Methodologies
- Thinkalouds
- Contextual Inquiry
- Heuristic Evaluation
- Prototyping (Hi-Fi & Lo-Fi)
- Wireframing
- Persona Design
- Card Sorts
- Affinity Diagramming
- Keystroke-Level Modeling
Technologies
- Javascript & Ajax
- CSS & (X)HTML
- Ruby on Rails
- PHP
- MySQL & Oracle
- C
- Java
- Actionscript 3.0
- Standard ML
Software
- Photoshop
- Flash
- Visio
- Illustrator
- Subversion
- Dreamweaver
- Eclipse
- Camtasia
Coursework
- HCI Methods
- Basic Interaction Design
- Software Architecture for UI
- Pen-Based Computing
- Communication Design
- Cognitive Psychology
- Programming Language Theory
- Algorithm Design & Analysis
Resume
I’m currently looking for a summer 2010 internship in UX design or research.
Education
B.S. Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University (May 2011)
- Minor in Communication Design
- GPA: 3.6/4.0
- Awards: Cambridge International Fellowship, SCS Dean’s List
- Created and taught “Techniques for Web Interfaces,” a course involving web interface design principles and advanced CSS techniques.
work experience
User Interface Intern at Knewton
May 2009 – Aug. 2009 in New York, NY
- Served a dual role as interaction designer and front-end engineer. Helped interview interaction designers and front-end engineers (both full-time and intern candidates) and extensively trained new front-end engineers.
- Created visual style guides to be used by contracted freelancers.
- Laid the foundations of a lightweight Javascript UI library, and wrote a thorough set of documentation for my implementations.
Research Assistant at Cylab Usable Privacy & Security
Jan. 2008 – May 2009 in Pittsburgh, PA
- Worked on several projects that were presented at CHI ’08 and ’09.
- Helped build usable privacy tools for a location-sharing product. Assisted in the design and evaluation of three user studies and played a critical role in designing interface prototypes.
- Assisted in the design of a new user-centric security permissions interface. Conducted user studies, critiqued the interface, and helped solve several design issues.
Web Intern at Speedy Media Group
Nov. 2006 – Dec. 2006 in Birmingham, AL
- Worked alongside a web media firm to revamp existing web sites.
- Primarily performed front-end duties, sometimes converting hundreds of lines of archaic Javascript to fully-functional CSS equivalents, improving load time, accessibility, and usability by huge factors.