Experience

Color

• United States
• Public Health
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Accessibility Specialist

  • Jun 2022 - Mar 2023

  - Conducted audits and generated VPATs for WCAG 2.1 AA compliance, partnering with sales teams to emphasize accessibility as fundamental requirement - Championed leadership buy-in for accessibility as a release-blocking requirement. - Drove bug fixes across product teams, created standardized remediation system. - Enhanced MUI based design system components, prototyped and documented accessible engineering patterns (React/JS). - Paired with senior designers to incorporate a11y… Show more - Conducted audits and generated VPATs for WCAG 2.1 AA compliance, partnering with sales teams to emphasize accessibility as fundamental requirement - Championed leadership buy-in for accessibility as a release-blocking requirement. - Drove bug fixes across product teams, created standardized remediation system. - Enhanced MUI based design system components, prototyped and documented accessible engineering patterns (React/JS). - Paired with senior designers to incorporate a11y in new component designs. Show less



Mural

• United States
• Software Development
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Accessibility Engineer

  • Mar 2021 - Mar 2022

  - Remediated 34% of accessibility issues across the Mural product (React/JS). - Ran outreach meetings for product teams, ran bi-weekly a11y new hire onboarding. - Provided a11y perspective in product-wide code reviews.



PayPal

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Accessibility Engineer

  • Sep 2018 - Mar 2021

  San Francisco Bay Area - Partner with PayPal UI Design Systems team to prototype and evangelize accessible React components according to WCAG 2.1 AA & interaction design best practices. - Leading hands-on training sessions for web, iOS, and android. - Ran awareness events and empathy workshops involving low-vision and low-mobility simulations, plus common assistive tech. - Conducted internal accessibility product audits, using VoiceOver, TalkBack, JAWS, and NVDA. - Wrote Java REST API to calculate… Show more - Partner with PayPal UI Design Systems team to prototype and evangelize accessible React components according to WCAG 2.1 AA & interaction design best practices. - Leading hands-on training sessions for web, iOS, and android. - Ran awareness events and empathy workshops involving low-vision and low-mobility simulations, plus common assistive tech. - Conducted internal accessibility product audits, using VoiceOver, TalkBack, JAWS, and NVDA. - Wrote Java REST API to calculate accessibility test metrics in functional testing. - Negotiated the replacement of an inaccessible open-source component with an accessibly-developed design system element in our iOS codebase. - Partnered with QA and dev tooling team to refine and evangelize internal Nemo (Selenium) accessibility automation plugin. Show less



UW-Madison WES-CS Scholars, Department of Computer Sciences

• Student Leader, Webmaster (CS 304)

  • Sep 2015 - May 2018

  What I do: Lead weekly 2-hr sessions of Java and logic development exercises for a refreshingly small group of 5-10 beginning CS students. Developing curricula based on CS Education literature and program insights for upcoming semesters and new editions of WES-CS. Developing a dynamic website for the WES-CS program. What WES-CS Is: The Computer Science branch of the Wisconsin Emerging Scholars program, WES-CS aims to develop computing confidence in all students, and particularly… Show more What I do: Lead weekly 2-hr sessions of Java and logic development exercises for a refreshingly small group of 5-10 beginning CS students. Developing curricula based on CS Education literature and program insights for upcoming semesters and new editions of WES-CS. Developing a dynamic website for the WES-CS program. What WES-CS Is: The Computer Science branch of the Wisconsin Emerging Scholars program, WES-CS aims to develop computing confidence in all students, and particularly those who are disadvantaged in CS. Find out more here: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/wes Show less



Microsoft

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineering Intern

  • May 2017 - Aug 2017

  Redmond, WA Interned under the Cosmos Front End Team within MSFT's Azure/Big Data dept. Designed, prototyped (C++/C#), and evaluated performance and scalability of various infrastructure candidates for business-critical Azure Cosmos internal functionalities. Researched performance of replicated state distributed databases. Standardized Azure Cosmos onboarding materials.



University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Computer Sciences & Statistics

• Peer Mentor (CS 577 - Algorithms)

  • Jan 2017 - Jun 2017

  Mentoring students in understanding and approaching algorithmic concepts, providing an additional and peer-based option for learning in a difficult subject area.



Microsoft

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Explorer Intern

  • Jun 2016 - Aug 2016

  Redmond, WA Microsoft Lobby Experience: Building an accessible touchscreen welcome experience under the guidance of Accessibility Program Director Anne Taylor.



Addiction Research Lab, UW-Madison

• Research Assistant

  • Jan 2015 - Aug 2016



Project Healthcare

• Project Healthcare Intern

  • Jun 2014 - Aug 2014

  Bellevue Hospital Center Acted as a patient advocate, clinical aide, and physician assistant in the Emergency Department (and other departments) at Bellevue Hospital Center.



BadgerBOTS Robotics Corporation

• Summer Camp Counselor

  • Jun 2013 - Aug 2013



BadgerBOTS FRC Team 1306

• President

  • Sep 2012 - Jun 2013