I am the user experience specialist for VPGame's Esports Research & Development. We launched vpesports.com on January 4th, 2018 and have grew to being in the top 10 weekly total users for Esports media websites. VPEsports receives over 3 million pageviews per month. Our team is small and I where multiple hats each day.
Summary of responsibilites:

• Organized our website strategy and metric goals
• Coordinated our content strategy for our editors
• Google Analytics and A/B testing expert
• Sketched -> Paper prototyped -> Wireframes -> low-fidelity -> Usability Testing -> High Fidelity Designs
• Determined organization color palette and typography
• Project manager for site feature development
• Developed production code with HTML, CSS, Javascript, and PHP
• Grew our Facebook page from nothing to over 100k likes
• Schedule memes and giveaways to grow social media following
• Manage interns and mentor them in UX projects
• Site SEO manager through google webmaster tools to index our site and incrementally improve our search traffic
• UX research on Esports enthusiasts to guide site features
• Implemented and designed our weekly newsletter
• Organize weekly editor stand ups
• Participate in meetings with Chinese management
• Plan, scope, and manage large scale projects such as creating a Dota 2 interactive analytics tool, ethnographic research into Chinese esports enthusiasts, and website redesigns

Short term contracts to do research on Xbox systems and accessories and Visual Studio Team Services.
Summary of responsibilities:

• Usability testing
• Survey Analysis
• Card Sorting
• Literature reviews

Won $20000 through writing an essay and traveled solo to the countries of India, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Hong Kong, China, Tibet, Japan, Mongolia, Russia, Czech Republic, France, Belgium, and Ireland.

Xbox Hardware develops Xbox One consoles, controllers, and accessories. As a design researcher, I primarily designed and moderated usability tests on Xbox One hardware and accessories including the XboxElite Controller and the Xbox One S
Summary of responsibilities:

• Design, moderate, analyze, and report usability tests
• Survey design, interviews, market research, competitive analysis
• Large scale (50+ participant) customer acceptance testing
• Recruitment profiling

Virtuoso is the leading luxury travel advisor network. As a UX researcher, my focus was integrating UX research into a, agile environment to provide high value, actionable findings.
Summary of responsibilities:

• Design , moderate, & report usability tests
• Product team analytics and A/B testing lead
• Competitive Analysis
• Persona development
• Wireframes & mockups of homepage redesign and mobile application
• Photoshop photo touchups
• Internal accounting tool design & usability

• 2015 Bonderman Fellowship winner

• 2013 Virginia Sexton award for exemplary research in Psychology
• 2013 Don Lehr teaching award