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resume

 

current: meta user experience (UX) design team

current: instagram UX

UX design team, Instagram well-being, social impact, product designer & content designer - menlo park, california

UX design team, Instagram well-being, mental health team, content designer - remote

facebook UX

UX design team, communities product group, product content designer - san francisco, california

UX design team, facebook groups, product content strategist - menlo park, california

  • Build impactful global designs working as 1/3 of the UX Design team of Content Design, User Research & Product Design

  • Work closely with cross-functional product partners like engineering and product management to ship high-quality, end to end product experiences to the global market

  • Manage the creation of solutions that benefit every individual user by owning the localization, internationalization and comprehensibility work for my products

  • Champion user empathy by researching our impact in the field and using this to influence product decisions

  • Foundationally understand the entire Facebook product ecosystem and work systems-wide to uphold and create standards to create a seamless user experience 

education

University of California, Berkley Extension

  • Certificate from Berkley’s UI/UX & Frontend Dev bootcamp

  • Three nights a week, around 9 hours of classes a week and 30 hours of supplemental projects

  • Play with my final project here

Tufts University class of 2018

  • Bachelor of Science in Cognitive & Brain Sciences and Entrepreneurial Leadership

  • magna cum laude

  • coursework: Human Computer Interaction, Psychological Statistics, Computer Programming, Web Design, Business Development, Entrepreneurial Finance

Wellesley College 2014 - 2015

St. George’s School class of 2014

  • high school cum laude society member

  • awarded headmasters prize upon graduation

skills

  • communication: understanding even the most complex problems and being able to help other people understand them just as well

  • empathy: knowing the emotions, sentiment and understanding of others — and being able to use this to collaborate on diverse teams

  • inclusion: the best collaboration happens when the best minds can be involved and I will always make that space

  • user-centered product design:

    • prototyping tools like sketch, adobe, proton, figma (& always learning new ones)

  • google suite

    • I am literally a spreadsheet savant

    • have made MANY a deck

  • working technical literacy

    • understanding of C++, jQuery, JavaScript, HTML, CSS

    • high level knowledge of several forms of machine learning

 

internships, past experience

Tufts University Computer Science Department Human Computer Interaction Teaching Assistant. Spring, 2018

  • Work through a curriculum with over 100 students on the basics of human-computer / human-interface interaction

  • Mentor on UX and UI design and how to incorporate this thinking into every component of my student’s projects

  • Lecture on the Content Strategy practice and how to start a career in UI design

Acenna Data, Cambridge MA Product & Brand Strategy. Spring, 2018

  • Research and develop new leads for the innovative B2B machine learning software that increases sales productivity

  • Create and produce content to develop brand voice and brand awareness; re-structuring and implementing blog and website pages, strategizing podcasts, formatting brand material, configuring the media plan, and producing content

Havas Media, Boston MA Digital Investments Summer Intern 2017

  • Worked on all aspects of media execution, including tracking, reporting, budget checks, data analysis and planning

  • Strategized and implemented a new non-profit business project which surpassed fundraising goals of $17,000

  • Ideated original optimized VBA tracking documents to streamline reporting correspondence by 60%; now in practice

HireHand, London UK Operations Summer Intern 2016

  • Personally recruited, screened, and profiled 50 freelance partners; then on-boarded them to the software platform

  • Collaborated in the structuring and administration of an exponentially growing start-up company through market research and critical understanding of available talent

  • Successfully implemented a new, highly-focused and targeted brand marketing strategy across all social platforms

    I also have taught leadership, ceramics, studied magnetic nano particles in Madrid, spearheaded massive diversity & inclusion policies and practices @ tufts, & some other stuff while trying to figure out who I was supposed to be.