Hi! My name is Ray, and I’ve worked in higher education for nearly 20 years as a user experience designer, product manager, and front end developer crafting both rich web and data experiences supporting student success at the University of California, Irvine.
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I have led design efforts for a variety of campus-wide web applications and data analytics projects on campus, including:
<aside> <img src="/icons/star-of-life_blue.svg" alt="/icons/star-of-life_blue.svg" width="40px" /> **UCI Spark:** A student-first dashboard intelligently connecting students to campus resources. Learn more about it on the Spark info site →
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<aside> <img src="/icons/stars_purple.svg" alt="/icons/stars_purple.svg" width="40px" /> **ZotGPT and ZotGPT Chat:** UC Irvine’s home for AI, ZotGPT provides the campus with vital information and access to supported gen AI tools. And, ZotGPT Chat provides a secure gen AI experience to staff, faculty, and students.
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<aside> <img src="/icons/send-to_yellow.svg" alt="/icons/send-to_yellow.svg" width="40px" /> **Compass ScoreShare:** Allows advisors to securely access assignment scores for students during the quarter.
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**Compass Student Attribute Manager:** Provides a way for staff to augment student data by defining and uploading custom cohorts, which are then made available through a Tableau-based analytics toolkit.
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<aside> <img src="/icons/activity_green.svg" alt="/icons/activity_green.svg" width="40px" /> **Compass Teaching & Learning Analytics:** Home to a variety of Cognos reports and Tableau dashboards aimed at providing academic leaders, instructors, and advisors with rich, curated student data in support of UCI’s ongoing student success efforts.
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For each of the above projects, I contributed as the sole user experience designer and product manager, collaborating with a small, talented team of web developers and BI/data architects.
As part of my role as a senior individual contributor at UC Irvine, I have also been a key member of several efforts to implement substantial changes in support of our student success goals.
In partnership with the Director for Data & Information Management, I recommended and was then selected to onboard UC Irvine to the Unizin collaborative. Both the recommendation and onboarding required substantial teamwork and project management skills, including: