UX Researcher

• Jul 2022 - Present

Leading User Research for Webflow's core products: Designer, CMS, Memberships, Logic, and Ecommerce. We empower everyone to create for the web — and lead impactful, fulfilling lives while we do it. Leading User Research for Webflow's core products: Designer, CMS, Memberships, Logic, and Ecommerce. We empower everyone to create for the web — and lead impactful, fulfilling lives while we do it.

UX Consultant

• Jan 2021 - Jul 2022

Senior UX Researcher

• Jun 2021 - Jun 2022

As a UX Researcher at Academia, my job was to facilitate mixed-methods research in collaboration with product teams to inspire, design, and build user-centered products that fuel Academia's mission of speeding up research in every domain - finding a solution to climate change; finding cures for diseases; evolving artificial intelligence. As a UX Researcher at Academia, my job was to facilitate mixed-methods research in collaboration with product teams to inspire, design, and build user-centered products that fuel Academia's mission of speeding up research in every domain - finding a solution to climate change; finding cures for diseases; evolving artificial intelligence.

UX Researcher & Strategist

• Jun 2018 - Jun 2021

g2o is a consulting firm that helps companies blend data, technology, research, and design to deliver meaningful engagement for their customers and employees. As a UX Researcher & Strategist, I helped our clients across many industries & at various UX maturity levels understand what users are experiencing to inform business decisions. I led generative and evaluative research projects for clients in retail, finance, government, real estate, healthcare, & industrial automation industries… Show more g2o is a consulting firm that helps companies blend data, technology, research, and design to deliver meaningful engagement for their customers and employees. As a UX Researcher & Strategist, I helped our clients across many industries & at various UX maturity levels understand what users are experiencing to inform business decisions. I led generative and evaluative research projects for clients in retail, finance, government, real estate, healthcare, & industrial automation industries. I facilitated various types of workshops to create alignment across silos, generate ideas, and prioritize decisions based on insights gained through our research. Internally, I worked on side projects to improve how our UX team works, as well as teaching our larger company about UX best practices. Show less g2o is a consulting firm that helps companies blend data, technology, research, and design to deliver meaningful engagement for their customers and employees. As a UX Researcher & Strategist, I helped our clients across many industries & at various UX maturity levels understand what users are experiencing to inform business decisions. I led generative and evaluative research projects for clients in retail, finance, government, real estate, healthcare, & industrial automation industries… Show more g2o is a consulting firm that helps companies blend data, technology, research, and design to deliver meaningful engagement for their customers and employees. As a UX Researcher & Strategist, I helped our clients across many industries & at various UX maturity levels understand what users are experiencing to inform business decisions. I led generative and evaluative research projects for clients in retail, finance, government, real estate, healthcare, & industrial automation industries. I facilitated various types of workshops to create alignment across silos, generate ideas, and prioritize decisions based on insights gained through our research. Internally, I worked on side projects to improve how our UX team works, as well as teaching our larger company about UX best practices. Show less

