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KAMBHATLA, SANJAY

OBJECTIVE An entry-level user-experience or usability position, or an internship opportunity in a technology or consumer company where I can make a positive difference for the team through ethnographic studies, surveys, semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and statistical analysis for insights. EDUCATION,

SKILLS &

ABILITIES

• Certificate in UX Experience Design, Cornell University, expected December 2020

• UX Experience and Design Specialization, course from the University of Michigan, August 2020

• BA in Sociology and Anthropology, University of Puget Sound, May 2020

• Senior Thesis on health benefits of yoga, and specifically for cancer

• Coursework in Anthropology, Sociology, Psychology, Biology, Genetics, Intellectual Property, Science and Technology, Public Health, and International Relations

• Skilled at using SPSS, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and all of the forms of Social media

• Finished a Coursera class to become skilled enough to feet in the UX/UI field I enjoy being a team player and like to collaborate. I am an easy going person; I take pride in being helpful, easy to work with, and adaptive. ACADEMIC

PROJECTS

• Generated a Neilson’s “Heuristics” table analyzing UX design of ten movie related smart phone apps and websites.

• Generated six wire-frame designs for an elevator in a hypothetical 10,000 floor tower

• Senior thesis: Yoga for health and cancer. Researched forty sociological and anthropological papers on health benefits of yoga, specifically for cancer. Leveraged personal experiences from seven-week volunteering stint at yoga center in India

• Four visual essays based on fieldwork highlighting urbanism in the city of Tacoma

• Sociological data analysis project: Religious practices in the US. Based on SPSS and GSS data base

• Global cities analysis: Athens and its response to COVID-19

• Survey questionnaire project: Smartphones and Society

• Research paper: Public health and global health are two sides of the same coin

• Research paper: Viewing indigenous knowledge through an Intellectual Property lens

• Research paper: Indigenous people in the autonomous nation of India

• Digital field work: An exploration of Native Public Media

• Experimental design: How does age of a salesperson factor into attracting people to a booth?

• Anthropological research paper: What’s up? Browsing Habits at UPS

• Summary papers on indigenous peoples: a) Indigeneity in Asia; Trans-Canada pipeline, b) perspectives from Arthur Manuel and Richard Perry, and c) Indigenism as a global phenomenon

• Research: Experiences with social breach in the Durkheimian form in a social setting

• Sociology for Health Research Report: Paying more for less - Healthcare in America

• Connections Research Report and Presentation: Efficacy of Ayurvedic therapy

• Health & Medicine Report: Gender and ethnicity analysis of morbidity and mortality

• Ethnography Research Paper: Exploration of Irish culture

• Essay: Comparison & Acceptance of two anthropology approaches for ethnography

• Psychology Project Report: Human emotional wellbeing and impacts on performance

• Lab project: Comparing Lactate De-Hydrogenase (LDH) conversion of lactate to pyruvic acid rate in Neurons and Muscle cells

• Lab Project: Effect of x-ray radiation on the plant Arabidopsis Thaliana

• Lab project: Light absorption by leaves of Elodea Canadensis & oxygen added in surrounding water

WORK

EXPERIENCE

• Currently doing UX evaluation for Katla LLC, for potential soft-ware products

• Aided Dr. Amala Somyanath (Oregon Health and Sciences University – OHSU) in her research on the use of common chemical “piperine” to assess its effectiveness in curing a skin condition called Vitiligo by collecting data using Ki-67 and Melan-A stains

• As part of OHSU's PSI program at the Casey Eye Institute, assisted Dr. Rosenbaum’s team with their work on Uveitis by helping them stain cells/ tissue.

• Sales Associate at the Columbia Employee Store in Portland, OR.

• As an OHSU Science Ambassador for four years, taught various science topics to fifth grade students in the biological science in topics ranging from genetics to cellular activities/structure.

WHERE I HAVE

VOLUNTEERED

• Summer 2018: Volunteered with the non-Profit organization called “Because People Matter” as a social media expert. My main role was to increase the Non-Profit’s social media presence. I also attended the weekly “Nights under the Broadway Bridge”, where we would feed, clothe, and entertain people who were marginalized by the rest of the city.

• Summer 2019: Travelled abroad and volunteered at the Isha Yoga Center in Coimbatore India. While there, I gathered information for an ethnographic piece, which I would later write in the Spring of 2020, when I took SOAN 490 at the University of Puget Sound.

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