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Below comprehensively represents:
September 2015 - June 2019
Minor: Design
GPA: 3.5
Drafted research proposal documents to an external Institutional Review Board for clinical usability testing of some aspects of a hearing software toolkit called the Open Speech Platform (OSP).
All work produced in this position is considered strictly confidential.
Other responsibilities were similar to the previous position.
Redesigned documentation of a software toolkit, called the Open Speech Platform (OSP), to help researchers and audiologists harness the toolkit for hearing and healthcare-related investigations.
Communicated with a web designer to ensure alignment and resolution of server-side issues with the OSP Wordpress website.
Redesigned and managed the OSP website with minimal direction.
Gathered and published staff members' bios on the OSP website.
Created an initial Discord forum to bridge OSP-related communication between staff members, researchers, and other people using OSP.
Prototyped initial mockups of the OSP website and different functionality aspects of the toolkit.
Drafted research proposal documents to UC San Diego Institutional Review Board for data collection.
Assisted student member and founder in editing posters for two upcoming conferences.
Facilitated meeting scheduling and requests from research collaborators, on founder's behalf.
Supported internal testing efforts on software features to reveal important bugs and issues to software developers.
Created a public WordPress website to showcase a subgroup's projects, publications, and research processes.
Created 5 versions of Figma mockups that informed 5 of 9 versions of published website pages based on two subgroup founders' feedback, initial information architecture, existing online inspiration, and interface components.
Managed project activities with two students via Asana tasks and weekly meetings.
Learned admin interface of Wordpress and plugins to inform priorities on website development activities.
Interacted with the co-founders on website progress and feedback via slide decks and ad-hoc meetings.
Documented research findings of ethnographic experiences in an afterschool program at Town and Country Learning Center (TCLC), which informed decisions for kid-friendly, supervisor-approved activities and interactions for 10-15 kids.
Edited a 6 and a 1/2 minute, rap-themed video to capture the kids' activities within TCLC, in which continued improvement from classmates' feedback garnered unanimous applause and praise from the kids and supervisor upon final presentation
Supervised video and audio equipment usage to empower 4 other teammates and at least 5 kids at TCLC to produce 300 video and audio clips for video editing.
Disseminated knowledge related to career strengths and competencies to 30 students in an academic human development course, in collaboration with 3 career coaches.
Presented 2 different topics during class related to LinkedIn best practices and an online self-help interviewing platform.
Facilitated group session activities with 9-10 students regarding their project on 3 specific career competencies and strengths.
Developed an award-winning exercise mat from research and prototyping methods within a team of 9 in a Design-a-thon competition to enable people with Parkinson's to resolve their issues with gait and personal agency.
Gathered findings and insights about Parkinson's Disease from secondary research and in-person interviews that classified 3 core problem spaces from a group participatory design sprint.
Ideated upon focused problem spaces based on gathered research and inspiration of existing solutions that enabled rapid prototyping and pivoting of 3 different solutions to explore.
Documented hundreds of photos and at least 30 video clips of research sessions and team design process to further inform research insights, multiple pivoting decisions, and content strategy for 5 project deliverables.
Presented work publicly within 2 Design-a-thon workshops and a final presentation showcase, which translated to a $2,000 award for first-place ranking in the competition.
Designed a high-fidelity, interactive mockup of a website in a team of 4 within an information architecture course for the CEO of a 3D-printing startup company, which served as a platform for automating customer orders for 3-D printed parts.
Documented prioritized needs and functionalities of the website based on client expectations, interviews, and competitive analysis of existing websites, which informed the team of 3 personas, 6 user scenarios, and several use cases to base website design decisions on.
Drafted the information architecture and sketches of the website to follow design considerations of the ordering process of 3D printed parts, order history, and other main features of the website.
Iterated on wireframes of the website that streamlined the ordering process experience and clarified information about available services and materials, informed from feedback from mentor critiques, client feedback, and user testing.
Designed the digital interface of a physical movie-theater kiosk called Cinemunch with a team of 4 in a prototyping course that would enable moviegoers to order movie tickets and food in one place.
Generated user testing findings and insights for kiosk and digital interface features, based on research artifacts, sketches of solution features and user flow, and rapid prototyping.
