About Me

Originally from Brazil, I moved to Arizona in 2012 for a one year exchange opportunity during my undergrad. Well, this one year turned into 9 (and counting), and includes a marriage, a Ph.D., a cute Shih-Poo doggie, and now a move to beautiful Hawaii!

Outside of UX, you'll find me playing my Oboe, hiking, reading (probably a biography or sci-fi), or spending time with my family.

Education

Ph.D. Human-Computer Interaction

Arizona State University

2013—2018

B.S. Computer Science

Universidade Católica
de Brasília

2009—2012

Work

UX & Design Lead

Proctorio

2019—2021

Design

  • Led the collaboration with McGraw Hill to redesign Proctorio's settings as part of the integration into the Connect platform.
  • Redesigned the settings UI.
  • Led the redesign of the company's branding, including a complete redesign of its website.
  • Designed an iPhone app for test taking.

Research

  • Planned and Conducted interview calls with client or partner institutions.
  • Began structuring the company's research capabilities.

Development

  • Built internal tools to improve collaboration between teams as well as my own team's efficiency
  • Provided training for our internal front-end framework to software engineers.

Leadership

  • Lead a multidisciplinary team of six designers & front-end devs.
  • Led the hiring process for my team.

UX Designer

Proctorio

2019

Design

  • Built a design system from the ground up, including a component library in Figma as well as front-end components.
  • Redesigned the test taker experience to build trust and decrease anxiety.
  • Designed the company's originality verification UI.

Research

  • Performed a UI inventory and heuristic analysis of the company's UIs.

Development

  • Developed a front-end framework based on Web Components and documented it through Storybook.
  • Worked with Deque Systems to correct accessibility issues.

Research Assistant

Arizona State University

2013—2018

Design

  • Designed web applications in Figma to be used in different research projects.

Research

  • Designed and facilitated in-person and remote interviews, co-creation workshops, and usability tests.
  • Designed and implemented several large-scale, unmoderated studies in Amazon’s MTurk and Prolific
  • Designed, conducted, and analyzed multiple experimental studies.
  • Conducted remote interview studies with open-source project contributors.
  • Published and presented papers at top-tier HCI venues.

Development

  • Developed web applications to be used in research projects.
  • Implemented a robot that moved autonomously on a cartesian plane projected on the floor.

Leadership

  • Managed undergrad and masters students working on research projects.

Software Dev. Intern

Faithlife Corporation

2014

Development

  • Developed internal web systems to manage the company's resources, both on the front end—using Angular and jQuery—as well as on the back end—using C#, .NET MVC, and ElasticSearch.