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

• User research/design to create mobile context aware technologies.
• Led user research on understanding practices of sharing information in microblogging and other social systems.
• Designed user interfaces and led user research for ground truth data collection trial.
• Led interaction design to showcase team’s sensor technology work.

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

• Researched, designed and prototyped 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.