TARO ITO

Full-Stack UX Engineer

Hi, I am Taro

Full-Stack UX Engineer, you've probably never heard of this role because it's a term that I coined to best describe what I do.

I studied User Experience (UX) in grad school and graduated during the COVID-19 pandemic. I took advantage of the drastic economic slowdown and decided to fill in the gap that existed between UX experts and software developers. Most UX experts understand how end-users operate but very few can effectively call API and program the very UI that is under analysis.

As a Full-Stack-UX-Engineer, I have experience in both domains. I can help organizations and teams that are yet to build a dedicated UX team from studying users’ behaviors and product’s usability to actually programming it

Click to view: Full-stack Web/App Projects
Click to view: UX/HF Research

Web/App Dev

Full Project Websites:

• Employee Salary Analysis *may take upto 30 secs to clean & process data
• Health Care Portal
• Text Comparison App GitHub Repo
• API Geolocation & Weather

Resume - Job Description Comparison App

Overview

• Develped an algorithm to compared two text files
• Reads text files removes conjunctions and other irrlelvant words (e.g., our, much, at)
• Makes a list of all remaining words for each file (i.e., resume & job description)
• Counts how many times each word appeared in the file
• Take words and counts from both files and creates pandas DataFrame which is sorted by job description words in descending order
• Uses scikit-learn and calculates the similarity

Input Page

Output Page

Data Science: Organization Employee Analysis

Overview

• Read data from multiple csv, txt, and xcel files that has all employee information, raise schedule, raise amout, and etc.
• Clean extracted data (e.g., remove symbols)
• Decipher salary for specific employees
• Create pandas DataFrame with extracted data

• Calculate how long each employee has worked by subtracting one's first day from today
• Group employees by department
• Group employees by the years worked
• Create a bar graph for each dept using matplotlib
• Convert bar image to url via base64
• Use Flask & Jinja to export image to html

• Calculate raise amount and the salary in accordance to raise schedule for each employee
• Add calculated values to main table for all employees
• Create table using html
• Populate html talbe using Jinja

• Group employees by gender
• Use matplotlib to create a distribution curve for salary for eeach gender
• Convert bar image to url via base64
• Use Flask & Jinja to export image to html

Application: Health Care Portal

overview

• Create health care portal accessible by web browswers and create & store data in a database
• Read & clean all files that conatain data for this project
• Analyze extracted data and create tables in database accordingly (e.g., consistent column names)
• Connect to database and upload cleaned data to appropriate tables

Medical Code Search

• Takes a complete medical code
• Search database for given code
• Returns all information
• Dispaly the result in table using jinja & html

• Takes a partial or complete last name
• Searches database for given name
• Returns all info on employees whose last name match or include the name under search
• Turns the last 3 letters of each employee's last & first name into "X"
• Counts the number of record found
• Dispaly the result in table using jinja & html

HF/UX Research

Application Portal Evaluation

overview

• Assess and improve the usability of the application portal
• Data collection via:
• Difficulty Assessment
• Umux Lite
• TUS
• MS Desirability Toolkit
• ID problem(s)
• Solve them!

Research Questions & Goals

1. Uncover Usability Deficiencies
2. Find Opportunities
3. Benchmark with Metrics
4. Identify Solutions

methodology

• Participants: 20 users (12 remote & 8 in-person | 11 females & 9 males | between 19 - 51)
• UX Tools:
• UserTesting.com
• Morae
• Google Drive
• Sketch
• Metrics:
• UMUX Lite
• NPS
• Task Usability Scoring
• MS Desirability Reaction Words

results

solutions

Clearer and Brighter Content Display

Before	After

summary

5 Key Design Improvements

Work

Lead Full-Stack Developer

Geaux Network

Jul 2022 - Present

• Engineered over 10,000 sets of data pertaining to service users and providers
• Managed Firebase server & database
• Resolved/debugged over 200 conflicts
• Executed 2 UX study on products UI
• Developed back-end program with Python and Django
• Managed front-end program using JavaScript, React, and Node

Machine Learning Data Analyst

SalesForce

Jun 2022 - Present

• Assisted in AI/ML development
• Analyzed over 2,000 data collected by machine learning model currently under development

Assist. Instructor

Sasaki Judo

Nov 2022 - Present

• Inspired and trained young students with Autism Spectrum Disorder through Judo
• Provided insights to UCF Dept. Health Science

