Jennifer R. Ash
Game Design, User Experience Design
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Academic Initiative, System Z

Curriculum owner for the System z Academic Initiative. Maintain course repository, course creation, student tours, and organize the Teach the Teachers conference annually.
Nov 2009 - present
Curriculum owner
Professor Summer Seminars
Student tours
Team email

User Experience Design, z/0S

Perform user studies, heuristic evaluations, and design user friendly interfaces. Still provide advising occasionally while on the Academic Initiative team.

June 2008-Nov 2009
Heuristic Review
Survey creation/application
Stakeholder feedback repository design

Knowledge Center

IBM SWG project for knowledge repository. Lead a team of 4 focusing on competitive analysis.

2009-2010
Competitive Analysis Lead

Volunteering/Leadership

• Summer Technology Camps [2007, 2008, 2009]
• GEMS mentoring [2008/2009, 2009/2010, 2010/2011]
• MentorPlace - Mid-Hudson Valley [2008/2009, 2009/2010]
• Engineers Week [2008/2009, 2010/2011]
• Lego Robotics - referee for one event [2009]
• New Hire Network - Forum Committee Co-Chair [2009-present]
• MentorPlace - P-Tech [2011/2012]

2008-present

[Internship] User Experience Design, z/OS

Participated in a speed team of two working on simplifying the z/OS installation and migration process through our knowledge of the process and client interviews and feedback. Prototypes of necessary changes to improve the process for lower experience level, shorter procedure time, and reduced costs were created to communicate our findings.

Summer 2007
Lo-fi prototyping
User Testing
Task Analysis
Design Document