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• Served as lead UX researcher responsible for planning and implementing user research strategies and methodologies.• Established relationships and collaborated across teams including design, product, sales, and customer support to perform research and positively influence research buy-in.• Planned, facilitated, analyzed and reported on research including user interviews, surveys, early adopter programs, competitive analysis, and usability tests across the organization.• Coached the junior UX researcher on the team to write more effective reports and deliver findings to stakeholders in a clearer and more efficient format.

• Contributed to a lean and mean team to develop information architecture, design patterns, and high fidelity UI designs for a clinical research study platform for UVa over a 5 month period.• Designed screens for UVa's research platform using Material Design and design standards to ensure increased usability for over 75 clinical researchers.•Prototyped training module responsive web app to aide parents of autistic children, with life skills.

•Specialized in discovery customer interviews, unmoderated usability study setup, and stakeholder alignment workshops. •Implemented and trained product and design team on research tool, UserZoom, which allowed for faster testing by 3 weeks per project.•Served as dedicated UX research resource for UX design and product across 7 departments throughout the organization.•Played a key role in scaling UX Ops by conducting tool evaluation, bringing in UserZoom and assembling a research contact repository.

Served as UX/UI designer on Department of Labor leading the design effort to move from Flash to HTML5.Led design review meetings with client bi-weekly using Invision and communicated with client regularly on changing requirements.Designed with usability, best practices, accessibility, and current design standards as top priorities. Intevity is a digitally-focused management consultancy who believes technology’s impact on business is ineffective without alignment, relevance, and velocity. Since 2003, we have been delivering world-class service to Fortune 500 companies across Financial Services, Healthcare, Insurance, Media and Retail as well as Non-Profit and Government Agencies. Through design thinking, pattern recognition, and deep technical acumen, we execute end-to-end solutions organized around meaningful business outcomes.

Served as UX/UI designer through major branding changes and learned design interaction software to deliver assets to the client. Scribed, performed project management, planned and participated in a requirements gathering workshop, created PowerPoints and visual designs for government projects. Performed market research for digital transformation, the financial and pharmaceutical industries aiding the C-suite in pre-sales activities and pitches. Planned, participated, and created slide decks for client participatory workshops.

Short-Term contract role with Pepperjam working on a usability study with the Bath & Body Works mobile application. Co-developed study recruiting criteria and drafted recruiting screeners. Supported senior researcher in the form of study logistics, test day prep, and note taking. Mocked up wireframes to clearly communicate recommendations and value of changes developed as as result of user testing. Documented and communicated findings and recommendations through a combination of remote and in-person client presentations.

Plannerzone is a think tank for brand strategy and consumer insights. We help you understand your relationship with the people who own and love your brands. The conclusions drawn from our studies allow our clients to create more effective strategies for product development, sales, distribution, and messaging. Our team has extensive experience researching business decision makers for clients such as Aflac, HSBC, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. We’ve also studied purchase journeys and switching behavior for Dell, Apple, Verizon, DirecTV, and others.

•·Designed several product sheets using Excel with graphics including a 26-page craft spirits portfolio aiding in a 150% growth of the business.·Scheduled meetings, staff trainings, lobby samplings, approved print jobs, attended meetings, established rapport and submitted orders on a daily basis.·Managed and grew business 15% in a territory of over 140 accounts and collaborated with 3 internal sales teams to exceed monthly team distribution and volume goals.

·Designed several product sheets using Excel with graphics including a 26-page craft spirits portfolio aiding in a 150% growth of the business.·Scheduled meetings, staff trainings, lobby samplings, approved print jobs, attended meetings, established rapport and submitted orders on a daily basis.·Managed and grew business 15% in a territory of over 140 accounts and collaborated with 3 internal sales teams to exceed monthly team distribution and volume goals.

·Received honors in the Charmer-Sunbelt Apprentice Course covering wine and spirits education and became a certified beverage professional.·Insured execution of supplier promotions and product placement of all Capital Wine and Spirits brands. ·Impacted 29 stores in Chester and Delaware Counties selling in new products and expanding growth ofexisting ones.

Help get website up and running so that we can start social media marketing. Send out customer service and feedback letters.Enter Interior Fashions' contests.

Trained to be an executive team lead by learning store operations from the ground up.Worked on a project with assets protection specifically in cosmetics to create an increase in sales and backroom location accuracy. Lead the building during leader on duty shifts.

Helped account management with projects for TD Bank , Bayer and APU.·Assisted with the creation of customer facing presentations and collateral.

From Seoul to Singapore, Tokyo to Taipei and Beijing to Bangkok, Five by Fifty supplies intelligence on consumer behavior to world-class companies in retail, beauty & wellness, fast-moving consumer goods, business services and leisure & hospitality.

• Interned for WFHM in the Chester Fulfillment Center for a 10 week summer program.• Learned about the life of a loan through shadowing employees in all areas.• Worked on an intern challenge project with fellow interns to improve Wells Fargo Home Mortgage customer service.

Mentor and Literacy Instructor, BITSMentored 10 high school age Philadelphian teens (every week day) employed by Work Ready Philadelphia.The students were building information technology skills and using these skills to make suggestions for improving Philadelphia's Wissahickon park. I mentored and instructed the technological skill lessons.