User:RocketTestPilot

RocketTestPilot is a graduate student and interaction designer in the United States.

Academia
I'm earning my MA in design studies at Parsons The New School for Design, and I'm currently focused on writing my thesis on conditions of design for outer space and future technologies. I'll finish in the spring of 2015 after the end of an internship with NASA in the Human Systems Integration Division at the Ames Research Center.

Prior to beginning my masters degree, I graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a BFA and university honors. I majored in communication design, minored in ethics, and had a concentration in psychology. I transferred to Carnegie Mellon University from Academy of Art University, where I was in the BFA Web Design & New Media program.

Work
In the summers of 2013 and 2014, I interned at two user experience design firms, Cooper and Fuzzy Math. Most of what I did was interaction design and design strategy at both, but there was also some workshop planning at Cooper and blogging at Fuzzy Math. Clients included GE Healthcare, NPR, Wikipedia, the Chicago Architecture Foundation, and Datamyx.

For the summers from 2009 through 2012, I was the archery instructor at Montecito Sequoia Lodge, a family camp in Kings Canyon National Park where my camp name was "Apache." My qualifications included a Level 1 Instructor Certification from USA Archery, two years of practice at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista on a JOAD team, and 5 years as a KILT (counselor in leadership training) at the camp where I eventually worked.

Fun
I love going to blues and jazz clubs, with my favorite being Kingston Mines in Chicago. I also play guitar, swim, travel when possible, and play video games. While I was an undergraduate student, I helped start the CMU Humanist League and the CMU Archery Club.

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Userspace Drafts

 * 1)  Design studies
 * 2)  List of featured biographical articles by gender identity