PORTFOLIO

TripAdvisor


#InterfaceDesign #UserFlows

StuffSwap


#UserCenteredDesign #Iteration

Refrigerator System


#UserCenteredDesign #ContextualInquiry

WCMC Library Mobile Site


#InformationArchitecture #MobileDesign

Freelance Work


#GraphicDesign

Best Practices in Web Design


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EXPERIENCE

May 2012 - August 2012

Boston, MA

TripAdvisor

User Interface Design Intern

‣ Designed interface for a personalized restaurant recommendation system
‣ Created user flows, reports and presentations for internal use
‣ Built portions of the UI of the system using HTML, CSS, and MooTools

June 2011 - August 2011

New York, NY

Weill Cornell Medical Center

Web Design Intern

‣ Redesigned and created a Movable Type-based website for the Myra Mahon Patient Resource Center
‣ Designed and created the front-end of a mobile version of the WCMC Library website
‣ Developed signage templates using Keynote
‣ Designed stationary in Mac Mail for the WCMC Library newsletter

December 2011 - Present

Ithaca, NY

Social Media Lab, Cornell University

Web Designer and Developer

‣ Redesign the front-end of the Social Media Lab website
‣ Modularize and add to the functionality of the back-end of the website using PHP and mySQL

February 2011 - January 2012

Ithaca, NY

Cornell Information Technologies

Help Desk Consultant

‣ Troubleshoot technical issues over the phone, via e-mail, to walk-in customers, and remotely via screen-sharing software
‣ Provide technical support for CIT services for students, faculty, staff, and other members of the Cornell community

August 2011 - December 2011

Ithaca, NY

Information Science Department, Cornell University

Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Web Design and Programming

‣ Led a weekly section of 20 students in topics including HTML, CSS, User-Centered Design, and PHP
‣ Led weekly grading sessions of 22 other teaching assistants to ensure consistent grading and high quality of comments
‣ Develop lesson plans several times a semester for all teaching assistants to use
‣ Grade assignments, exams, and projects for 115 students

February 2011 - Present

Ithaca, NY

Social Media Lab, Cornell University

Research Assistant

‣ Assist in developing an experiment to examine how people interpret disclosure on Facebook from the first-person perspective.
‣ Create text to be used in experiment.

April 2011 - January 2012

Ithaca, NY

Cornell for LIVESTRONG

Co-Webmaster

‣ Work on re-designing and implementing a website for Cornell for LIVESTRONG
‣ Collaborate with president of Cornell for LIVESTRONG to gather images and design information architecture of website

Campus Involvement

‣ External Relations Chair, Information Science Student Association (ISSA)
‣ Treasurer & Founding Member, Cornell User Experience Design (CUxD)

Skills

‣ Interface Design // User Testing ‣ XHTML // CSS // PHP // Java // Javascript // SQL // basic knowledge of JQuery
‣ Adobe Photoshop // GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) // MAMP // Aptana TextWrangler // Coda // myBalsamiq // Cyberduck
‣ Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Outlook) // Apple iWork (Keynote, Pages)

ACADEMICS

Mathematics

‣ Discrete Structures
‣ Linear Algebra with Applications
‣ Calculus I
‣ Calculus II
‣ Introductory Statistics

Life Sciences

‣ Evolutionary Biology
‣ Introduction to Biology

Liberal Arts

‣ Anthropology of Parenting*
‣ Greek Mythology
‣ The Reading of Poetry
‣ Puzzles and Paradoxes

Language

‣ Reading and Writing for Heritage Speakers of Russian

Human-Centered Systems

‣ Introduction to Rapid-Prototying and Physical Computing*
‣ Human-Computer Interaction Design Studio
‣ Advanced Human-Computer Interaction Design
‣ Human-Computer Interaction Design
‣ Human Perception: Applications to Computer Graphics, Art, and Visual Display
‣ Communication and Technology
‣ Deception in the Networked Age
‣ Cognitive Psychology

Information Systems

‣ Data-Driven Web Applications
‣ Intermediate Web Design and Programming
‣ Object-Oriented Programming and Data Structures
‣ Introduction to Web Design and Programming
‣ Introduction to Computing Using Java

Social Systems

‣ Digital Business Strategy
‣ Computing Cultures*
‣ Networks II*
‣ Networks
‣ Inventing an Information Society
‣ Introduction to Sociology

*Currently Enrolled