Contextual Inquiry
Card Sorting
Affinity Diagrams
Focus Groups
Personas
Storyboarding
Surveys/Questionnaires

Think-Aloud User Studies
Heuristic Evaluation
Cognitive Walkthrough
GOMS (KLM)
Wizard of Oz
Prototyping

Masters of HCI, Aug. 2007
Cumulative GPA: 4.04

Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science, June 2004
Cumulative GPA 3.5 | Major GPA: 3.7

• First rotation in Long Range Business Planning group: Market research/analysis on next generation user interfaces.
• Second rotation in Intel Research Lab Berkeley. User research/design to create environmental mobile sensing platform to support social action.

• Currently researching and designing a new online system that allows researchers in the Pittsburgh medical community find collaborators with appropriate skills and interests.

• Designed and drove UI tools to open language support to customers on the Windows/.NET Framework platforms.
• Managed all components and APIs dealing with custom locales and localepertinent information for upcoming Windows/.NET framework releases.

• Responsible for testing Natural Language Support components added to Windows Vista.
• Developed new testing tools/frameworks for the team
• Developed Windows application for developers to run regression tests before checking in code changes or new features.
• Led test team members on worldwide release of new UI-based tool. Involved applications of C#, C, and Visual Studio.NET.

• Created a virtual reality simulation for the Lego Mindstorms Robotics Kit.
• Designed system to help students learn engineering concepts through graphical programming and also enable long distance collaboration between students in different locations. Technologies used were Labview, Robolab, and VRML.

• Implemented a virtual book viewer using a projection of the text onto a flat surface.
• Designed and developed features to detect a user’s hand motions to indicate page turning, highlighting, book-marking, etc. This project involved applications of Open GL, HTML, and C++.