I work full-time on our design system team, Meridian. Most days I repair bug fixes and implement enhancements to our components usually as requests from customers in Media. More fun work that I've led has included added accessibility checks to our Playwright tests, adding draggable rows to our Table component, and co-developing a new View Toggle component. I've also noodled on a revised contribution process for external teams to work with us to add desired in whatever capacity they can collaborate with us and have mentored an interna and a co-op for a semester. When I'm not working to improve Meridian, I'm helping with early career recruitment or organizing a lunch or event for the NY office as the co-office manager.

As a student worker, most of the tasks given to me were administrative. I would receive phone calls from parents or students, prepare materials for admissions events and presentations, give families tours of our facilities, maintain the website we used to coordinate student tour guide scheduling, and calculate credits awarded from high school transcripts.

Working on IBM's UXE team that focuses on prototyping new components and patterns for the internal-facing side of the IBM design system Carbon

Engineering design thinking is the University of Cincinnati's general engineering course that all first years have to take before taking discipline specific courses. It focuses on teaching students foundational skills for engineering including project management, teamwork, leadership, problem solving, and basic physics concepts and coding skills. I tutor on average 20 first year engineering students weekly in Labview, Python, MATLAB, statistics, physics, electricity, and VBA. I also mentor underclassman engineering students in class with nontechnical modules for professional development like succeeding at the career fair and creating great resumes. I also directed a review session initiative for all engineering first years to receive pre-exam tutoring by PTA's. We were able to offer students both online and in person options for final exam review.

As a P&D co-op, I was on the design system team Meridian. Our users were requesting a modal component, and it was a great way for me to touch all ends of the component life cycle. I led research for the new modal component with stakeholders such as developers and customer representatives using a fleshed out research guide, AB testing, and workflow observation. I designed and prototyped the modal component and user interview workflows in Figma and used the audit of existing modals for direction. I coded the modal component in Stencil.js with live examples and extensive guidelines to documentation site for user reference.

During my time, I also worked on an intern team of 7 people including myself. We were tasked with renovating an existing Grafana dashboard that displays the application health. We needed to get the dashboard to intake more data sources and make a new system to show a comprehensive score that would represent the health of the applications. My job, however, was to represent the UI better with a new look and new experience. I did user interviews with software developers, site reliability engineers, management, and business development peoples to understand how BRIDGE (the dashboard's name) need to be changed. I designed a prototype in Figma to show stakeholders and interviewee's and even found a way to use our design system for the new dashboard by creating a custom Grafana plugin alongside a software engineering co-op. My background on Meridian and as a software engineering co-op previously made crafting the dashboard solution much easier. While on my intern team, I also acted as the project manager. I set up meetings with stakeholders, led ceremonies, scheduled retros and socials, and created tickets for our Jira board.