Senior UX Designer. Design Writer. UX Researcher/Data Visualizer.
I have been funded through UMBC through a Teaching Assistantship, and have had the pleasure to act as the TA for IS 303. The course was titled Interaction Design, and I was in charge of teaching Undergraduates through the use of projects. In addition to providing me valuable teaching experience, I have had a chance…
Goal for this project: Understand problems faced by two different organizations and work together with other academics to tackle real world problems. Time frame: 1 day. One of the cool things about my past conference experiences has definitely been what is known as #CHI4Good. In this experience, people from around the world come together at…
Secondary Social Studies Infographic One of the recent projects that I had the pleasure of working on was with the education department at UMBC. One of the things this allowed me to do was to go through all of the steps of creating an infographic based on the data, which was largely due to a…
Working as a Student Volunteer at CHI was quite an eye-opening experience. I had attended CHI previously as an attendee, which allowed me the opportunity to attend a number of sessions and talk with a number of visionaries in our field. However, this year I had the pleasure to work behind the scenes, and have…
ASPIRE is a serious game meant for military personnel who are undergoing the Operation Stress Control and Readiness Training (OSCAR) program. This serious game is meant to help train those personnel to deal with a number of problems that soldiers may encounter within the field. This game not only presents a number of complex scenarios…
On June 1st, I attended the National Day for Civic Hacking in Orlando. This was an event to have citizens try and generate ideas on how to improve the city. I introduced my idea, which was an energy monitor program in which users could monitor their energy usage when compared with others, and was selected…