Education
University of Washington
Seattle, WA · September 2017 — March 2019
M.S. in Human Centered Design & Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA · August 2010 — May 2014
B.S. in Statistics · Minor in Architecture
Skills & Tools
Design
Sketches · User scenarios · Storyboards · Feature prioritization · Wireframes · Information architecture · Interaction flows · Interactive prototypes · Design specs · Redlines · Video storytelling
Research
Interviews · Contextual inquiry · Surveys · Competitive analysis · Affinity diagrams · Personas · Usability studies · Heuristic evaluations · Cognitive walkthroughs
Analytics
Exploratory data analysis · Experiment design · User segmentation · Predictive modeling · Clickstream analysis
Tools
Sketch · InVision · Principle · ProtoPie · Balsamiq · InDesign · Photoshop · Illustrator · Premiere · Arduino · Processing · R · SQL · HTML · CSS · JavaScript · Python
Activities
UW Husky100 Award · Nominee
Women in Science & Engineering · Sponsee
Treasurer · Graduate Student Association
Student ambassador · HCDE
Editor (Comics) · The Tartan Newspaper
Work Experience
UX Designer
Virtual Therapeutics · August 2021 — present
Working with several teams to develop internal tools for managing product development. Creating an external-facing platform including a mobile app and web portals to view and manage patient and session data. Establishing a company-wide design language and component framework.
UX Designer
Edifecs · March — July 2021
Owned the scoping, requirement-gathering and design phases of a large, complex product implementation. Collaborated with PMs, engineers and clients to deliver a tool for population management in healthcare.
Associate UX Designer
Edifecs · October 2019 — March 2021
Collaborated with product managers and engineers to ensure usability and enhance features of various products. Conducted usability testing, created user flows, screen mockups and interactive prototypes to achieve this. Augmented icon library that is used by entire team across all products and projects. Spearheaded company-wide accessibility initiative, as well as an initiative to integrate various development streams across products.
UX Designer
UW School of Nursing · July 2019 — October 2019
Lead all aspects of app design for a mobile app for older adults to alleviate symptoms of frailty by tracking diet and nutrition. Created information architecture, user flows, prototypes, and usability test plans. Worked with a developer to rapidly iterate on design.
UX Design Intern
HandiMaps, Inc. · April 2018 — September 2018
Created user flows and interactive prototypes for a wayfinding app for users with mobility impairments. Conducted usability testing and created redlines for the dev team. Created investor pitch decks and competition posters.
Data Analytics Manager
American Express · July 2014 — April 2017
Devised and implemented segmentation strategy for 23 million customers and designed experiments to measure effectiveness of web and mobile marketing campaigns. Built a proof-of-concept for a merchant recommendation platform. Mentored several students, wrote and edited for a weekly newsletter, and started a data science journal club.
Teaching Assistant · Publishing on the WWW
Tepper School of Business · January 2012 — May 2014
Demonstrated labs, held help sessions and office hours and graded homework for a course that teaches HTML, CSS, Adobe Dreamweaver and basic design principles.