Jared Heyen

Jared Heyen

Interaction Research & Design in NYC

About

Web surfer and space cowboy studying French, reading about agriculture, making video game music, riding bikes, and watching films with friends.

Work Experience

2024 — Now
Brooklyn, NY

Building tools addressing waste management, community development, food security, and data privacy.

2021 — 2024
New York, New York

Designed interfaces and systems for various industrial clients.

I worked with teams from City of Hope, Walmart, Blue Buffalo, BASF Driscoll's, and Hill's Pet Nutrition to create interactive design resources to improve accessibility and usability of websites and web apps.

2020 — 2020
Houston

Designed interactive digital environments for commercial aircraft training.

I worked with three software engineers to create virtual reality tools to train individuals responsible for checking aircraft preparedness.

2019 — 2020
Little Rock

Conducted data analysis to determine credit statuses of bank commercial real estate portfolios.

I worked with the banking research team to develop financial models to gauge credit worthiness.

2016 — 2017
Houston

Assisted with office resource management, software quality assurance, and data analytics.

I worked with the team responsible for managing the delivery of major projects for the development of new technology solutions.

Side Projects

2022

Musk & Bezos race to space in RocketRush.

I created the soundtrack and sound effects for this video game developed by computer science students at Harding University.

2018

Flokk was a group-oriented iOS application that allowed users to share short videos in private feeds.

I designed Flokk my junior year of high school for my family and friends; to address concerns with data privacy.

Education

2017 — 2021
BBA Information Systems, Project Management at Harding University

Florence Spring 2019, International Student Committee member, CFA Research Challenge participant, Statistics tutor, Member of campus sustainability group

Contact

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Teams

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