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Work
Things I do, sorted by how cool I think they are
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.
Blockchain service
Creating the UI for a secret blockchain service at IBM
IBM
I currently lead design research and contribute to interaction and interface design with IBM Blockchain Solutions for food safety applications.
Cloud Infrastructure
Cross-portfolio research, design, and development
Virtual server monitoring
Leading the design and research on a new offering for infrastructure monitoring.
Key Protect
Design and research for a new key management service for IBM Cloud
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.
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.
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.
Design Thinking
Part of being a design researcher is helping folks articulate their thoughts and sharing them with their team and stakeholders.
Magic Window
Testing how people would perceive and use natural interaction affordances in a live remote collaboration space
ProtoCity
Helping citizens prototype and actively build their future city
Array of Things
How things big and small can be made accessible through a common network and identifiable as an array of networked devices.
WALT
Community empowerment centered around permanently affordable housing
Open Austin
Leading organizational efforts on projects, onboarding new members, and helping the organization succeed
GTMobile
I designed and built many mobile web applications as part of a suite of utilities that benefit the Georgia Tech community
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.
Oriental Weavers USA
Designed and built the website for the U.S. division of the world’s largest producer of carpet and area rugs
Rapid Prototyping Curriculum
Repackaging a rapid prototyping curriculum for new audiences
Waggle
Interactive environment game for learning about bees’ waggle dance
Mobile Reporting
Boilerplate code and design for creating mobile reporting apps
Gleanhub
What happens to unsold or just-out-of-date food? Waste. Gleanhub could prevent this by connecting businesses to hungry people.
Unlock the Box
Voting access projects for Georgia
Fresh for Less
Helping communities in need of healthier food options to gain access
eDemocracy
Increase and improve the transparency and fairness of democratic processes and institutions at home and abroad
Go Grow Atlanta
We helped urban farmers and gardeners access and engage in the drafting process of Atlanta’s first Urban Agriculture Zoning Ordinance
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.
Goala
A mobile app for United Way members to help facilitate the process of achieving their goals
ShelterShare
A system model for more effective mobilization of resources and services for homelessness
BART Improvements
Taking the rush out of the BART rush hour
Driveway
Driveway helps drivers find a parking space when conventional options are extremely limited, and it helps space owners capitalize on their downtime.
Party Assistant
How to make ad-hoc event coordination and individual assistance for attendees to be convenient and comfortable
ConText
Browser plugin that augments news articles with context for key concepts, events, and entities
Should I pollute today?
An app that calculates how much you pollute on your daily commute
Plan.it
Plan.it is a daily organizer, streamlining teachers’ daily tasks such as registering absences, requesting teacher and testing materials, and recording notes.
[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.
Commute Community
A hyperlocal social network for commuters, based on a mobile mesh network
VacantFinder
VacantFinder is a visualization of vacant property data and reporting tool for civic engagement
DuoDash
Improve the interaction between freelancers and clients with automation and sexy data
Open Ghana
Reintroducing opportunity to Ghana’s mining blights by enabling the public to report injustices, announce improvements, and invite international attention and investment
Foodhub
A community approach to helping people know, learn, and improve local food systems.
Skill Trader
Get help! No, really. SkillTrader helps you find people with the skills you need to accomplish your goals.