CMU Human-Computer Interaction Institute

Carnegie Mellon University

Makerere University

**on the Job Market: Fall 2022**  -  Carnegie Mellon HCI PhD Candidate  -  FLIP Fellow & Grace Hopper Scholar  -  Ex Facebook, IBM Research

Contribute to current and new course offerings; and build a shared vision for climate and environmental studies at a liberal arts college of science and engineering.

Harvey Mudd College

Maria M. Klawe Assistant Professor of Climate and Computer Science

Co-instructor, Transformational Game Design Studio (05-499/899)

Facebook

UX Researcher Intern

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Programmable User Interfaces (05-430/630) 

Graduate Teaching Assistant, User-Centered Research & Evaluation (05-410/610)

Collaborate on and initiate research projects: currently working on exploring public transit in developing countries and data logs from a transit app deployed in the United States (Tiramisu)

Graduate Research Assistant

- Working along side Software Engineers and Software Product Manager as part of an agile process on the development of applications solutions to meet customer requirements.
- Participating in the analysis and composition of requirements, design and architectural and component software features
- Adapting to new programming languages, methodologies and platforms to meet the needs of the project.

Fenix International

Software Engineer

Big Ideas is an annual contest aimed at providing funding, support, and encouragement to interdisciplinary teams of students who have “big ideas.” 

Big Ideas Judges support the contest by reviewing proposals in a category of their choice, scoring them based on established criteria, and providing written feedback for improvement. All judging is done remotely in judges’ free time via our online application platform. Judges can participate in one or both of our two contest rounds:

• Pre-Proposal Round: The pre-proposal round review period runs from mid-November through early-December. Pre-Proposal judges review between 6-8 submissions - each of which is 3 pages long. In this round, scoring emphasis is placed on how creative and innovative the idea is within its category.

• Final Round: The final round review period runs from mid-March to early-April. Final Round judges review full proposals - each of which is 10-15 pages long. In this round, scoring emphasis is placed more equally on potential for impact, implementation and viability.

Big Ideas - UC Berkeley

Judge

Junior Software Engineer

- Understand the engineering process as well as the running of the core internal software FenixDB

Software Engineering Intern

Project Summary: Provide support to graduate students for the course: Java For Smartphone Development. This included two main areas of focus, teaching object oriented Java and using Java in Android development
Responsibilities Held:
- Conduct recitations when necessary
- Hold office hours and regularly meet with students on weekly basis
- Grade student assignments

Carnegie Mellon University Africa

Graduate Teaching Assistant - Java For Smartphone Development

Project Summary: Provide support to graduate students for the course: Strategic Use of Digital Information in Enterprise.
Responsibilities held:
−	Work with and support students taking the course; and
−	Assist professor with assignment creation and grading.

Graduate Teaching Assistant - Strategic Use of Digital Information in Enterprise.

Project Summary: Work alongside senior researchers to develop solutions that address Africa’s key challenges. 
Responsibilities held:
−	Worked to understand concepts and deliver solutions; and 
−	Provided support in facilitating field studies and collecting users requirements.

Research Intern

Project Summary: TerrAfrica is a project that focuses on improving land quality to sustain the performance of African Countries.	
Responsibilities held:		
−	Work with Project Design Lead to translate design mockup into working website prototype;
−	Provide maintenance and support; and
−	Provide automated translation of website.

The World Bank

Web Developer Consultant

Project Summary: Work alongside Carnegie Mellon Center of Excellence Administrative staff. 
Responsibilities held:
−	General office and course support and facilitation of events, conferences and workshops; and
−	Provided website and social media maintenance for CMU-R as well as graphic design support.

Administrative Assistant

- Manage, Engage and Grow Digital and Physical Community for Uganda’s 1st Tech Hub
- Manage Company Blogs, Newsletter & Subscribers using ConstantContact and Dreamweaver
- Ensure Hive Colab Events are well attended by using efficient communication prior to the event.
- Serve as Ambassador of Hive Colab to the community, identifying opportunities for Mentoring, Training & Partnerships
- Submit Ideas of events that would be beneficial to Technologists

HIVE COLAB

Digital Media Manager

- Web development using Wordpress & Drupal
- Manage Social Media Interfaces
- Write and manage different blogs
- Crochet Berets and Baby Clothing

Page's Lab

Founder/Developer

- Monitor the company’s presence on the social networking and other fan related pages and ensure brand is well represented
- Web development using Flash, Action Script, Javascript, Jquery, Wordpress & Drupal
- Work with various departments such as PR, Production & Branding, and attend relevant team, creative and communication meetings
- Manage organisations email accounts
- Design, convert and distribute the organisations newsletters
- Train and mentor the assistant Webmaster and supervise other web volunteers

Watoto

Interactive Coordinator

- Regularly update the websites.
- Work as a team player and interact with different teams.
- Help monitor organisation presence on Social Network sites
- Help with the training of volunteers
- Design Newsletters
- Act as a gap filler where-ever needed.
- Stand in on behalf of the webmaster

Webmaster's Assistant

- Answered IT support desk queries.
- Troubleshooting user issues with computers 
- Installing and repairing operating systems
- Assisting with trunking organisation's LAN

Lynn Kirabo, Ph.D.