
Work Experience
• Spearheaded 4 high-impact research initiatives over 1 year, conducting user research, synthesizing mixed-method data, and presenting 300+ actionable insights to executive leadership, driving strategic product decisions and improving customer experiences across 8 hardware/software projects.
• Demonstrated leadership by mentoring 4 UX interns, facilitating bi-weekly research roundtables and quarterly retros for a 60+ person team, fostering continuous learning and knowledge sharing, and pioneering an AI Hackathon project resulting in an AI deployment product to enhance user experiences.
• Conducted 12+ user interviews and synthesized qualitative data alongside Senior Researchers, observing and analyzing real-time critical events with first responders to generate insights that informed UX leadership and the product team.
• Presented research findings to key stakeholders, surfacing deployment and customer experience issues on 2 projects, and created testing materials that improved installation and detection accuracy of license plate readers by 85%.
• Collaborated closely with UI developers, designing and delivering 100+ high-fidelity prototypes for a 4-page application based on 2 months of research and 4 healthcare workflows, while actively participating in all SAFE Agile Scrum ceremonies to align on functional designs and workflows.
• Created comprehensive design systems, user flows, and style guides for 3 projects across 2 industries, establishing consistent UI standards, and supported product owners by gathering requirements, writing user stories and acceptance criteria, and presenting at 8 internal events on various topics, including wellness, storytelling, recruitment, and mentorship.
• Tested delivered platforms across multiple projects in 3 industries, identifying UI defects and collaborating closely with developers to resolve issues, ensuring a high-quality user experience.
• Played a pivotal role in user onboarding and adoption by initiating the creation of a comprehensive ~100-page user manual for a custom-designed analytics application, utilized globally by new users, and developed a high-priority daily progress tracker and status update for a critical 250+ person project, enabling timely delivery.
- Tested platforms across industries resolving 90% UI defects. Gathered requirements during 2-week client workshop for SAP analytics app. Organized Design Thinking and UX education sessions including Deloitte Greenhouse and Doblin tour.
Side Projects
Partnering with Palash Bera (ITM & SCM Department Dean and Machine Learning/DataMining/Analytics Professor) on setting up and establishing the university's first ever HCI Lab.
Awards
Awarded for MSI's L6Q Quick Deploy ALPR Camera
Awarded for MSI's V700 Body Worn Camera