Rachel Murray

Current projects include: - Speaking with companies to find my next team - Advisory Committee Member, FoXX: Advising executive leadership on product strategy, technology roadmap prioritization, and community engagement for FemTech healthcare startup, monitoring emerging trends in women's health technology. - Working Group Member, Universal Design Database for the Starkloff Disability Institute: Building a database to help practitioners incorporate Universal Design, including user analysis, content analysis, and creating infrastructure (including grant identification, partner support and technical assessment). - Building out an AI event aggregator application and an AI based wellness recommendation rules engine. - Founder of a social entrepreneurship venture for marginalized community (in stealth mode)

Women's Health is a personal passion of mine, and I'm delighted to be joining the advisory committee supporting the FoXX team with product accessibility, usability and community adoption of the FoXX Health mobile app.

Neal is a marketplace for creative services focusing on: - Hiring fractional leaders: Experts who can hold critical interim executive roles - Building project teams: Building teams swiftly with top-tier vetted talent - Access on-demand expertise: Seasoned leaders on demand in approaching complex leadership challenges You can read more about Neol here: https://www.fastcompany.com/91089315/design-leaders-are-in-their-reinvention-era

How might we create products to drive impact? - Conducted qualitative research, advised on go-to-market strategy, and supervised junior designer resulting in successful mobile app launch and highly ratings in app store - Managed production and created content for Responsible Tech playbook as co-lead of working group, resulting in work at the United Nations - Conducted quantitative and qualitative research and UI design for Federal clients, including a chatbot, clinical decision support platform, and Long COVID data platform, resulting in successful launches - As product manager and designer, conducted research (translating interviews into product ideas via features/epics, user stories, and a roadmap) and designed UI for an InfoSec application resulting in a successful MVP for 0-1 product - Conducted research and design for a rules-based Web application which automate pricing for 250,000 items in real time, resulting in successful launch - Led service design workshops to streamline order management for industrial manufacturer, resulting in successful business case and project extension - Leadership: Managed performance evaluation and mentored three junior UX designers and contributed design expertise to sales proposals

How might we explore innovation, community and healthcare? During this time I explored a few side projects spinning off from my work during my Master's thesis. I also acted as a caregiver to an elderly family member going through health challenges.

How might we create technology for the public good, help teach design to civic tech entrepreneurs, and build capacity for community-based organizations? Civic Hall is a community space that builds civic tech for public good via our R&D non-profit, Civic Hall Labs. - Product management: Led research and product management and supervised development team for ReferNYC Open Data exchange, resulting in product acquisition by the City of New York as part of their 'Social Service Location Data Project' (https://www1.nyc.gov/site/opportunity/portfolio/social-service-location.page) - Research and community design: Achieved buy-in from community agencies by co-facilitating community-centered design sessions and conducting interviews, resulting in signed contracts - Fundraising: Wrote and received $25,000 grant - Leadership: Created and taught curriculum on user research and prototyping for Civic Xcel civic incubator, and spoke on equity-centered community design in civic tech, resulting in greater brand recognition

How might we bring the value of Agile to create innovative interactive products for clients? - Design and research: Led interviews, designed wireframes, prototypes, and usability testing on classroom management and curriculum delivery Web application for Amplify and marketing application for Yodle, resulting in successful product launches - Business development: Secured new client engagement for Black Book leading proposals and delivering sales pitches, resulting in new contract

How might we create design, marketing and strategy to a passionate set of clients? • Design and research: Led user research, content strategy, branding and wireframes for 21st Century Fox and Visualize for Social Edge Consulting and led usability testing, analyzing quantitative and qualitative data and creating recommendations for Hitlab, resulting in successful FDA approval for AdhereTech. • Leadership: Managed content migration team and relationship with design agency and senior leadership for Weil Gotshal Manges resulting in redesigned Web application.

How might we use strategy and design to help clients in the technology sector stay innovative, engaging and ahead of the curve in a time of rapid acceloration? • Design and research: Led user research, content strategy, wireframes and prototypes for enterprise tech sector clients. • Project management: Produced successful innovation event and product launch for Delta by managing workstreams and vendor relationship with HP and 70+ attendees across the 3 companies. • Community: Designed content strategy and community outreach for Jive launch for PwC, resulting in recognizing as ‘Collaboration Advocate’ by firm during company All-Hands. In addition to the successes of the individual projects, a key achievement I'm most proud of was being selected to participate in the Emerging Technologies Lab out of Chicago, a 3 month internal lab 'fellowship' program. The project I designed - the Emerging Technologies Radar - is featured on the PwC Web site at https://www.pwc.com/us/en/increasing-it-effectiveness/emerging-technology-lab.html.

How might we create engaging design and marketing experiences for a variety of startups and enterprise clients? • Managed external vendor for booth creation and redesigned Web site for Sandbridge Technologies at Mobile World Congress, resulting in company acquisition by Qualcomm • Led cross-disciplinary team as project manager for Girls for a Change, resulting in successfully relaunched Web site • Led cross-disciplinary team and created content to deliver event and Web site launch for Single Life Camp, resulting in press coverage and multi-city events

This program within the School of Design Strategies at Parsons is a two year Master's degree focused on 'collaborative design-led research and a systems-oriented approach to social innovation and service design'. It focuses on a number of themes: design ethics, design thinking, human centered design, service design social innovation, systems thinking and building the future of a transdisciplinary design practice. Year 1: First semester studio on disaster and community, Design Led Research, Second semester studio on Speculative Design, Design in Dark Times, Urban Interaction Design, Collaborating with Urban Communities Year 2: Final semester studio on end of life and design, Professional Communications, Urban Commons, Thesis Preparation, Thesis Course (weekly progress on Masters thesis) On my Web site you'll hear more about my experiences of what I learned and why this was a life-changing experience. #parsonsproud

Courses in graphic design fundamentals, Design for the Web, Publishing and Production for the Web, Interface design and Dreamweaver.

Courses in Business Analysis, Information Architecture, Knowledge Management, Taxonomies, Usability and User Interface Design

Major in the Ethics, Society, and Law Interdisciplinary Program, Trinity College; minors in Philosophy and in Psychoanalytic Thought Courses include: - Philosophy related: Environmental Ethics, Ethics and Computer Science, Ethics and Mental Health, Philosophy and Gender, Philosophy of War, Western Philosophy - Others: Drama, Semiotics and Post Structuralism, Seminar in Psychoanalytic Thought, Sociology