Hi! My name is Ray, and I’ve worked in higher education for over 20 years as a user experience designer, product manager, and front end developer crafting 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, ZotGPT Chat, ZotGPT ClassChat, ZotGPT Creator:** 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.
ClassChat enables instructors to create purpose-made AI agents for their classes using their secured class contents.
Creator will allow anybody at UCI to create an AI agent to help quickly answer questions, support administrative processes, and more.
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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. This is a custom site built using the React-based GatsbyJS in combination with DaisyUI.
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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: