Sarah D
Freelance UX Consultant at Goodwill Industries International
College Park, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolSarah D is a freelance UX consultant and strategic project manager with 11 years of experience designing human-centered research and communication programs for large nonprofit and federal clients. She has led complex usability and research efforts for agencies like CDC, NIH, and SAMHSA—running large-scale tests (100+ pages, 300+ participants) and tailoring findings for both technical and executive audiences. Skilled at stakeholder engagement, she connects cross-functional teams, mitigates risk, and documents repeatable workflows to ensure continuity across long-term projects. Her background managing communications and intranet experiences for 7,000+ users gives her a rare blend of user research rigor and practical product delivery. Sarah holds an MS in Human-Computer Interaction from the University of Maryland and is Nielsen Norman Group–certified, and she has applied DEI-minded hiring and recruitment practices to reduce bias in research and staffing. Colleagues describe her as a connector who translates complex research into actionable, audience-first solutions.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Human-Computer Interaction, Master of Science - MS Human-Computer Interaction at College of Information (INFO), University of MarylandNorthern Highlands Regional High SchoolBachelor's degree Sociology, Bachelor's degree Sociology at Washington College
English
Github Skills (18)
roamresearch8
discourse8
knowledge-representation8
open-science8
risk-assessment7
knowledge-graph6
risk-analysis6
corona5
academia5
bibtex4
open-source4
holochain4
python3
machine-learning1
training-data1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
megacognitionlab/schema-highlighter
Sep 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:14 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
oasisresearchlab/meta
Jul 2018 - Mar 2020
Contributions:19 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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