education, professional growth | design portfolio

Life's just no fun if you're not learning new things. Here are highlights of UX-relevant training, education, and professional growth.

Keeping those design skills sharp!

Data Science Salon Austin; two-day conference from formulated.by (2019)
Remotely Possible: Remote Testing Lessons from Tomer Sharon and Steve Krug (2015)
Knowbility: Access U (2015)
Which Test Won: The Live Event (2015)
Mobile Design Patterns, Theresa Neil (2012)

Presenting, panels, professional organizations, and giving back.

Author, upcoming Usable Color, Rosenfeld Media (coming out in 2023).
Co-chair, co-founder (dis)Abled at Infor employee resource group (2020-present); contributed employee story Meeting Autism Halfway.
Color Usability and Data Visualization, global Dell Brand Blue Notes presentation (2019)
General Assembly UXDI lead instructor, ten-week, full-time UX boot camps (four times, 2016–2018)
Testing, testing... and User Experience, Creatives Meet Business Website Edition, live event + podcast (ep. 12; I start at 3:20) (2016).
GENaustin GirlConnect Code, trainer (2015)
GirlConnect Women in Technology, panelist (2015)

UXPA Austin session: presenter, Telling Stories with Narrative Taxonomy (2014)
UT School of Information, panelist, UX Careers (2014)
Austin Tech Women in Leadership, panelist (2013)
Intention-Focused Design: Applying Perceptual Control Theory to Discover User Intent, UXmatters (2012)
ScrumAlliance (2009-present)
Toward a More Cognitive Knowledge Management, global LocalNet 2000 (2000)
Puget Sound SIGCHI, ACM SIGCHI
Seattle, Austin IxDA; AIGA; UXPA

The below was accomplished while working full time and earning multiple work awards and promotions.

Texas Woman’s University, May 1999

With highest honors.
Member, Psi Chi, national psychology honor society. Dean’s List.
Concentrations in computer science, biology.
Supervised therapist, autistic children ages 2 – 5.
Author/Presenter, 1999 TWU Annual Research and Creative Arts Symposium, Interpreting Autism from the Language Acquisition Perspective to Better Understand Emotional and Linguistic Development.
Long-term research, experimental methodology and statistical science, focus on perception and memory.