My Technical Journey

My technical interest stemmed from my Bachelor’s Degree at Indiana University Bloomington from The School of Informatics & Computing. This degree led me to my current career path in the IT industry. In July 2016 I was placed as a Performance Engineer for General Motors. This job was to ensure several applications’ quality and environment stability.

After exposure to many of the company’s job titles, I picked up a more artistic role as a UX/UI Designer. I began working closely with developers. Watching their daily tasks encouraged me to take HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Angular courses in hopes of becoming an exceptional designer one day.

With practice and attendance of code training sessions, I became a front-end developer driven by user centered design. For me, the enjoyment of being a front-end developer and a UX/UI Designer is to take conceptual wireframes and transform them into a functional application

— Essentially, making my ideas come to life.

My Creative Journey

I have always taken interest in all forms of art.

In the past, I have take a variety of art classes including 3D Art, 2D Art, Photography |, Photography ||, Sculpting, etc.

I then minored in the School of Media, which inspired me to apply my artistic abilities to my videography assignments.

For a few years after graduation, I continued my pursuit in videography through freelance projects. For example, I had friends who wanted to promote start ups, and I would put together clips for their marketing. Again, applying my artistic abilities.

My current role as a UX/UI designer is an artistic role os the perfect balance of creativity and technicality. It consists of understanding requests from the business users, then designing several iterations. This may mean coming up with a user flow from scratch, block framing, building wireframes, high fidelity compositions, and clickable prototypes. Or this may mean tweaking an existing user experience/UI to provide a more accessible and seamless interface.

Either way, I think it is no coincidence that I ended up in the IT industry with not much confidence on my technical expertise (even given my bachelors degree), but then found the creative path I was always meant for — while still within a technical realm of familiarity.