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I've had the privilege of speaking at various events on design, development, and product, sharing my knowledge and experiences with others. Whether at schools or conferences, I'm passionate about discussing design and technology.

I'm always eager for new opportunities to share insights and inspire conversations. Planning an event? Let's connect!

Speaking Events

The Hidden Roles in Animation: Exploring Design and Tech Pathways

April 2025 ・ Providence High School

Spoke to students about the role of technology and product design in the animation industry, highlighting how these disciplines support and shape the creative process behind filmmaking. The talk aimed to broaden their understanding of career possibilities, emphasizing both creative and technical pathways within the industry and beyond!

Practical Personas & Applying Usability Heuristics

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.

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Lighting the Way: What it's like Designing Lighting Tools at Disney Animation

May 2024 ・ Disney's UX Summit

Lighting is a critical part of our animated films. How do we enable new workflows and greater control while lowering the barrier for our artists to bring their visions to life? What experiences do we mirror in the new tooling landscape and what do you leave behind? This talk explores the lessons learned and some best practices for building and adopting new tools within a legacy system.

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Creating a Professional Portfolio

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.

Applying Usability Heuristics

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.

User Workflows in Complex Ecosystems: Understanding your User and their Surroundings

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.

Edtech & Entrepreneurship

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.

How to do the Devzgn Thing

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.

Real World AI

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.

Processly: A New Kind of Collaboration

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.

Processly in the Classroom

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.

Processly, From an Idea to a Product

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.

Careers in UX

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.

Starting a Company as a Student

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.

Personal Branding: Sharing a Story Through Your Work

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.

Processly in the Classroom

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.

UI/UX Design & Architecture: Leveraging Web Technologies for & by Architects

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.

HTTParty: A Workshop Series

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.

Personal Branding: Sharing a Story Through Your Work

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.

Design @ YinzCam

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.

Portfolio Hack-a-thon

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.

WebDevWeekend: Intro to HTML & CSS

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.

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