Nice to meet you!

I’m a recent graduate of General Assembly’s UX Design Immersive program and previously am a graduate of the University of Oregon with a Bachelors of Science in Economics.

I have a varied background and numerous interests. I’ve worked in the restaurant business, in social media marketing for a small record label, in recording studios as a studio assistant, as a music composer, producer, and performer, and finally as an English language teacher abroad.

You might ask - what’s all of this getting at? 

For a long time, I struggled to unify these interests. I have an honest affinity for artistic expression but I value practicality. I enjoy the abstract but am mindful of the objective experience of any given thing. I enjoy working with people but I want to impact as many as possible. It wasn’t until my discovery of UX Design that I could unify all of these interests in any one pursuit.

As a UX Designer, I focus on people's everyday thinking, emotions, and behavior to make human-centered designs that can improve the daily lives of people and can aid them in leveraging the tools available to them.

Through my experiences, I’ve seen the power of coherent UX. I’ve seen artists fettered by unnecessarily complicated Digital Audio Workstations and I’ve seen how poor lesson structuring can frustrate and confuse students who would otherwise find English to be fun, approachable, and digestible. If a person cannot properly leverage the tools that we make for them, can these things really be referred to as tools? 

🖥 Skills

  • Product Design
  • UX Research
  • Interaction Design
  • Branding
  • Video Editing
  • Audio Engineering

...and more!

🏫 Currently Learning

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Javascript
  • Common Design Patterns - UXCEL
  • 한국어🇰🇷

📚 Personal Interests

  • Music
  • Literature
  • Film
  • Fashion
  • Visual Design Trends
  • Traveling
  • Fitness

💡Current Projects

  • TalkThru Peer to Peer video chat service.
  • Self Education through UXCEL
Teaching abroad in Korea was an invaluable experience and taught me a great deal about empathy and communication. I may add a blog to this website just as an excuse to write about this experience in more detail. I am very grateful to have had it.
Producing music is a powerful exercise in listening, conceptualizing, iterating, and storytelling. As a producer, navigating the liminal space that exists between an artist’s creative vision and what it looks like when made tangible in the world is difficult to navigate but provides a strong template for the marriage between UI and UX.

More About Me

Favorite Book / The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Favorite Movie / The Godfather - Francis Ford Coppola

Favorite Album / Songs from the Big Chair - Tears for Fears

Favorite Classical Piece / Sonatine - Maurice Ravel

Favorite Sport / Soccer

Favorite Website(s) / Twitter / YouTube

Current Interest / KPOP

Another Current Interest / Visual Design Trends

Currently Reading / Light in August - William Faulkner

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