Michael Fernandes
UX Engineer
WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION
Code
JavaScript, React, Redux, React
Native, MobX, D3.js, CSS,
Node.js, Python, Java, PHP,
jQuery
Design Skills
Inclusive Design, User-Centered
Design, Rapid Prototyping,
Wireframes, Usability Data
Analysis, Participatory Design,
Design Research, Usability
Studies
Design Tools
FIGMA, Illustrator, Photoshop,
Experience Design
Technical Tools
Webpack, Docker, Jenkins, K8s,
SQL, MongoDB, AWS, NGINX,
GIT, SEO
University of Washington, B.S.E.
Co-founded a program that
introduced students in underprivileged
communities to design thinking.
Assisted in teaching classes on Python
and User-Centered Design.
PROJECTS
PhysioMap Rehabilitation
Front-End Development, UX Design
• Collaborated with a team of Physical Therapy researchers to create a patient- centered app for communicating fall risk to geriatric rehabilitation patients.
• Designed and implemented a Front-End focused responsive application. Tongle: Road Usage Charge Method
Design Researcher and Prototyper
• Led a design process, using pariticpatory design, to devise a tech system to administer a Road Usage Charge in an ethical, just and secure way. Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
MAQ Software
UX/UI Designer, Mar 2018 - Sep 2018
• Collaborated with clients to conduct rapid prototyping including wireframing, storyboarding and user tests to quickly iterate new product ideas. Software Developer, Dec 2019 - Current
• Developed a platform for launching and evaluating data science models using a React component library that visualizes and manages data.
• Improved time until interactive for data-dense components by 600%.
• Contributed to an early campaign to project COVID-19 infections rates, creating a web tool averaging over 7 million daily users within the first two weeks. Design Use Build, University of Washington
Research Assistant, Jun 2016 - Dec 2017
• Iteratively designed novel displays for communicating uncertainty in ways that led to better decisions made by laypersons untrained in data science.
• Deployed mobile app using D3.js and a Django RESTful API to visualize data and conduct passive usage metric collection.
JavaScript Developer, Feb 2019 - Dec 2019
• Crafted data stories designed to introduce nuanced public health concepts to laypersons using interactive and exploratory experiences.
• Created distributed apps for viewing and analyzing disease burden and other health outcome data at a population level.
Human Centered Design and
Engineering, HCI concentration
Sep 2012 - Jun 2017
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