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Fidelis Cybersecurity

UI/UX Designer

Location Marker IconWashington, DC

  • Lead the design and development of the Fidelis Design System to unify UI and UX across teams and applications.
  • Design complex, data-driven dashboards and views to aid cyber analysis and response.

Booz Allen Hamilton

UI/UX Designer – Lead Technologist (Associate)

Location Marker IconWashington, DC

National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases (NIAID, NIH)

  • Created the latest visual design for and led the front-end development of NIAID’s flagship public website www.niaid.nih.gov.
  • Architected, designed, and built the NIAID Design System (NDS) to unify front-end design and development experiences across NIAID digital properties.
    • Created a comprehensive library of responsive and accessible components.
    • Created a documentation website providing access to the design system components and further information on design and development with NDS.
    • Integrated NDS with three web products, including NIAID’s flagship public website.
  • Designed and developed the COVID-19 Prevention Network website to help recruit volunteers for COVID-19 vaccine trials. 19K Daily Average Users, 11M+ Page Views
  • Developed the visual theme of the NIAID intranet as part of an end-to-end redesign and migration project (SharePoint to Drupal).
  • Created the Pattern Lab instance for Drupal, using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Twig, which serves as the creative guide and design platform to reduce front-end development time.
  • Built a master prototype to guide the Drupal development team in creating UX-verified layouts.
  • Designed and facilitated an eye tracking study to evaluate and enhance the intranet and public websites’ visual designs.
  • Facilitated a Design Sprint with key stakeholders to improve the overall digital experience of NIAID employees.

Innovation Center – Internal Website (Enterprise-Wide Web App) Redesign

  • Conducted brainstorming sessions with stakeholders to create the design and development roadmap for a four-stage deployment process.
  • Gained project plan approval from directorate leadership for the web app, accessible to 25K+ employees.
  • Produced wireframes and high-fidelity mockups to more effectively display content and improve user comprehension/satisfaction.
  • Managed the UI development and directed interaction choices to bolster site UX.

Red Hat, Inc., Tufts University

Tufts Team Lead & Designer (Senior Capstone Project)

Location Marker IconTufts University

  • Led the design team of the Ansible Galaxy redesign, a web-based IT automation sharing platform.
  • Conducted human factors research to characterize users and identify areas of UX improvement.
  • Employed design principles and methods to develop an improved UI.

Center for Applied Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Tufts University

Human Factors/Engineering Psychology Researcher (Full-time summer/paid, course credit)

Location Marker IconTufts University

  • Explored an extension of the adjustable autonomy concept working with quadrotor drones.
  • Led research and development for an operator monitoring scheme to assess user cognitive state.
  • Designed the experimental protocol for testing the adjustable autonomy concept.
  • Researched a variety of physiological indices for potential operator monitoring input modalities.
  • Coded a Unity simulation of the autonomy experiment and tested participants for data collection/analysis.

Resilinc, Inc.

UI/UX Intern (Full-time summer/paid intern)

Location Marker IconMilpitas, CA

Resilinc is a leading cloud provider of global supply chain risk intelligence and analytics.

  • Developed initial mobile app prototype for a real-time supply chain event monitoring service.
  • Designed an application dashboard to optimize contact interaction and task management.
  • Coded a program utilizing dashboard data to determine the most frequently used app modules.
  • Assisted in determining the style and theme for a new website and designed key branding elements.
  • Created the website (theresiliencycouncil.org) using WordPress, HTML, and CSS.

Audience, Inc.

Engineering/Algorithm Intern (Full-time summer/paid intern)

Location Marker IconMountain View, CA

Audience is a leader in advanced voice and audio processing technologies for mobile devices.

  • Collected, categorized, and documented field data for a machine learning project.
  • Performed research for a new work management process leveraging Amazon Mechanical Turk.
  • Created a detailed manual describing the process for hosting audio files on Mechanical Turk.
  • Prepared an informational presentation for internal education/training purposes.