-- Lead user-centered design effort for multiple business accounts
-- Produce various Information Architecture deliverables, includes: site map; wireframe; personas and scenarios; user flow
-- Work with different Agile development teams and other designers
-- Propose and conduct user research using various methodologies, includes: remote testing; collaborative workshop; card sorting

-- Work on Soarian Clinicals, a software for hospitals, clinics, nurses/physicians to manage clinical workflow
-- Work with different Agile development teams and other designers
-- Design and prototype user interface
-- Design and conduct onsite and remote usability testing; provide design recommendations to the team
-- Conduct interviews with nurses/physicians and observation in the real hospital setting to learn more the design context
-- Design various icons and other visual elements used across the software

-- Collaborated with multiple software development teams to provide design suggestions and created rapid prototypes to reflect design concepts and define the information architecture of new user interfaces
-- Designed and ran usability studies on web applications, service and software products
-- Worked on system usability evaluation
-- Created UI requirement documents

Technologies and skills used: Usability Testing, UI Design and Evaluation, Rapid Prototyping, Information Architecture

Projector-Guided Painting & Virtual Rear Projecting: ran user studies to evaluate existing systems, including designing questionnaires, conducting focus group and coding date gained from observation

Intel Corporation, Ocotillo, Arizona
Software Engineer Intern

Accessed business requirements, developed software interface specifications, designed interfaces for the new software architecture

Technologies and skills used: VB.NET, ASP.NET, MSMQ, HTML, VB6, WMI, JavaScript, CSS, UI design, Organization & communication skills

Current member of ACM SIGCHI, PhillyCHI; CHI 2005 Student Volunteer; CHI 2006 Reviewer

Designing & conducting Usability Studies, Interview, Field Studies, Heuristic Evaluation, Statistical Analysis and Cooperative Evaluation
Expertise in Ethnographic observation and qualitative analysis

Graphics: Expertise in Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash
Web and application: Dreamweaver, HTML, CSS, PHP, Java, JavaScript
Experience in Paper Prototyping, Personas, Scenarios, storyboarding, PowerPoint

Developed vast background in programming and scripting, particularly in the following languages and fundamental knowledge of many others: C/C++, Visual Basic, Java, ASP, SQL, JavaScript, VB Script

CHI 2005 Student Volunteer, Portland, Oregon
CHI 2006 Reviewer for Work-in-Progress and Experience Reports
CHI 2007
Member of ACM SIGCHI, PhillyCHI, CHI*A

Fluent in Mandarin and English

Alumni/Corporate Coordinator for Society of Women Engineer

Human-Computer Interaction:
designed and evaluated a system to generate dynamic recipes based on food inventory

Qualitative Research Methods:
applied grounded theory analysis to field observations of the use of technology in meetings

Human-Robot Interaction:
Studied how people develop social-emotional attachment to domestic robots and how the robots have influenced the household

Master’s Project: (Advisor: Rebecca Grinter)
Study on the difference between how people perceive and interact with robots who perform household chores to generate possible guidelines on designing for emotional attachment for future intelligent robotic products

Human-Computer Interaction:
Paper prototyped and designed evaluation plan for a 3D interactive Web Meeting User interface