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Resume

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Work
Experience

July 2024-

present

Interface System Analyst--LCMC Health

  • ​Analyze user requirements to automate clinical documentation and improve existing workflows

  • Design and build interfaces within Epic application to meet end users’ needs 

  • Assist in developing ambulatory tools that providers need to give health care to patients while ensuring efficiency 

June 2023-Sept 2024

UX intern -- Aptima

  • Design user-centered wireframes and high-fidelity prototypes for multiple products

  • Create interactive designs in iterative process using Figma

  • Write and conduct UX Research

    • Moderated usability tests

    • user personas, flow diagrams, and journeys

    • Interviews, surveys, and focus groups

    • Evaluative feedback

  • Develop and facilitate design workshops 

  • Work with collaborative teams in various stages of development

  • Design auditing to evaluate usability and ensure consistency in designs

2022

UI/HMI researcher -- Ohio State University

  • Contributed to DARPA program by designing the interface for semi-automated satellite management for space reconnaissance; will be implemented as open source code by CACI International

  • Spoke with subject matter experts to identify complexity factors unique to the space domain for use in evaluation scenarios of system prototypes by the Institute for Human Machine Cognition

2018; 2021

Ethnographer -- PAST Foundation

  • Led focus groups and interviews with educators and school administrators on students’ use of technology and issues of accessibility in distance learning among underserved communities, requiring the ability to multitask

  • Observed Chevron and GE-funded project on implementing digital fabrication technology into STEM curricula

  • Analyzed human-machine interactions and used contextual inquiry assess how students used the technology to create products from start to finish

  • Filed final reports and made suggestions to stakeholders on how to utilize the machinery to maximize learning efficiency

2019-2023

Graduate Teaching Associate -- Ohio State University

  • Teach undergraduate students on a variety of topics including research methods and ethnography, requiring the ability to communicate to a diverse audience

  • Ranked in top quartile for university instructors

  • Emphasize importance of cultural awareness in the classroom, while encouraging students to be respectful of differing opinions and promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)

Research

2019-2023

Doctoral research in Riace, Italy

  • Analyzed refugee integration in Riace, Italy. Interviewed and surveyed 40+ migrants and locals.

  • Sought to understand how the Riace Model of Migration works and evaluate its success

  • Handled all participant recruitment, networking, logistics, and qualitative and quantitative research methods.

  • Used for Master's thesis and published results

2017-2018

Thesis in Cleveland, Ohio

  • Interviewed and surveyed 35+ refugees about the biggest challenges they face in integrating into American society.

  • Recruited participants and analyzed resettlement programs, offering solutions to improve immigrant well-being

  • Served as the foundation for doctoral research and received funding as a result

Education

2020-2023*

Ohio State University
PhD, anthropology (AbD*)

2018-2020

Ohio State University
Master's, anthropology

2016-2018

Cleveland State University
Bachelor's, anthropology (valedictorian)

Skills
& Expertise

  • UX Research

    • A/B testing; card sorting

    • Interviews

    • Surveys

    • Focus Groups

    • Usability tests

  • Research planning and logistics

  • UX Design

    • Wireframes

    • Facilitating Workshops

    • Prototyping

    • Figma; XD

  • Ethnography

  • Refugee health and integration

Awards
& Recognitions

  • National Science Foundation REG 

  • SALT Travel Award in anthropology

  • University Fellowship

  • Valedictorian of Cleveland State University

  • CSU Research grant for independent study

  • Butler Jones Scholarship on Race & Ethnic Studies

  • Mandel Honors College, Upper Division 

  • All-State Ohio Academic Scholarship 

  • Bernie Moreno Auto Group  Scholarship 

  • All-USA Academic Team—First Team

  • Coca-Cola Leaders of Promise Scholarship 

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