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ExecutiveSummary:
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AI/UX Researcher and Human-Centered Design Practitioner with 5+ years of human-centered practice across AI product research, UX consulting, and learning experience design. Certified Human-Centered Design Practitioner from the LUMA Institute, with a background in cognitive psychology and pedagogy that sharpens workshop facilitation and usability testing. Currently leading AI trust and ethics research at CareerCoachingPro, translating user research into agent instructions, evaluation pipelines, and measurable improvements to AI experiences across B2B and B2C contexts.

Professional UX
Experience:

UX Researcher | AI Strategist, Freelance
CareerCoachingPro | Remote

May 2025 - Current

  • Owning the AI trust and ethics research program as the sole researcher, from survey analysis that surfaced motivation collapse and AI trust as primary user barriers to a human-centered framework that guides agent governance and product strategy

  • Translating research into production AI behavior by authoring the instruction and knowledge-base architecture for CCP’s chat-based intake and coaching agents, encoding escalation, disclosure, and error-correction rules through human-in-the-loop review

  • Owning release readiness for CCP’s AI intake agent, live on Instagram and moving to the company website, with a launch bar of under 5% claim error and near zero on prices, discounts, and program terms

  • Designed a staged evaluation pipeline (synthetic-persona pilot, live participants, retest) across three sprints in 13 days; the pilot predicted a pricing-disclosure defect that live participants confirmed within one week, and surfaced language-accessibility needs for non-native English speakers

  • Built a hallucination tracker coding 834 agent claims against the live site (AI-assisted, human-verified), traced errors past a knowledge-base contradiction to an instruction layer overriding it, and cut pricing errors from 31% to 0% (0 of 87 claims) across eight releases

  • Built a Claude-based evaluation setup guide that a teammate replicated on his own device to run agentic sessions independently, facilitated AI learning sessions for internal teams, and built an external intermediate AI tools class for CCP group sessions, backed by a Mural learning library

Web Designer
Enormous Creative | Peekskill, NY

Sept. 2024 - Dec. 2024

  • Owned the full UX research and design cycle across multiple client engagements, leading stakeholder interviews and applying HCI heuristics to deliver accessible, responsive websites

  • Served as client contact for design decisions, ensuring research insights translated directly into business-aligned outcomes without a handoff layer

UX Consultant, Freelance
Self | Pine Bush, NY

Aug. 2019 - Sept. 2024

  • Built and ran an independent UX consultancy with full ownership of research, design, and delivery, improving a client's digital experience and service design to drive sales in new large-scale developments
    •    Led end-to-end UX redesign for client websites, owning content architecture decisions that improved usability and customer experience with direct client accountability
    •    Diagnosed and resolved hardware and software issues to improve client operational efficiency by 80%, applying systems thinking alongside UX practice

Paid Federal Work Study,
UX Specialist

Touro University | New York, NY

July 2021 - May 2022

  • Owned competitive analysis and quantitative research on a small institutional team, presenting findings directly to program chairs and deans and driving solutions that improved website usability by 25%
    •    Led mixed-method research in direct partnership with academic leadership to define and build program websites, with no intermediary review layer

Professional Teaching Experience:

Learning Experience Designer | Substitute Teacher 
Pine Bush Central School District | Pine Bush, NY

Jan. 2020 - Sept. 2023

  • Managed classrooms for teachers and followed lesson plans provided by the teacher to ensure students are continuing their learning

  • Applied subject-matter expertise in web design, user experience, global and American history to guide high school students with their schoolwork, and adapted my knowledge to meet the needs of learners

Learning Experience Designer |
Educator

NYC Dept. of Education | New York, NY

Sept. 2016 - Sept. 2018

  • Owned the full research and instructional design cycle for 130 students daily, using quantitative and qualitative data to iterate on learning experiences and drive an 80% goal completion rate
    •    Defined research questions, scoped units of study, and led execution of pedagogical methodologies meeting NYS Board of Regents and College Board AP standards, with direct accountability for outcomes

Certifications:

Human-Centered Design Facilitator Certification

LUMA Institute, Issued: October 2026

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Human-Centered Design Practitioner Certification

LUMA Institute, Issued: October 2025

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Education:

M.A. Web and Multimedia Design: UX Research GPA: 3.7
Touro University: Graduate School of Technology

June 2019 - June 2022

  • Concentrated in UX research strategy, user behavior and cognition, and Human-Computer Interaction — with applied coursework in mixed-methods research design, insight synthesis, and evidence-based product decision-making
    •    Developed intermediate proficiency in responsive web design using HTML / SASS & JavaScript

B.S. Adolescent Education: Social Studies, History Minor

SUNY Oswego

January 2012 - December 2015

  • Concentrated studies in Education and Modern European History

  • Applied multicultural learning practices to learn about challenges people face.

  • Applied skills in planning engaging lessons for students

  • Collaborated with teachers in the classroom to gain hands-on experience

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