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Résumé

Valentina Calvache 

 

Recent experience

San Francisco Department of Public Health / UX Designer (Contract)
 

  • Designed, tested, and iterated low and high fidelity wireframes for desktop and responsive web for SFDPH’s Air Quality and Heat over a 3-week sprint. 

  • Conducted both qualitative and quantitative user research to inform an user-centered design.

  • Interpreted and analyzed research results through the lenses of UX. 

  • Created the content strategy for a content-driven design.

  • Prioritized and aligned client’s goals and user’s core needs. 

  • Collaborated with SFDPH’s Food as Medicine and Gender Health teams to develop a comprehensive information architecture across the different websites. 

UX research

UX design

UX writing

Content strategy

General Assembly / UX Design Apprentice
 

  • Designed ‘now’, a mobile app, within a two week timeframe by conducting guerrilla research and synthesizing findings, developing lo-fi wireframes, rapid prototyping, and usability testing, to prioritize user-centered features in the final product.

Guerrilla research 

Agile

Rapid prototyping

Conversational design

User testing

University of California San Diego / Research and Teaching Assistant 
 

  • Instructed a new group of 45+ students per quarter, maintaining an average student rating of 93%

  • Developed curricula materials and completed administrative record duties

  • Worked alongside tenured professors to advance 3+ research projects on multilingualism, critical film and literature studies, and creative writing.

  • Served as faculty liaison, “New Writing Series” readings organizer, and first year graduate student mentor.

Public speaking

Teaching

Empathy

Management

Freelance Writer / California College of the Arts, Vice en Español, Planeta Publishing House, Rio Grande Review, and 15+ magazines and journals 
 

  • Strategized and produced content (nonfiction and fiction) for publication. Select reading: 

Content strategy

SEO

Storytelling

Writing

Copy editing

UCSD’s Alchemy: Journal of Translation / Editor-in-chief 
 

  • Led the scouting and curation of top-level translational works in a team of 3

  • Strategized content and themes to increase reading engagement

  • Collaborated across disciplines in the university to experiment with translation and multilingualism in different fields of study (cognitive science, political science, among others)

Localization

Management

Content strategy

Marketing

Etraining / Communications assistant

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  • Designed and strategized products of internal and external communication

  • Collaborated cross-functionally with the design and communications team in projects concerning technology and education 

  • Created the company’s style and content guidelines 

  • Researched on corporate identity and branding for 10+ clients 

  • Assisted in public tendering projects with Colombia’s Ministry of Technology

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