Associate Instructor

• Aug 2016 - May 2018

During graduate school, I was responsible for helping teach the following 5 courses: Spring 2018 - Visual Thinking, Meaning, and Form: The graduate course focused on strategic design thinking, visual design thinking, and values-orientation as a foundation for design. I provided teams with guidance during projects and critiqued their final deliverables. Fall 2018 - Visual Foundations of HCI: This graduate course helped to build knowledge and skills in the visual materials used for… Show more During graduate school, I was responsible for helping teach the following 5 courses: Spring 2018 - Visual Thinking, Meaning, and Form: The graduate course focused on strategic design thinking, visual design thinking, and values-orientation as a foundation for design. I provided teams with guidance during projects and critiqued their final deliverables. Fall 2018 - Visual Foundations of HCI: This graduate course helped to build knowledge and skills in the visual materials used for interaction design and UX design. I provided students with lessons in Sketch, Invision, and the Adobe Suite. I also provided critique on their final deliverables. Fall 2018 - Interaction Design Practice: This graduate course introduces students to design thinking and working collaboratively in teams on design challenges. I served as a mentor, which required meeting with teams to critique design decisions, help navigate teamwork issues, and provide project management advice. Spring 2017 - Social Informatics: This undergraduate course aimed to teach students about the mutual shaping of technology and society. My responsibility was to lead hour long discussions with two groups of 20 students. To facilitate our weekly conversations, I created slide decks that showed how various theories related to current events, products, and services. Fall 2017 - The Information Society: This undergraduate course explored the ways in which Western industrialized societies, over the course of the previous two centuries, came to see information as a crucial commercial, scientific, organizational, political, and commercial asset. I answered students' questions and graded assignments. Show less During graduate school, I was responsible for helping teach the following 5 courses: Spring 2018 - Visual Thinking, Meaning, and Form: The graduate course focused on strategic design thinking, visual design thinking, and values-orientation as a foundation for design. I provided teams with guidance during projects and critiqued their final deliverables. Fall 2018 - Visual Foundations of HCI: This graduate course helped to build knowledge and skills in the visual materials used for… Show more During graduate school, I was responsible for helping teach the following 5 courses: Spring 2018 - Visual Thinking, Meaning, and Form: The graduate course focused on strategic design thinking, visual design thinking, and values-orientation as a foundation for design. I provided teams with guidance during projects and critiqued their final deliverables. Fall 2018 - Visual Foundations of HCI: This graduate course helped to build knowledge and skills in the visual materials used for interaction design and UX design. I provided students with lessons in Sketch, Invision, and the Adobe Suite. I also provided critique on their final deliverables. Fall 2018 - Interaction Design Practice: This graduate course introduces students to design thinking and working collaboratively in teams on design challenges. I served as a mentor, which required meeting with teams to critique design decisions, help navigate teamwork issues, and provide project management advice. Spring 2017 - Social Informatics: This undergraduate course aimed to teach students about the mutual shaping of technology and society. My responsibility was to lead hour long discussions with two groups of 20 students. To facilitate our weekly conversations, I created slide decks that showed how various theories related to current events, products, and services. Fall 2017 - The Information Society: This undergraduate course explored the ways in which Western industrialized societies, over the course of the previous two centuries, came to see information as a crucial commercial, scientific, organizational, political, and commercial asset. I answered students' questions and graded assignments. Show less

Project Manager

• May 2017 - Sep 2017

During summer 2017, I chose to return to this wonderful research lab, and was thrilled when they allowed me back. They had just received a $3 million grant to help form a new science of learning that combines machine learning, neuroscience, and human learning. My role for the summer was to collaborate with a computer vision expert and a developmental psychologist to explore how infants develop the skill of recognizing objects.

Research Assistant

• May 2014 - May 2017

At the CogDev Lab, we study how babies learn. This place changed my life in so many ways, I'm forever grateful for the time I spent there. Working alongside world-class researchers taught me about teamwork and professional habits. I witnessed how a creative, successful culture is maintained. I discovered the thrill of investigating the unknown. But most importantly, I gained a whole new perspective on what it means to be human.

Zip Line Tour Guide

• May 2014 - Nov 2016

For two summers during college, I was extremely fortunate to work (have fun) as a Zip Line Tour Guide. Our responsibility was to keep everyone safe, but our goal was to give them a memorable experience with their friends/families. I had amazing mentors who taught me how quickly connect with people during our couple of hours together out in the woods. All of those days chatting up strangers now translates into how I interact with research participants. For two summers during college, I was extremely fortunate to work (have fun) as a Zip Line Tour Guide. Our responsibility was to keep everyone safe, but our goal was to give them a memorable experience with their friends/families. I had amazing mentors who taught me how quickly connect with people during our couple of hours together out in the woods. All of those days chatting up strangers now translates into how I interact with research participants.