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.