Speaking

February 2025 ・ Carnegie Mellon University

Discussed the role of personas and usability heuristics with the Product Design Innovation group at the Integrated Innovation Institute, exploring their advantages and limitations across various contexts, from early-stage design to post-launch evaluation.

November 2022 ・ Duquesne University

From the perspective of a hiring manager and someone who has been in the same shoes, I shared my thoughts on what makes the most compelling portfolio to land your next job.

June 2022 ・ Carnegie Mellon University

Spoke with the Product Design Innovation group of the Integrated Innovation Institute about the role of usability heuristics, how they can be used to measure design work and create a strong foundation for the user's experience.

October 2021 ・ Harrisburg University

Shared by experiences around designing solutions in complex ecosystems such as in radiology and telemedicine environments, consideration that need to be captured during discovery for your primary user and their support teams.

February 2021 ・ St. Andrew's Episcopal School

Shared my journey as a founder of an educational technology startup, Processly, and the process of transforming an idea to a product.

November 2020 ・ The New School

Building great software has many steps. One of which is making sure the collaboration between the design and development teams is just right, executing to the highest level. This talk explores best practices and strategies to help you and your team grow this connection.

May 2019 ・ UPMC

Spoke about the value of AI in the real world and some of the challenges that come with implementing them in a seemingly straightforward environment during our internal artificial intelligence talk series.

January 2019 ・ Consumer Electronics Show

Spoke about the value of Processly in both an educational and corporate setting bringing distributed teams together through the use of Processly’s online whiteboard, Sandbox.

October 2018

Presented the value of Processly to educators and other education stakeholders, explaining how it would work for a variety of teaching styles and grade levels, middle school high school and higher education.

April 2018 ・ University of Pittsburgh

Spoke to the group about what it means to be a young entrepreneur. Finding a problem you are passionate about solving and how you turn that passion into a business. Building a product and putting in the hands of your customer.

April 2018 ・ University of California, Los Angeles

Spoke about the current landscape of user experience design, what it means and where I see the field going as well as how to get into the field coming from a non-design background.

March 2018 ・ Carnegie Mellon University

Spoke to the entrepreneurship class about what it means to be a young entrepreneur. Finding a problem you are passionate about solving and how you turn that passion into a business.

February 2018 ・ Carnegie Mellon University

Spoke to the group about what it means to create a personal brand identity. Talking about visual identity and creating a brand system that can be portrayed throughout their work. As well as having a design critique around existing student brands.

November 2017 ・ Three Rivers Educational Technology Conference

Presented the value of Processly to educators and other education stakeholders, explaining how it would work for a variety of teaching styles and grade levels, middle school high school and higher education.

April 2017 ・ AIA Build Pittsburgh

Presented ‘UI/UX Design and Architecture: Leveraging Web Technologies for and by Architects’ sharing common interests and workflows between these industries and some opportunities for both industries to adopt from one another.

March 2017 ・ Carnegie Mellon University

Explored the basics of UI/UX design and web development, with the Dzgn.IO team. Looking at the origins of the web and have to leverage constraint for your designs.

October 2016 ・ Carnegie Mellon University

Spoke to the group about what it means to create a personal brand identity. Talking about visual identity as well as the bigger brand system that can be portrayed throughout all of their work and what it means to convey a project narrative.

September 2016 ・ Carnegie Mellon University

Shared what it was like working on cutting edge technology project within the sports industry. The risk, challenges and rewards of having hundreds of thousands of people using your product.

April 2015 ・ Carnegie Mellon University

A workshop helping students learn to design and build their own portfolios, a digital showcase of their work. Defining the narrative and the structure of their work then diving into the development of the details.

April 2015 ・ Carnegie Mellon University

Introduced the basics of web development to the group. Showcased the foundations of a website, HTML and CSS the role they play in building and design a web presence.