Group Fitness Instructor

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Jun 2022 - Sep 2022

• Coach and help students achieve their fitness goals
• Developed a very unique and effective training program based on my experience in MMA training

Linguistic Tester

WeLocalize

2020 - 2021

• Evaluate user input collected by client
• Refine & update existing system’s interpretation of user’s command & queries
• Provide information for client's AI

UX Researcher

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University:
Aging, Perception & Performance Lab (APPL)

2018 - 2019 & 2020 - 2021

• Support APPL’s lead researcher and principal researcher
• Identify target & goals
• Evaluate research methods
• Conduct literature review
• Develop surveys
• Data collection & anaysis
• Develop research reports

Japanese Office Manager & Safety Investigtor

Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. America

2019 - 2020

• Flight Safety Management Office
• Facilitate cross-cultural & cross-departmental efforts
• Bridged Japan-US cultutal gaps
• Initiated and led Foreign Object Debris Committee & Occupational Safety Improvement that involved several depts
• Made significant contribution in executing an enterprise-wide event organized by our team

Emergency Service Dispatcher

Japan Ministry of Defense

2013 - 2019

• 100% team work: members rely on one other to complete the job
• Effectively interview anxious, terrified, and / or disturbed callers
• Obtain information essential for first-responders
• Become thoroughly familiar with other team members' roles to provide direct assistance when necessary

Education

2021 - 2022

Code Immersives (Digital Film Academy)

Python Computer rogramming Certificate

• GPA: 3.90
• Python: 900 hours of Programming
• Databse Operation: store, retrieve, & update database via MySQL, SQLite, SQLAlchemy, & MongoDB
• Data Science: develop autonomous process and vasualization (charts & tables) of large data via pandas, matplotlib, & scikit-learn
• Web Development: utilize Flask, Django, Jinja & html
• Version Control System: utilize Github and collaborate with other developers
• Amazon Web Service (AWS): learn the fundamentals of AWS

2017 - 2019

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Master of Science: Human Factors

• GPA: 3.33
• Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
• Statistical Analysis
• Research Methods
• Human Factors Engineering
• Ergonomics
• Aviatino Finance
• Corporate Finance

2015 - 2017

University of Maryland University College

Bachelor of Science: Psychology

• GPA: 3.89
• Research Methods
• Cross-Cultural Psychology
• Statistics
• Psychological Statistics,

2006 - 2009

University of South Floridae

Bachelor of Arts & Science: Economics

• Computers in Business
• Principles of Management
• Business Calculus

Skills

Computer programming & Data Science

• Python
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Java Script
• MySQL
• SQLite
• SQLAlchemy
• MongoDB
• Data Analysis
• Data Visualization
• Data Cleaning
• numpy
• pandas
• matplotlib
• scipy
• scikit-learn
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Version Control System
• Github
• Gitlab
• Debugging/Debug
• Unit Test
• Refactoring/Refactor
• Application/Website Launch
• Flask
• Django
• Jinja
• html
• static
• templates
• Models
• api
• app

Human Factors (HF) & User Experience (UX)

• User-Centric Design
• User-Centered Design
• Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
• Task Analysis
• Cognitive Analysis
• Interface Anaysis
• Workload Assessment
• Situational Awareness Assessment
• Heuristic Evaluation
• Hierarchical Task Analysis
• Human Factors Analysis Classification System (HFACS)
• Software & Website Prototype/Mockup
• NASA TLX
• Website Analysis & Measurement Inventory (Interface Analysis)
• Task Performance Time Analysis

Research & Statistics

• ANOVA
• MANOVA
• T-test
• Correlation
• Regression
• Factor analysis/li>
• Survey
• Natural Observation
• Remote Observation
• Direct Observation
• Focus Group
• Card Sorting
• Interview
• SPSS

Communication Skills

• Organize cross-cultural team efforts
• Organize cross-departmental team efforts

Ptototype & Mockup

• Axure
• Tableau

Office Software

• Microsoft Office Word
• Microsoft Office PowerPoint
• Microsoft Office Excell
• Microsoft Office Teams
• Microsoft Office Outlook

Languages

• Japanese (mother tongue)
• English

Contact

email: taro.ito.hf@gmail.com

• LinkedIn
• GitHub

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