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Things I do, sorted by how cool I think they are

Logistics service

Logistics service

Research and design a currently secret logistics service at IBM

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Civic Hacking

Civic Hacking

What’s a better way for folks to get involved in civic hacking?

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Food Trust

Food Trust

My goal with the Food Trust team is to align our design, business, and user research to create an experience as innovative as it is delightfully effective.

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Blockchain service

Blockchain service

Creating the UI for a secret blockchain service at IBM

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IBM

IBM

I currently lead design research and contribute to interaction and interface design with IBM Blockchain Solutions for food safety applications.

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Cloud Infrastructure

Cloud Infrastructure

Cross-portfolio research, design, and development

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Virtual server monitoring

Virtual server monitoring

Leading the design and research on a new offering for infrastructure monitoring.

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Key Protect

Key Protect

Design and research for a new key management service for IBM Cloud

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Quantum Experience

Quantum Experience

In mid-2016, my team of five worked with IBM Q to design the in-person experience, then called the Quantum Experience, for visitors to the quantum computing facilities at the TJ Watson Research Center.

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Personalized Learning on the Cloud

Personalized Learning on the Cloud

In 2015 I worked on a project we called Personalized Learning on the Cloud, which eventually found its way into the then-new offering Watson Education.

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Research artifact boilerplates

Research artifact boilerplates

I wanted to create things to more easily start doing research with or reference for communicating research in a valuable way outside of the design researchers’ domain.

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Design Thinking

Design Thinking

Part of being a design researcher is helping folks articulate their thoughts and sharing them with their team and stakeholders.

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Magic Window

Magic Window

Testing how people would perceive and use natural interaction affordances in a live remote collaboration space

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ProtoCity

ProtoCity

Helping citizens prototype and actively build their future city

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Array of Things

Array of Things

How things big and small can be made accessible through a common network and identifiable as an array of networked devices.

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WALT

WALT

Community empowerment centered around permanently affordable housing

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Gleaning research

Gleaning research

Modeling the design space of gleaning in order to better inform design decisions for food security and other civic services

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Open Austin

Open Austin

Leading organizational efforts on projects, onboarding new members, and helping the organization succeed

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GTMobile

GTMobile

I designed and built many mobile web applications as part of a suite of utilities that benefit the Georgia Tech community

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Prima Atlanta

Prima Atlanta

Atlanta’s Prima printing company hired me to optimize their e-commerce business. Within months I became an indispensable tech lead to the whole company.

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Oriental Weavers USA

Oriental Weavers USA

Designed and built the website for the U.S. division of the world’s largest producer of carpet and area rugs

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Rapid Prototyping Curriculum

Rapid Prototyping Curriculum

Repackaging a rapid prototyping curriculum for new audiences

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Waggle

Waggle

Interactive environment game for learning about bees’ waggle dance

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Mobile Reporting

Mobile Reporting

Boilerplate code and design for creating mobile reporting apps

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Gleanhub

Gleanhub

What happens to unsold or just-out-of-date food? Waste. Gleanhub could prevent this by connecting businesses to hungry people.

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Unlock the Box

Unlock the Box

Voting access projects for Georgia

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Fresh for Less

Fresh for Less

Helping communities in need of healthier food options to gain access

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eDemocracy

eDemocracy

Increase and improve the transparency and fairness of democratic processes and institutions at home and abroad

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Go Grow Atlanta

Go Grow Atlanta

We helped urban farmers and gardeners access and engage in the drafting process of Atlanta’s first Urban Agriculture Zoning Ordinance

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Digital English Avenue

Digital English Avenue

How I helped the Friends of English Avenue to explore improvements to their community vegetable garden via digital media and interaction design.

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Goala

Goala

A mobile app for United Way members to help facilitate the process of achieving their goals

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ShelterShare

ShelterShare

A system model for more effective mobilization of resources and services for homelessness

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BART Improvements

BART Improvements

Taking the rush out of the BART rush hour

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Driveway

Driveway

Driveway helps drivers find a parking space when conventional options are extremely limited, and it helps space owners capitalize on their downtime.

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Party Assistant

Party Assistant

How to make ad-hoc event coordination and individual assistance for attendees to be convenient and comfortable

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ConText

ConText

Browser plugin that augments news articles with context for key concepts, events, and entities

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Should I pollute today?

Should I pollute today?

An app that calculates how much you pollute on your daily commute

civic media open data UI design
Plan.it

Plan.it

Plan.it is a daily organizer, streamlining teachers’ daily tasks such as registering absences, requesting teacher and testing materials, and recording notes.

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Interactivity@GT

[email protected]

This website tripled attendance to Georgia Tech’s MS-HCI career fair, [email protected] Since 2011, it has been a boon to the program’s job placement and reputation to both employers and prospective students.

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Commute Community

Commute Community

A hyperlocal social network for commuters, based on a mobile mesh network

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VacantFinder

VacantFinder

VacantFinder is a visualization of vacant property data and reporting tool for civic engagement

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DuoDash

DuoDash

Improve the interaction between freelancers and clients with automation and sexy data

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Open Ghana

Open Ghana

Reintroducing opportunity to Ghana’s mining blights by enabling the public to report injustices, announce improvements, and invite international attention and investment

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Foodhub

Foodhub

A community approach to helping people know, learn, and improve local food systems.

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Skill Trader

Skill Trader

Get help! No, really. SkillTrader helps you find people with the skills you need to accomplish your goals.

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