About all the different hats I've worn in the last few years!
Jr. Frontend Developer & UX Analyst
TSURUMI AMERICA
January 2021 – May 2021
I was brought on board to help Tsurumi America transition to ecommerce amidst the pandemic. I bring user experience design knowledge and frontend development expertise to an already established marketing team of visual designers. My focus is on accessibility, readability, and making sure that we deliver a consistent experience across all our products. On any given day, I spot UX issues, edit CSS in Chrome Developer Tools, and present the design changes backed by research and understanding of human-centered design.
Tools I typically use: Adobe XD, VS Code, Chrome Developer Tools, CIMcloud CMS editor, MS Excel
Final deliverable: New ecommerce website and customer experience within CIMcloud
Skills I practice: UX analysis, rapid prototyping, HTML, CSS, and JS coding
Entrepreneurial Intern
BRETFORD MANUFACTURING
February 2020 – May 2020
As I was starting the last semester of college, a cool opportunity came up at Illinois Wesleyan: Entrepreneurial Internship. A cross-functional team of interns was formed to carry out the research and ideation phase of Bretford’s product management lifecycle. I worked on the team responsible for rolling out the next version of Bretford’s flagship products, the TechGuard Connect Charging Lockers. My contribution to the team included user research and market research to find customer pain points and researching viable technical solutions that could be integrated with Bretford’s lockers. More on it here.
Tools I used: Slack, Google Spreadsheets
Final deliverable: Market Research Document
Skills I developed: Market Research, User Research, Interviewing, Technical Research
Research Fellow
STATE FARM
May 2019 – August 2019
The summer before senior year, I applied for a research fellowship within the community development category of State Farm’s Research Program for Illinois Wesleyan student researchers (State Farm Summer Innovation Research Fellowship). I won one of 6 fellowships awarded that summer. This project included interviewing members of the City of Bloomington, reviewing literature on housing revitalization and community development, and helping communicate insights from raw survey data to non-technical stakeholders like WBRP board members. Case study here.
Tools I used: Jupyter Notebooks, Google Colab, ArcGIS
Final deliverable: PDF Document with Data Analysis and Visualizations + Literature Review
Skills I developed: Research (sociology), Interviewing, Python programming, Data Analysis and Visualization
Student Web Developer
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
August 2019 – April 2020
During my senior year of college, I also worked in the IT department as the point of contact for all website-related issues. I collaborated with internal departments to debug code, often interacting with non-technical audience, maintained test and live environments, and implemented solutions using Git. Part of my job was also giving UI design recommendations and implementing website layout changes (XML, HTML, CSS, JS, PHP) on OU Campus (OmniUpdate), one of the most common content management systems in higher education. I also helped E-sports at IWU set up a WordPress website, focusing on integrating IWU’s branding guidelines with that of E-sports.
Tools I used: VS Code, OU Campus, WordPress, Git
Final deliverables: Esports website, ongoing design and functionality changes on the college website
Skills I developed: Troubleshooting and debugging code, Git version control, collaborating with technical and non-technical people, UI design
Skills
Design and Research
UX design UX Research Market Research Interaction Design Wireframing Rapid Prototyping
Programming
Python JavaScript HTML CSS Sass C++
Data Analysis
SQL Pandas NumPy pandasql PySpark Matplotlib
Work Style
Collaborative
Team Player
Taking Ownership