Hey everyone, you can call me Allison and my pronouns are she/they. I am at the beginning of my second semester here at the CUNY Graduate Center where I am in pursuit of a Masters Degree in the Digital Humanities with focus in Digital Pedagogy. As far as my previous academic studies are concerned, I have an Associates Degree in the Humanities from Brookdale Community College in Lincroft, New Jersey where I took courses in philosophy, advanced public speaking and music performance after high school. My background is in dance, singing and musical performance as a youngin’. When I transferred to Hunter College, I decided to get my Bachelors Degree in Media Studies with a focus on Web Production instead and graduated in 2015. Some highlights of my skill set are technical training, video and audio editing, design, usability testing, accessibility, patience and mindfulness. I’ve spent most of my working life supporting software, either in tech support/training or in it’s development, but usually on the people side of things. I’m also a yoga and meditation instructor still flowing on zoom all throughout the pandemic with people from all over the world.
Outreach: I feel that I am quite a sociable person. I have formerly worn a marketing hat and have experience in teaching for many, many years. The one thing I can share here is that I have a small business, so I would be happy to promote any projects to my small email list and on my social media outlets. I have also lived in NYC for over ten years and I am decently connected to the wellness and tech support communities. I have always been a people person, I’ve worked in sales and I have made cold calls before! I am not afraid to ask questions to strangers. I am not saying I am super excited to do this type of work during covid-times, however.
Project manager: My experience here lies mostly in marketing and software/product launch projects, which is only about ~5 years worth or so. I will share that it is not my preference to manage projects, as I have some notorious trouble in speaking up to people whom I would consider colleages. I am excellent at coordinating small events and give aways.
Designer/UX: I have the most experience here, but nothing technical/coding wise, it is mostly all in testing the usability of a product or noticing how unusable things are and providing feedback to product managers over the years of working in tech. I have taken some design courses in my undergrad and here at the Grad Center and am extremely competent in designing in keynote and pages, I would vote myself 10/10 stars with that software. I am strong with photography, typeface and overall production of media projects. I helped test and further the development of a ride sharing app for a couple of years in a start up, I have strong competency in using screen reader software and other accessibility features of Macs. #accessibility
Research: I would say I am extremly competent in researching things, but my problem is that I lack organization as I research. I would like to grow in this area. Fun fact, I’ve wrote a final paper on Google’s domination of the search engine market place back in 2015 and got an A+!
