Resume

RELATED EXPERIENCE

Yahoo! Flex Force, Interaction Designer
2009-present
Led interaction design for projects including a user-generated translation platform and social privacy settings redesign. Created task flows, storyboards and wireframes as design deliverables.

Kaiser Permanente, Usability & Project Management Intern
2008
Internal project manager for the redesign and usability evaluation of the Clinical Library. Conducted detailed content analysis, recruited testing participants, wrote test questions, and made design recommendations.

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

National Kidney Foundation of Michigan, Site Designer
2008-2009
Designed, built and managed ktalk, an online support community for young adults with chronic kidney disease using the content management system Drupal. Paper on the project will be presented at the 2010 American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium.

MIFresh: Promoting Local Produce Consumption, User Experience Designer & Researcher
2008-2009
Won 2nd place in the Student Design Competition of the 2009 CHI conference with MIFresh, a proposed system of public displays and interactive kiosks to create sustained demand for local produce.

OTHER EXPERIENCE

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Visual Materials Coordinator
2004-2007
Local content manager for architecture firm’s digital asset management and project information management systems.

EDUCATION

University of Michigan School of Information, Ann Arbor, MI
MSI, Human-Computer Interaction
2007-2009

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
BFA, Painting
2000-2003