Résumé
Summary
UX designer skilled in interface design, user experience research, and HTML prototyping.
Experience
- Senior Interaction Designer
- NPR, Washington, DC, November 2014 - Present
- Design, moderate, analyze, and present user experience research
- Create designs and collaborate with multi-displinary Scrum team to impliment and iterate
- Collaborate with newsroom staff for various initiatives, including the Morning Edition book club
- Co-chair: Community Engagement
- IA Summit, Washington, DC, March 2014 - April 2015
- Curate the professional and social programs of a 600-person, national conference
- Led first ever research initiative with attendees, speakers, and stakeholders
- Recruit and enable volunteers to complete their respective duties
- Senior Interaction Designer
- EightShapes, Washington, DC, June 2011 - January 2014
- Design, moderate, analyze, and present user experience research
- Create designs and accompanying design documentation
- Prototype designs using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript within the Blocks prototype toolkit
- User Experience Designer
- AED (now FHI 360), Washington, DC, December 2008 - May 2011
- Research, design, and prototype user experiences while collaborating with teammates
- Introduced and grew UX design and research into a prominent component of team’s process
- Moderated usability testing and interviews with teachers in Rwandan schools
- Led redesign of Global Learning Portal logo, including research activity with stakeholders
- Class Administrator for Information Architecture and the User Experience
- GS Graduate School, Washington, DC, September 2010 - December 2011
- Assist instructor Thom Haller in teaching and discussing IA and UX principles
- Provide connection for students to DC IA/UX community
- Gallery Assistant
- Healing Arts Gallery at Smith Farm Center, Washington, DC, August 2008 - December 2008
- Monitored gallery and assisted Gallery Director with special event coordination
- Designed bimonthly postcards and regular Constant Contact emails
- Chair of the Student Educational Policy Committee
- Grinnell College Department of Art, Grinnell, IA, August 2007 - May 2008
- Organized the annual Student Art Salon held in Faulconer Gallery
- Recruited and coordinated guest juror of the Student Art Salon
- Technology Consultant
- Grinnell College ITS, January 2005 - May 2008
- Troubleshot PC and Apple computers remotely and on-site from the IT Helpdesk
- Mentored newly hired staff, explaining technical concepts in plain language
Presentations, Publications, & Community Involvement
- Guest lecturer at Intermediate Web Design at the Art Institute of Washington, with instructor Patricia Kruep, 17 November 2014: Fluent UX Sketching
- Guest lecturer at User Experience Design at the General Assembly, with instructors Jennifer Romano Bergstrom and Sree Anirudh Bhandaram, 10 November 2014: Fluent UX Sketching
- Presentation at Midwest UX 2014, 24 October 2014: The Self-Aware Researcher (Description, Slide deck, Video)
- Presentation at DCWW Code(Her) Conference 2014, 13 September 2014: A Nicer Kind of Interrogation (Conference Website, Slide deck)
- Presentation at 2014 IA Summit, 29 March 2014: The Self-Aware Researcher (Description, Slide deck)
- Workshop for DC Web Women Code(Her) Workshops, 14 January 2014: Intro to Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets (Sass) (Slide deck, Example code)
- Discussion at Mobile UXCamp DC 2013, 14 September 2013: Native App Reviews — Bring your App! with James Melzer
- Workshops at Sketchcamp Grand Rapids 2013, 19 July 2013: Sketchnoting in the Deep End (Event website)
- Presentation at Sketchcamp Grand Rapids 2013, 19 July 2013: Learning to Sketch through Sketchnoting (Event website)
- Guest Lecturer at INFM 702 Users and Use Context at the University of Maryland, with instructor Vera Rhoads, 18 April 2013: Sketching and the User Experience (Program website)
- Guest Post for the Sketchnote Army, 9 May 2013: How to Start Sketchnoting (Blog post)
- Sketchnote Army Field Marshall for the IA Summit 2013, April 2012: How to Start Sketchnoting (Announcement and Flickr pool)
- Article for the Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology, October/November 2012: How to Start Sketchnoting (Article)
- Podcast on Radio Johnny with Jeff Parks, 24 September 2012: Sketching Out a Greater Understanding (Podcast)
- Presentation at IxDA DC, 28 August 2012: How and Why to Start Sketchnoting (Event website)
- Presentation at UX Week 2012, 24 March 2012: How and Why to Start Sketchnoting (Video)(Description)
- Workshop at Midwest UX 2012, 31 May 2012: Let's Sketchnote! with Binaebi Akah and Charlene McBride (Summary and slides)(Sketchnote Army post)
- Guest Lecturer at Information Architecture & the User Experience at the Graduate School, with instructor Thom Haller, 2 May 2012: Sketching and User Experience
- Podcast for LDNIA Podcast, 2 April 2012: Special Edition from IA Summit 12 (Podcast & Summary)
- Presentation at IA Summit 2012, 24 March 2012: Why and How to Start Sketchnoting (Slide deck)
- Presentation at The Big Redux DC, 30 April 2011: UX Research in the Real World (Slideshare)
- Presentation at Midwest UX Conference, 9 April 2011: UX Research in the Real World (Slideshare) (PDF) (Talk description)
- Poster at IA Summit 2011, 1 April 2011: UX Research in the Real World: Stories from Rwanda (PDF)
- Presentation at UXCamp DC 2011, 8 January 2011: My Rwandan User Experience
Skills
- Skilled in interaction design, information architecture, and user experience research
- Skilled at prototyping with HTML, CSS, jQuery
- Proficient with Adobe products: especially InDesign, Illustrator
- Resourceful and quick-learning
- Skilled at rapport building
Education
- Bachelor of Arts in Art, with honors; GPA: 3.7/4.0
- Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, May 2008
- Research Seminar in the Humanities
- Newberry Library, Chicago, IL, Fall 2006
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