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
