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Directed research, capstone, and applied product work.
HCDE 2026 Capstone Award
53.8% of surveyed residents did not know a food bank served their neighborhood. The campaign built on that finding was adopted into the food bank's outreach roadmap.
My role Project Manager, Phase 2. Owned scope and delivery across a four person team, ran stakeholder interviews, directed video production, and built an LLM assisted workflow to segment and prioritize outreach targets.
A two sided walkway guide routing international visitors with no English literacy and no data connection, adapted from the Beijing 2022 signage model.
My role Designed the walkway guide in three station variants. Ran observational field research during a live venue surge plus a stakeholder interview with a Sound Transit Project Manager.
RESNA 2025
A guide dog handler pack where every control is operable without sight. Redesigned on testing feedback and submitted to the RESNA 2025 Student Design Challenge.
My role Research and prototyping contributor. Ran moderated usability testing with a visually impaired participant and drove iterations from that feedback. Team lead: Sanmathi Prabakar.
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I finished a BS in Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington, College of Engineering, in June 2026.
Alongside the degree I spent three years at Apple as a Sales Experience Consultant. That work was the same one I do in research: figure out what someone actually needs, then build a solution around it rather than around the product I happened to be holding. I was the top performing Business Engagement specialist in 2025.
I am now moving toward UX research and research driven strategy. The thread through all of it has been the same: understanding how people think, and finding where a system fails them. I like learning about users and their use cases more than I like any particular tool.
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Research, synthesis, build, and handoff. The order matters more than the method.
Qualitative and quantitative in the same pass: moderated interviews and field observation alongside survey instruments, with LLM assisted workflows to code transcripts and segment audiences at speed.
Synthesis into audience profiles, journey maps, and one problem statement the team commits to. Scope is set here, and the roadmap either holds or it does not.
Component systems and interactive prototypes in Figma. CAD and physical prototyping when the product is hardware. Fidelity chosen to answer the open question.
Usability testing, iteration against real feedback, and documentation the next owner can pick up without me. Scope, timeline, stakeholders, clean handoff.
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I am looking for roles in UX research and research driven strategy.
Off the clock
Every table is a new problem. Read the layout, find the constraint, work out a line to it. Same thing design rewards: iteration, and being honest about what is not working.
Off the clock
Simple one. I will travel for a good meal, and I plan trips around where I want to eat.
Off the clock
I like a good challenge. The view at the top is proof of the work it took to get there.
