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Experience
Senior Designer 2 — Nov 2022 – Present
- SFL Scientific, a Deloitte Business
- Applied AI
- Boston, MA (Remote)
- Lead user research, design, and prototyping the UIs for a next-generation autonomous mobile sensor platform. Established north-star vision, explored interactions, functionality, behaviors, and principles on all platforms, then defined a unifying design system to maintain consistency across AR, VR, Web, and mobile. Verify efficacy of solutions with users.
- Communicate value and process of our product to prospective clients, through print documents, videos, motion graphics, and other content.
Senior UX Designer — Sept 2021 – July 2022
- Seegrid
- Industrial Automation
- Pittsburgh, PA (Remote)
- Played major role in researching and conceptualizing a product vision across multiple form factors, including VR and AR.
- Crafted a governance process for designers and developers to leverage and grow a design system.
- Led the design effort on a tablet-based kiosk application.
Senior HCI Engineer — Jan 2015 – Aug 2021
- Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
- Not-for-profit R&D
- Cambridge, MA
- Conceptualized and designed end-to-end over 5 novel software applications from the ground up and re-designed 2 software applications starting from generative user research phase through front-end software development. Application categories included hardware and sensor integration, planning, map-based data visualization. Platforms included Hololens AR, Android mobile, and web.
- Filled a technical capability gap by proactively designing and building a Sketch plug-in that could create click-through prototypes and gather user feedback without relying on Internet connectivity, empowering other designers and benefitting dozens of projects.
- Gave talks, led workshops, classes for ideation, design evaluation, and skill development (i.e., How to perform interaction design).
- Designed and built an internal portfolio describing my group’s capabilities and services, informed by feedback from my group.
Product Designer Consultant — Jan 15–Feb 16 & Jul 18–Mar 19 (part-time)
- Bridge for Billions
- Social impact startup
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Re-designed a platform to support collaborative idea exploration.
- Established design guidelines for future work.
UX Designer & Developer — Jan 2014 – Aug 2014
- Saxton Horne Communications
- Advertising agency
- Salt Lake City, UT
- Designed information architecture, wireframes, and interactive prototypes for several client websites.
- Developed front-end website.
UX Developer Oct 2013–Aug 2014
- Kinpoint, Inc.
- Social network startup
- Provo, UT
- Designed and constructed narrative prototype which contributed to defining product vision, unifying stakeholders and team efforts, and communicating to prospective investors.
Sr. Software Engineer, 2007 (intern) & 2008–2013 (full-time)
- Motorola Solutions, Inc.
- Fortune 500
- Salt Lake City, UT
- Proactively conceptualized, designed, and built a tool for data simulation that management said “proved to be invaluable” for diagnosing performance, discovering bugs, and demonstrating features.
Education
Human-Computer Interaction, M.S. Carnegie Mellon University 2015
Computer Science, B.S. Business Management, Minor Brigham Young University 2008
Awards
Student Design Competition 2015
- ACM Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) Conference
- Seoul, Korea
- Designed a platform empowering refugees to help each other acclimate to their host country.
- Awarded 2nd place out of 70 submissions by international panel of judges.
- Work published and displayed at ACM CHI Conference.
Skills
Interaction Design
- User Flows
- Information Architecture
- Wireframing
- Low- to High-Fidelity Prototyping
- Animation
- Microinteractions
2D Design
- Figma, Sketch
- Adobe Creative Suite
AR/VR Design
- Blender
- Unity
- ShapesXR, Bezi
- Omniverse
Human-centered Research
- Research Planning
- Usability Testing
- Contextual Inquiry
- Design Probes
- Survey Design
Communication
- Miro, Mural, Confluence
- Sketching & Drawing
- Diagramming
- Storyboarding
- Design Specifications
- Video Scripting, Production, Editing
- Motion Graphics
- Photography
- Print Design
- Communication Design
- Geospatial Data Visualization
Design Operations
- Design System Governance
- Plugin Development (Sketch)
Software Development
- Javascript (React, Vue)
- C#
- HTML, CSS, SVG
- Markdown
- Git
- Jira
Language
- Fluent in Mandarin Chinese