Converted user testing feedback, design specifications, and visual style guides into the interaction design of 2 different wireframe prototypes of the kiosk digital interface and features, which would be implemented as a digital screen on a laptop installed within the physical kiosk.
Spearheaded visual design efforts to generate and finalize physical kiosk aesthetics, digital interface functionality, final presentation slide deck, and a marketing poster that received positive reviews from teaching assistants, and the professor.
Conducted fieldwork within the local campus area to observe and investigate the normal behavior of vehicles and pedestrians, with a total of 85 annotated observations, 341 images, and approximately 50 video clips gathered for analysis.
Annotated digitized research data to assist project facilitators with data gathering, consolidation, and synthesis of relevant issues to transportation, which contributed to team prototyping and discussion within ideation workshops.
Captured additional photos of team sketches for potential autonomous vehicles (AVs), the interior design of AVs, and personal items carried that informed final research findings and presentations related to robotaxis and micro-mobility topics.
Made early iterations of a Hyundai driving app as well as features for an entertainment dashboard hub system using Figma, which paved the way for more higher fidelity designs for user testing and project handoff.
Advised 10-20 students per week during drop-in advising hours to help answer career-related questions, review job/graduate school application materials, and share relevant resources offered at the Career Center, which empowered students to resolve their career questions.
Presented in weekly/bi-weekly outreach programs for various campus groups to disseminate relevant and informed career information regarding resume writing, dressing up for interviews, and several other career-related topics.
Compiled spreadsheets of requested quantities and preferences for 49 different types of giveaway items based on responses from 11 staff members, which enabled the executive director of the Career Center to gain an informed understanding on how to establish a budget around giveaway item requests.
Designed a hi-fidelity Figma prototype of a mobile app with a team of 7 called Shoperone to help seniors with their grocery shopping by connecting them to assistive volunteers, which won 2nd place in a fictitious Shark Tank Challenge.
Guided team members on best practices for user research, initial design artifacts, and prototyping, which ensured that research and design efforts are understandable, operationalized, and backed by group consensus.
Conducted interviews and competitive analysis to inform problem spaces and existing services that were most relevant to seniors.
Contributed to team discussions of solution feature ideation and wireframing of low to medium fidelity wireframe prototypes of the app.
Documented user testing results and user research to be implemented into the iteration of our prototype and final presentation slide deck.
Managed the entire production of a commercial video, from scriptwriting and direction of production shoots to media equipment management and post-production, which was successfully incorporated and played during the team's final presentation.
Managed a team of 7 to collaborate with Mundo Gardens, a non-profit community garden in National City, to create wooden signage and a drip irrigation system to resolve volunteer and garden management issues.
Scheduled regular in-person meetings with the executive director and other volunteers that enabled research and design efforts to be consistently aligned and supported from stakeholders.
Prioritized signage and drip irrigation solution ideas based on interviews, identified problem spaces, stakeholder feedback, online inspiration, and a Pugh chart for objective design decision making.
Ideated different forms of signage by making Google Slides and live physical construction and prototyping of wooden boards to represent and test the potential design of signage.
Generated feedback from 6-7 participants during user testing sessions using user testing parameters and materials that tested 3 key aspects of the different signage prototypes produced.
Implemented documents that outlined sustainable production and maintenance for the signage and drip irrigation solutions for Mundo Gardens to use in the future.
Compiled a 78 page final report to document the team's end-to-end process within our collaboration with Mundo Gardens.
Developed an app service for woodworkers and customers called Fingo that make services for custom wooden furniture more accessible and transparent, with a team of 5 and within a startup studio design course.
Generated competitive analyses and storyboards to define and ideate upon our problem space.
Executed Google Ad campaigns, online A/B user testing, and service enactments to evaluate and iterate on our app concept based on success metrics, data mining results, and live feedback from task analysis paper prototyping sessions.
Developed high-fidelity wireframes of the mobile app prototype that reflected desired needs and value proposition models from user research and design specifications.
Managed the entire video production process of a final marketing video to persuade investment of the development of the Fingo app via a Kickstarter page, which enabled the team to win 2nd place out of 6 different groups in a fictitious money investment game challenge.
