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Mariam Mayanja

Project Manager
Seattle,WA

Summary

Adaptable Project Manager with distinguished knowledge of designing and proposing projects and managing operational infrastructure. Proven leadership skills with customer-oriented management and program introduction. Adept at Human Computer Interaction with training in building enterprise business products. Articulate, self-directed and motivational leader well-versed in full project lifecycle for SaaS industry needs.

Overview

4
4
years of post-secondary education
3
3
years of professional experience

Work History

Project Lead and Researcher

University of WashingtonCenter for Informed Public
12.2020 - Current
  • Drives multiple, concurrent projects analyzing social media data accumulated during the pandemic
  • Is primary owner and driver of project regarding protests and public health mandate resistance that arose during the pandemic
  • Works within The Center for an Informed Public to analyze ~5,000 archived Twitter posts where users argue public mask mandates
  • Responsible for qualitative coding of tweets, developing coding protocols, and literature review
  • Preformed case-study analysis of data causing changes in the prevalence of different theories Uses Twitter’s API alongside Tableau, SQL, and qualitative coding to analyze discourse, trends, and timelines to blend data with real-time events
  • Proactively cleans data and resolves strategic issues that may impair team’s ability to meet research goals.

UX/UI Design and Research Intern

Microsoft
Redmond, WA
06.2020 - 09.2020
  • Formed a profile for “front line workers” to use internally at Microsoft through comprehensive end-to-end research that resulted in updated to our marketing, design, and coding best practices
  • Conducted user research on large enterprise customers across 4 countries
  • Used critical thinking to break down data from front line worker shared device workflows into market research for M365 to craft a powerful and elegant user experience
  • Established a list of short and long term product goals and investments for the Microsoft 365 team across leadership and SWE levels to enhance our overall product offerings
  • Used coordination and planning skills to achieve results according to schedule
  • Demonstrated respect, friendliness and willingness to help wherever needed in our cross-functional team

Explore (Project Manager and SWE) Intern

Microsoft
Redmond, WA
06.2019 - 09.2019
  • Created the Shared By Me page in OneDrive for Business in collaboration with engineers and business owners
  • Defined metrics to drive success in the redesign and create a consistent, unified experience across the OneDrive platform
  • Found new features to add in redesign through research with large external enterprise customers and created measures for success in the tools redesign
  • Improved the code quality of the tool by refactoring code and adding essential features.
  • Used coordination and planning skills to achieve results according to schedule

Project Manager and Research Design Fellow

Department of Veterans Affairs
06.2018 - 08.2018
  • Selected from a competitive applicant pool of 850+ with an acceptance rate of 4.2%
  • Led project management, user research, usability testing, and synthesis for the GI Bill Feedback Tool which culminated in various high fidelity prototypes
  • Developed executive presentations and reports to facilitate project evaluation and process improvement
  • Identified, reviewed and applied policies and procedures by exercising informed judgment to achieve optimal performance

Founder and Chair

Minorities In Tech At The University Of Washington
Seattle, WA
10.2019 - Current
  • Founded to create and foster an environment that celebrates differences and comes together in solidarity for one another the Allen School
  • Recruited over 100 student members and industry partners
  • Focus on metric-driven success inspired by students experience by running user research with the Allen School student body
  • Led team of 9 other leaders in faciliting novel DE&I efforts in the Computer Science Department
  • Cultivated forward-thinking, inclusive and performance-oriented culture to lead the Computer Science Department towards more progress in DE&I

Scholar Speaker

Washington State Opportunity Scholarship
Seattle, WA
05.2019 - 11.2019
  • Delivered a speech to an audience of 1,000+ people for WSOS which helped raise over one million dollars for STEM scholarships
  • For a full CV, including 4 additional work experiences in tech, half a dozen social good projects, and leadership experience please email

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

The University of Washington
Seattle, WA
01.2017 - 01.2021

Skills

User Interface (UI) design

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Affiliations

  • Society of Women Engineers
  • Association for Computing Machinery

Software

Java

C

JavaScript

Figma

SQL

Tableau

HTML/CSS

Timeline

Project Lead and Researcher

University of WashingtonCenter for Informed Public
12.2020 - Current

UX/UI Design and Research Intern

Microsoft
06.2020 - 09.2020

Founder and Chair

Minorities In Tech At The University Of Washington
10.2019 - Current

Explore (Project Manager and SWE) Intern

Microsoft
06.2019 - 09.2019

Scholar Speaker

Washington State Opportunity Scholarship
05.2019 - 11.2019

Project Manager and Research Design Fellow

Department of Veterans Affairs
06.2018 - 08.2018

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

The University of Washington
01.2017 - 01.2021

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