Camila Proffitt

About Camila Proffitt

I recently completed my master\'s degree in Human Centered Design and Engineering at University of Washington with interest in hardware prototyping, design, and user research. If there is anything I have learned over the last 11 years in the engineering industry is that I enjoy hands-on working, my curiosity is never ending, and I thrive on the opportunity to learn from the brilliant minds in the industry. My goal is to be involved in creating products that make a positive impact on users lives. If you share the same interests, let\'s connect!

Experience

1. Flight Deck Engineering Ux Design & Prototyping Lead

   Boeing

   Aug 2022 — Present · Everett, WA, US

   Leading a team in changing the way we approach human factors design, research, and validation in the aviation industry by leveraging UX research and design principles used in industry today specifically to develop methods and processes used to determine usability and human readiness at earlier stages in the design lifecycle.• Managing all team members work statement using ADO/Agile to effectively plan and prioritize while providing management with visibility of work and progress• Defining statement of work and hours for team in collaboration with each airplane program and their research/prototyping forecasted needs• Supporting team members in planning actions, estimating flow time, prioritizing work, and technical mentoring• Facilitating the development of a new process to define current and future flight deck user personas to inform design philosophy and functional requirements• Supporting airplane programs with introducing and implementing new prototyping techniques or user research methods for any design that falls between early validation phase to certification • Establishing new standards to associate various levels of prototyping fidelity to the appropriate test/research methods for user validation during different design lifecycle stages• Identifying tools, devices, and environments that could support early stage design using low to medium fidelity prototypes to support faster design iterations

Education

• University of Washington

  Master of Science - MS, Human Centered Design Engineering

  2018 — 2020

• University of Washington

  Human-Centered Design Engineering

• Penn State University

  Graduate Certificate, Human Factors Engineering

  2017 — 2018

• Penn State University

  Bachelor's degree, Civil/ Structural Engineering

  2009 — 2013

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Certificate, Architecture & Systems Engineering

  2016 — 2017

• Penn State University

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Civil Engineering

  2009 — 2013

Skills

• Dale Carnegie: Skills for Success
• Photoshop
• Engineering
• Powerpoint
• Microsoft Excel
• Lua
• Msc Patran
• Computer Vision
• C#
• Digital Image Processing
• Artificial Neural Networks
• Autocad
• Data Analysis
• Java
• Arduino
• User Interface Design
• Python
• Microsoft Office
• Nastran
• C
• Programming
• Civil Engineering
• Project Management
• Matlab
• Deep Learning
• C++
• Machine Learning
• Catia
• Structural Analysis
• Torch7
• Microsoft Word
• Android Development
• Finite Element Analysis