistency in a fast pace and constantly changing work environment. ∙ Assisted the design system development and facilitated cross-functional teams to adopt new interface guidelines successfully.∙ Volunteered and successfully executed a new company team identity initiative, which included researching, designing, and presenting 12 custom logos with their team identities for all engineers in two months while consistently carrying out day-to-day UX tasks.

∙ Designed and developed PACare, a perioperative care application is aiming to transform the patient experience.∙ Design and prototyped PACkids for Boston Children's Hospital. PACkids is an app that reduces children's anxiety during hospital visits by providing approachable educational content through storytelling.

∙ Consult on technology and design solutions to improve operation, management, and analytical processes for insurance brokerages and corporations globally in a wide range of industries from retail, to renewable energy.∙ Design email banners, infographics, presentations, and company reports. My design work on project proposals has been singled out by the clients multiple time as instrumental in acquiring recent customers.∙ Revenue increase by 100% during my tenure as one of two employees at the company.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

SCAD is collaborating with Google to research and develop concepts and internal materials to educate and train Google’s staff on designing for inclusivity.

Worldwide, Oo

∙ Led the team to successfully develop new hiring solution for internal and external use by Deloitte's consulting division.∙ Managed 15 other people as team leader to complete an agile product development process in 10 weeks. The final deliverable includes application prototype, VR and 360 experience, videos, process book, and presentations, etc.∙ Successfully presented project results with senior Deloitte partner.∙ As a result of project success, Deloitte has requested multiple additional paid projects from design team, and increased campus recruiting quotas from SCAD.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

∙ Redesigned internal systems to submit and track medical claims for 1,000 patients monthly.∙ Redesigned data entry and tracking system for medical claims to enable Aegis to achieve its first-ever month of positive revenue generation.

∙ Created a product demo video for the home page, https://www.wick.io

Savannah, Ga, Us

∙ Researched, created, and led 7 volunteer activities for the elderly, including visits to nursing homes. ∙ Recipient of United Way Art and Culture Award, SERVE 2017.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), User Experience(Major), Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, Illustration

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