Resume

M.S. Human-Computer Interaction Design (HCI/d)

B.A. Web Design and Development

Minor, Japanese Area Studies

Studies focused on marketing, software development, and graphic design.

System architect and interface designer for Cerner Corporation capstone course in mobile software development.

Consulting, street surveying, and data analysis for marketing research capstone project for the city of Weston, MO.

Studied culture and architecture at Kanda University of International Studies, Tokyo, Japan during Fall 2006.

Stories for Change - A design to help veterans returning home from Afghanistan and Iraq overcome moral injuries sustained during deployment by building community understanding and support networks.

UN Global Pulse HunchWorks - A tool to help people gain the critical mass they need to identify and act on humanitarian crises and other global problems. HunchWorks supports creation and analysis of hypotheses, or “hunches,” that may warrant further action by attracting contributors to support, vet, and act on these hunches.

Evanced Solutions - Design strategy work guiding Evanced toward supporting libraries as their role in a community fundamentally changes, helping them reimagine their spaces and become a true community hub.

Foodmunity - An online tool meant to expose people to the differences inherent within communities by connecting strangers over meals in a means to help build communities and spark conversations. This design has been accepted to the CHI 2011 Student Design Competition.

Significant Screwdriver - Independent study project involving Arduino prototyping and data visualization with the IU Critical Interaction Design Research Group in contribution to feminist HCI discourse.

Guided first-year graduate students in the HCI/d Interaction Design Practice course as they tackled challenging interaction design problems.

Five weeks of design work on HunchWorks, a UN Global Pulse project. Compiled and presented design work to Global Pulse and later helped manage a hands-on design workshop UX Week 2011. Concept generation, interaction design, data analysis and synthesis, management of client workshops, and design research for two client projects.

Led user interface (UI) design and development for LINKS, a WPF/WCF .NET desktop application handling internal lead management for 500 active daily users. Role included application theming, user testing, research, wireframing, system architecture, and internal design work including a stylized, live sales screen running on all sales floors.

Design, focus group lead, testing, and implementation of a solution for financing marketers which raised throughput and sales performance 750%.

Design work including digital and print design, branding, and apparel.

Development work including static and dynamic web content, CMS development and implementation in PHP, Wordpress theming and implementation, and jQuery architecture.

UI testing and configuration implementation on the PowerChart team.

Implementation and user support of Cerner solutions for go-live at Baltimore Washington Medical Center.

Interface design drafting for internally developed CAD applications.

Review and analysis of design and usability of websites and internally developed software interfaces.

Design and revision of corporate print materials.

Gross, S., Toombs, A., Wain, J., and Walorski, K. (2011). Foodmunity: designing community interactions over food. Proc. of CHI 2011 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY: ACM Press.

Bardzell, S., Gross, S., Wain, J., Toombs, A., and Bardzell, J. (2011). The Significant Screwdriver: Care, Domestic Masculinity, and Interaction Design. Proc. of British HCI 2011. Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. [short paper]