Produced fundraising videos that justified what Yonder Dynamics needed to help support their endeavors for constructing competition-ready rovers, which contributed to the $7,300 funding on Kickstarter in 2018 and $1,950 funding on Indiegogo in 2019.
Edited videos of the Systems Acceptance Review (SAR) of the rover that demonstrated how the rover is ready for the competition, which enabled UC San Diego to be featured as one of the selected teams for the URC 2018.
Recorded hundreds of video clips to direct coverage of the student organization's construction of the rover and its physical capabilities related to URC's tasks.
Coordinated scheduled times, locations, and required shots with the business lead, project manager, and other student executive members to ensure coverage of the requirements outlined in the University Rover Challenge (URC) guidelines to showcase the rover.
Produced a total of 10 event promo and recap videos for marketing coordinators and directors related to various student-centric on-campus events, which have been publicized within ASCE’s Facebook event pages and YouTube channel.
Directed production shoots related to 6 produced videos with more ambitious marketing initiatives for advertising smaller student events.
Directed production shoots related to more ambitious marketing initiatives for advertising smaller student events.
Supported tabling, poster-hanging, and other marketing initiatives to garner engagement from hundreds of students, which ensured interest and student attendance at various ASCE-hosted events.
Called UCSD alumni to listen to their feedback about their undergraduate/graduate experiences and to ask them to pledge for a specific university fund to support.
Educated alumni about the different funds and organizations on campus to promote a philanthropic understanding about giving back to the university.
Recorded results of calls to a digital database to help supervisors keep track of different categories that alumni fall under based on their donation statuses.
Returned voicemails to alumni that did not initially respond to student calls for outreach.
Senior Producer, September 2018 - June 2019
Produced videos related to event promos, event recaps, student projects, and student films for various on-campus groups, student representatives, and clients.
Mentored different TTV members on using/managing media equipment and applying best practices for post-production to ensure proper media equipment lending and more efficient video editing workflows.
Spearheaded video editing of projects with greater stakes and impact within the discretion of admin members and in tandem with Associated Students Concerts and Events (ASCE).
Producer, September 2017 - June 2018
Produced videos related to event promos, event recaps, student projects, and student films for various on-campus groups, student representatives, and clients.
Handled media equipment from volunteering opportunities in production shoots for student projects to ensure the successful execution of desired video footage for other directors to use.
Acted in some production shoots for student projects to fulfill desired roles from directors' scripts.
Communicated with TTV executive members on updates with media drafts for different clients.
Edited videos for directors within student teams during 48-hour film festivals, a reoccurring TTV event where student teams are to produce a specifically-themed video within a 48 hour weekend.
Intern, September 2016 - June 2017
Learned general concepts and basics of scriptwriting, camera equipment usage, cinematography, sound, and video editing to be applied to initial projects, which contributed to the creation of 3 different video projects to be screened.
Directed a film production of one of the first videos ever produced through scriptwriting, actor recruitment, media equipment management, execution of production shoots, and post-production video editing, which led to the video's successful screening as a final deliverable to be initiated into the second phase of the internship program.
Edited earlier video projects through the usage of Adobe Premiere Pro to be published on YouTube.
Videos as Sources of Work
Moderated and organized a list of email recipients within the student organization by email alphabetical order with strict confidentiality and high fidelity.
Sent final email drafts for mass email announcements to over 200 people within an email list to inform students of General Body Meetings (GBMs) and updates.
Assisted check-in and recordings of all competition teams during the commencement of a MakeAThon event, managed 3-D printers for participants to use during competition, and designed plaque awards to present to sponsor representatives of the event.
Hack-a-thon Video - This was a video created a long time ago to illustrate an event recap at one of the student 3-D printing Hack-a-thons.
Coordinated with group members in weekly meetings, conference calls, and scheduling to actively discuss current topics and to organize for future events.
Informed and persuaded other students in person to sign important forms concerning local and state-wide issues and to help fundraise for the organization.
Databased contact information from petition and pledge forms completed by students into privately shared Google spreadsheets and online CALPIRG servers.
Phone banked students with other volunteers using secured contact forms to notify students of future volunteering opportunities.
