Resume

Experience

Technical Analyst – Box Tops for Education, General Mills, Minneapolis

November 2024 – Present

  • Drove the organization, planning, and scheduling of new feature implementation on an app with ~3.8 million users. Navigated multiple vendor relationships with external partners to ensure a unified user experience.
  • Ensured thorough testing of features and changes, evaluated and triaged high priority bugs. Sent critical communications during outages as an on-call analyst.

Software Engineer – Blue Buffalo Web Pod, General Mills, Minneapolis

July 2023 – November 2024

  • Develop new features on bluebuffalo.com according to priority, business needs, and WCAG best practices.
  • Led the complete redesign of the main site navigation, encompassing CMS, HTML/CSS, interactivity, and responsiveness.

Advanced Analyst – Next Generation Platform, General Mills, Minneapolis

July 2022 – July 2023

  • Facilitated communication between brand, business, and technical team members to implement features like live agent chat, newsletter signup modals, and product information integration.
  • Organized, prioritized, strategized work to be done in a sprint-based team structure; created, updated, and managed documentation and epics for larger projects.

Product Experience Intern – Quavo Incorporated, East Lansing

May 2021 November 2021

  • Redesigned the claim intake process for dispute management software using Figma; modernized visual appearance and updated logical functioning of UI elements and questionnaires.

Intern – Teach Access

March 2021 June 2022

  • Optimized materials for upload to an Open Educational Resources database. Provided support for varied tasks as needed for the operation of an accessibility education nonprofit.

User Experience/User Interface Intern – MSU College of Arts & Letters, East Lansing

January 2019 – March 2021

  • Diagrammed navigation and information architecture of 50+ department websites; strengthened wayfinding & findability.
  • Migrated sites from Concrete5 to WordPress; evaluated rhetorical intent/appearance of content; composed training materials.

Skills

  • Wireframing/Prototyping
  • Information Architecture
  • User Experience Testing & Research
  • Accessibility-Focused Approach
  • Front-end Web Development
  • Agile Workflow
  • Rhetoric & Leadership
  • Database (SQL) Skills

Education

Michigan State University Honors College, East Lansing

August 2018 – May 2022
BA, User Experience & BA, Psychology; Minors in Information Technology & Data Analytics
GPA 3.89