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Experience  

Cardinal Health 

Lead UX Researcher   
Jul 2022 - Current
  • Conducted discovery and formative research, moderating 200+ customer research sessions and producing 500+ tracked user insights and pain points 

  • Proposed and project managed a large-scale, contextual inquiry discovery research project, that would serve as the foundation of an e-commerce redesign adding 7 unique platforms’ requirements into 1 new unified B2B pharmaceutical e-commerce platform

  • Guided the information architecture strategy and collaborated with product stakeholders to create a user-centered global navigation for our new pharma e-commerce website by conducting a card sort, tree test, and desktop and mobile usability tests 

  • Collaborated closely with product leads to create a platform feedback survey to track key experience metrics across releases and collect product pain points

  • Increased program’s UX maturity by creating templated resources (study guides, presentation slide decks, heuristic evaluation boards, research strategy boards), a centralized recommendation and status tracker, a UX onboarding guide, and establishing and documenting a standard research process to ensure a standardized and high-quality research experience across squads

  • Helped grow UX researchers by providing opportunities for collaboration on complex projects, providing feedback on research guides and readouts, and providing a forum for cross-team learning and sharing 

UX Researcher   
Nov 2021 - Jun 2022 
  • Designed and completed iterative usability testing within an agile framework to support the design and delivery of the Vantus HQ pharmaceutical B2B e-commerce platform

Epic

UX Researcher & Quality Manager  
Sep 2018 - Aug 2021

  • Led 15+ usability studies to determine the effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction of in-flight projects

  • Conducted 30+ user interviews and created research artifacts such as personas, decision trees, and job-to-be-done atlases to keep the end user at the heart of design and development  

  • Facilitated 100+ usability sessions for projects across the company 

  • Coordinated and facilitated 10+ focus groups to understand users or obtain early design feedback 

  • Reviewed 60+ design documents from end-user, design, usability, and accessibility point-of-views

  • Conducted functional, accessibility, and usability testing as a lead tester for 200+ logs 

  • Process Owner for Remote Usability Testing and Focus Group Coordinator of the Patient and Family Advisory Council at Epic

Education

PhD, History  
University of Notre Dame 

BA, History
Northwestern University

Skills

Research
  • Semi-Structured & In-Depth interviews

  • Contextual Inquiry

  • Concept & Usability Testing

  • Heuristic Evaluations

  • Card Sorts & Tree Tests

  • Focus Groups

  • Surveys

Tools
  • UserTesting, UserZoom

  • Opinion Labs, Verint, Survey Monkey

  • Jira, Confluence

  • Microsoft Suite

  • Lucid

References

Addy Cary

Senior UX Research Manager, Cardinal Health

 

Haley Hendershot Malone

UX Research Specialist,

Great American Insurance Group

 

Laraine Tumblin

Senior UX Researcher,

Cencora

University of Notre Dame

PhD Researcher
Aug 2011 - Jan 2018

 
 

  • Dominica and Frank Annese Fellow, Nanovic Institute for European Studies

  • Katie Murphy McMahoon Grantee, Nanovic Institute for European Studies

  • Designed and executed research in Russian archives to understand daily life

  • Read, synthesized, and analyzed 100+ written documents including estate records, correspondence, petitions, memoirs, instructions, and journal articles

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