Experience

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  ELEVEN

  • Greater Boston Area

  • Director of Research & Opportunities

    • Sep 2015 - Present
    • Greater Boston Area

    ELEVEN is a design firm that uses different powers of perspective to provide expert services in research, leading edge design, visual communication, and business strategy for diverse manufacturing and service industries. We engage our clients through design services or venture partnerships. We li...

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  NeighborFoodGroup

  • Boston, MA

  • Founder & Workshop Leader

    • Nov 2017 - Present
    • Boston, MA

    NeighborFoodGroup is a hands-on workshop I host in my home. Once a month I invite neighbors to come together in a warm and welcoming atmosphere and teach a range of cooking and baking techniques. Workshops have included pumpkin pie, holiday cookies, ricotta gnocchi and cookies, quiche and scones,...

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  Etsy

  • Greater Boston Area

  • Greeting Card Illustrator

    • Jul 2012 - Present
    • Greater Boston Area

    Chickens falling from the sky, snakes eating ice cream, ghosts doing laundry... Comic art is my favorite magic trick of all. I draw and sell whimsical cartoon greeting cards for holidays, seasons, and special occasions.Here's my Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/LeftUnattendedComics

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  Seek Company

  • Boston, MA

  • Research & Innovation Consultant

    • Jun 2013 - Aug 2015
    • Boston, MA

    Seek is an innovation consultancy that specializes in human understanding and partners with the world’s most visionary brands to help them innovate and grow through a deep understanding of the people they serve. As a research and innovation consultant, I led client-side innovation through qualit...

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  Arnold Worldwide

  • Boston, MA

  • Brand Planner

    • Mar 2012 - Apr 2013
    • Boston, MA

    Arnold Worldwide is a global advertising agency that is headquartered in Boston. As a brand planner, I conducted research with consumers, monitored cultural trends, and aligned with client objectives to uncover how people, trends, technology, and brands intersect and impact each other. From this ...

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  Massachusetts College of Art

  • Boston, MA

  • Industrial Design Teaching Assistant

    • Jan 2012 - Jul 2012
    • Boston, MA

    After attending this continuing education class as a student, I was asked by the instructor to come back as a teaching assistant for a semester. In this role, I prepared materials and led sessions on research techniques, industrial design jobs, and relevant resources. I also assisted students wit...

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  MIT Energy Initiative

  • Cambridge, MA

  • Student Engagement Coordinator

    • Sep 2008 - Mar 2012
    • Cambridge, MA

    The MIT Energy Initiative is a platform for highly focused energy-related activity at MIT. The initiative includes research, education, campus energy management and outreach programs that cover all areas of energy supply and demand, security, and environmental impact.As a student engagement coord...

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  Hill Holliday

  • Boston, MA

  • Research Consultant

    • Sep 2011 - Nov 2011
    • Boston, MA

    For this brief research study, I collected background research and advised the design of an experiment to test the correlation between intentional exposure and advertising effectiveness. Results were presented at a conference on custom content.

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  Olson Zaltman Associates

  • Boston, MA

  • Research Associate

    • Jan 2006 - Aug 2008
    • Boston, MA

    Olson Zaltman Associates is a research-based consulting firm founded by academics who were eager to study the impact of recent advances in social and mind sciences on market dynamics. As a research analyst, I conducted one-on-one interviews using the patented Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Techniqu...

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  Radius Restaurant

  • Boston, MA

  • Pastry Cook

    • Aug 2005 - Dec 2005
    • Boston, MA

    Radius was (past tense, sadly!) a fine dining restaurant serving new American cuisine. It was chef Michael Schlow's flagship restaurant in Boston's Financial District, and it operated for 15 years. As a pastry cook, I prepared and plated all items on dessert menu, including Tahitian vanil...

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  Brigham and Women's Hospital

  • Boston, MA

  • Research Assistant: Visual Attention Lab

    • Jun 2001 - Aug 2003
    • Boston, MA

    In this cognitive psychology laboratory, I studied the nature of visual information processing and visual attention using psychophysical measures. I conducted research on how images of scenes are understood, whether intersection is a feature that allows rapid detection of a target among distracto...