About
Entrepreneur, designer, and developer who enjoys creating something out of nothing. Currently working on a job board catered to new grads and current students looking for work in web fields (UX Design, Web Design, Frontend Dev, etc.)
Experience
- Event Moderator · Smashing Magazine12-01-2025
Moderating online workshops for Smashing Magazine.
- Web Designer · mEducation Alliance04-01-2023
Working as UX researcher and web designer for a variety of mEducation projects, including the main org website.
- Web Designer · DouxDolci Web Design07-01-2018
Working directly with a variety of clients to design, build, and host custom WordPress websites. Balancing client expectations with their available budget and projected timeline to ensure the project fits their needs. Optimizing website performance, including using modern image formats, CDNs, and code minification. Managing an in-house web hosting solution for clients.
- Manager, Junior System Administrator · Rochester Institute of Technology04-01-2022 – 12-01-2024
Diagnosed and resolved hardware and software issues on-site, providing immediate technical support directly to clients to ensure minimal disruption. Supervised a team of over a dozen IT workers, providing guidance, feedback, and support to ensure strong performance. Acted as a liaison between higher-level managers and workers, streamlining communication and task delegation. Enhanced office efficiency through training sessions and resources to build technical skills, while fostering a collaborative work environment.
- Agile Process Intern · Peraton06-01-2023 – 08-01-2023
Managed a company-wide project redesigning an internal tool, which required balancing the needs of multiple high-level stakeholders. Researched the problem space by conducting in-depth user interviews, built mockups and prototypes, and conducted usability testing to gain feedback and improve initial designs. Followed Agile methodology to spread out work between myself and the rest of my team and keep the project on track.
Education
- Rochester Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree, Human-Centered Computing
- Suffolk County Community CollegeComputer Science
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