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Resume

Jan 2023-Current

Design Strategist 

  • Spearheaded the development of a customer experience design strategy incorporating emerging trends in the emergency management field

  • Lead the implementation of comprehensive customer feedback collection system-surveys and data collection templates for real time use-leading to a deeper understanding of customer needs and satisfaction levels

  • Responsible for developing workshops and project plans that aligned with business KPIs

  • Collaborated with stakeholders to establish partnerships that built out a new line of effort within FEMA

  • Communicate strategy and ensured organizational buy-in by leading workshops, developing executive level briefs and reports, and designing templates.

  • Utilize collaboration and design tools, including Mural and Adobe Creative Suite to create personas, process flows, journey maps, and service design blueprints in a client-ready deliverable format

  • Facilitate workshops and interviews to identify, explore, and comprehend pain points and opportunities using cognitive walkthroughs assessments

  • Create internal training programs, facilitator guides, and standard operating procedures to ensure consistency

  • Provide human-centered design guidance, expertise, and project management for the implementation of new front-end displays for My Navy HR systems

  • Manage software alternative analysis, concept of operations, and technical deep dive discussions to ensure scoping for software transformation efforts is in alignment with policy

Jan 2019-Oct 2022

Human Factors Engineer

  • Conducted requirements-gathering interviews; designed and implemented user surveys; facilitated contextual inquiries and user tests of prototypes

  • Planned and facilitated workload assessment for substantiated solutions for displays

  • Generated and implemented user-centered design by creating user research methods, incorporating data, customer feedback, and technical risks and opportunities

  • Designed low-fidelity and high-fidelity prototypes to investigate user behavior via subject testing

  • Developed and analyzed existing naval platform interfaces to ensure high-quality system design with respect to human limit conditions in the aviation environment based on usability, operability, and workload assessment and performance assessments

  • Conducted qualitative and quantitative data analyses from focus groups, surveys, and user testing

Jan 2020-May 2020

Manufacturing & 
Quality Engineer

  • A competitively positioned role designed to build engineering and quality management skills

  • Facilitated and planned in supplier quality improvement plan by developing and implementing vendor performance metrics and reporting

  • Created process documents to ensure accurate reporting metrics which improved performance metrics reports

  • Participated as a manufacturing and quality representative in several program reviews and milestone events

Education

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University | Master’s Degree

Master's of Science in Human Factors; concentration in Systems Engineering 

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University | Bachelor's Degree

Bachelor's of Science in Human Factors 

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