SUMMARY

• Integrating psychology, user research, and front - end architecture to design, develop, and deploy compelling user experiences.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Design Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As a Design Developer, I help Designers and Engineers bridge the gap in bringing the UI and UX to life.
• I envision the role of a Design Developer as implementing UI/UX design. Working closely with project managers, designers, and engineers, I am involved in both prototype development and in the production environment (often polishing UI).

UX|UI Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• UX is typically are concerned with the overall feel of a product; UI is typically focused on the interface on a page or screen. Wearing both hats of UX and UI designer & developer, I am both concerned with the gestalt of a product and in the particulars of a product.
• Leverage my knowledge of psychology (human behavior, perception, emotions, motivation), user research, and problem-solving skills to create satisfying or compelling experiences for users of a product.
• Make sure every step a user will encounter on a page or screen during their interaction with a finished product fits within the overall UX gestalt.
• Finally, as a developer (as compared to a designer) I leverage my skills in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to code and build the client-side front-end interface.

User Experience Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Develop and build software prototypes for user feedback in the design process. Test, measure, and analyze results using a variety of research design methods (e.g., advanced multivariate statistics including structural equation modeling).
• Translate numbers into plain English and allow others to make better business decisions.
• Specifically, import, clean, transform, validate and/or model data with the purpose of understanding or making conclusions from the data for decision making purposes.
• Present data in charts, graphs, and/and tables. Including the design and development of data input and data request screens.
• Long-term object-relations oriented psychodynamic psychotherapy with a specialty of working with people of faith
• Psychological evaluations including cognitive and personality assessments for Social Security Disability Claimants and Child Protective Services

HTML Designer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop HTML email for hospitality industry.
• Ensure cross-client compatibility and multiple-device responsiveness.
• Psychodynamic Theory and Therapy
• Projective Personality Assessment
• Served on department and university committees
• Helped craft self-study for regional accreditation process

Clinical Training Director

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed and maintained a large number of local and regional practicum sites.
• Developed paperwork related to internship and practicum performance evaluations.
• Created and managed a MS Access database in order to facilitate accurate the training records.
• Took the lead in developing and maintaining university courses related to clinical training.
• Ensured that training opportunities would meet licensure requirements of future graduates.
• Attended and participated in National Schools of Professional Psychology (NCSPP) conferences aimed at developing and promoting best practices of clinical training.
• Maintained relationships with site supervisors.
• Evaluated quality of potential practicum sites.
• Mentored students new to the practicum and internship process.
• Educated students on Texas state standards of training for licensure as psychologist by the Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists.
• Consulted with students when they faced problems related to clinical training and provided support as they navigated these difficulties.
• Manage the flow of information regarding students' progress, as well as problems, to academic department chairs, faculty, and/or practicum/internship sites.

Regional Clinical Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed, supervised, and oversaw all clinical activities. Supervision included providing individual and group supervision for postdoctoral residents in an APPIC-Registered Postdoctoral Residency
• Provided psychological services to the Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services (Child Protective Services)
• Completed psychological evaluations for children and adults. These evaluations included assessing giftedness, mental retardation, learning disabilities, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, conduct disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, depression, anxiety, adoptions, schizophrenia, potential to abuse/neglect, parenting skills, attachment issues, cognitive functioning, personality functioning, and personality disorders
• Provided expert testimony regarding issues including the termination of parental rights, Daubert challenges to psychological measures, long-term impact of child abuse, and impact of children raised by parents with chronic mental illness
• Provided individual therapy
• Provided substance abuse services as a Substance Abuse Professional (SAP) for Dallas Area Rapid Transit (as the Employee Assistance Program contractor) in accordance with the Department of Transportation’s Code of Federal Regulations (49 CFR Part 40)
• Supervised office management including: billing, documenting contacts, maintaining managed care logs, marketing, local budgeting, scheduling, insurance verification, and quality assurance

Postdoctoral Resident

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided psychological services to the Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services
• Completed psychological evaluations for children included assessing giftedness, mental retardation, learning disabilities, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, conduct disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, depression, anxiety, and adoptions
• Completed psychological evaluations for adults including assessing depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, potential to abuse/neglect, cognitive functioning, personality functioning, personality disorders
• Facilitated individual therapy
• Provided clinical consultation, evaluation, assessment, and treatment for persons living in skilled nursing and assisted living facilities
• Staff consultation to facilitate treatment planning, improve intervention strategies, and manage behavior problems
• Multidisciplinary treatment planning and intervention implementation including attending physician, psychiatrist, social services, activities, physical therapy, occupational therapy, nursing staff, and administration
• Treatment included behavior modification, adjustment to terminal illness, brief solution focused interventions, pain management, supportive therapy, and insight-oriented psychotherapy

Practicum Extern

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed clinical intakes involving detailed history, provisional diagnosis, treatment planning, and clinical recommendations
• Maintained up to 8 adult, adolescent, child, or couple/family clients on an ongoing basis
• Performed psychological assessments for diagnosis and treatment planning
• Provided no-fee/low-fee therapy for individuals and families from two local homeless shelters
• Provided court referred therapy for the following issues: DUI; spousal abuse; parole from prison; child neglect; drug and alcohol abuse/dependency
• Provided care utilizing a variety of therapeutic modalities including: psychodynamic; Gestalt; brief models; couples; and family therapy

Practicum Extern

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated group therapy for children and adolescent programs
• Facilitated didactic group exercises to increase life-skills, coping-skills, and mental-health awareness and education
• Worked on goal setting and treatment compliance with patients to stabilize them in preparation for transition to outpatient services
• Met with multidisciplinary treatment team regarding patients’ progress and needs assessment for outpatient placement
• Conducted neuropsychological screening on HIV/AIDS patients to rule out AIDS related dementia
• Conducted comprehensive clinical interviews to aid in diagnostic process
• Participated in weekly multidisciplinary treatment team meetings consisting of psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, postdoctoral fellows, interns, and externs
• Attended weekly case conference and in-service presentations