About Me

Hi there! I’m Anna and I am a User Experience Designer, writer, musician, and more.
I am a natural dabbler and jack of all trades. I simply love collecting experiences and trying things out! This has led me to a career in UX because I love the variety that I get on a daily basis. I enjoy switching from the creative side of problem solving and wire-framing to analytical pursuits such as user research and user testing.

I am currently working at Rutgers University as a Project Coordinator on the Rutgers Public Health Data Dashboards project. I design and maintain the site and project presence alongside my Project Coordinator duties. Our project track seeks to define guidelines in involving communities within the design process of data dashboards in order to enable communities’ access to critical data that involves them.

I have a variety of work experiences that have each helped develop my well-rounded nature.

  • Business Analyst: Extensive project management experience. Handled company wide data migration. Extensive Salesforce experience in customizing the platform for the operations team.

  • Product Intern: Extensive experience under a product manager, and work involving the Software development cycle, designing prototypes and presenting them to developers for implementation.

  • Project Coordinator and team design expert: From this experience, I learn about the human and social impact of access to data and how it can be used to inform policy and decisions at the community level.

  • Government intern: How systems work when driven solely by functionality and need. Working through regulation and many bureaucratic steps to understand the system and implement change.

  • Student Educator at a museum: Learning how to design experiences and present information in a physical, involved format that can be carried over to UX design.

Personal Life

I have a very wide range of interests and hobbies that I love to pursue on my personal time.
I love to travel. I also enjoy studying languages and speak Japanese and Russian and am currently learning French. I would love to work in different countries and within multi-cultural environments.

I love music, I majorly play piano and violin and I especially enjoy playing video game music.

I also enjoy art both in creating and consuming manga, comics, books, anime, and video games.
Some of my favorite games are Expedition 33, Final Fantasy X, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt, and so much more.