Jan 2012 - Present
Melanie Magdalena
- @m2creates
- 🦄 I create things! ✨ Equal parts coffee, creativity, & code.
- Austin, TX
- she/her
Resume
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UX Developer, Deytah
Jan 2017 - Mar 2019
Web Designer • UX Developer: Marketing • Data Scientist: Business Operations • Business Intelligence Manager, Easy Agent PRO
Aug 2014 - Sep 2015
Multimedia Specialist: Distance Learning, Central New Mexico Community College
Portfolio
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Joined Polywork as an early adopter and am now obsessively digging through my past to find cool things I want to highlight. If I clutter your feed for the next week with stuff from half a decade ag...
Content Management GUI Administrator • Blackboard #AddItToTheWall: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xo73wPyonQJ80f8eWxZfsuVu1JoRplPO/view
Course Delivery GUI Administrator • Blackboard #AddItToTheWall: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ALOu9Z5oR869yPEXV98WC_ztdo4RF6OX/view
Web Designer and more • Easy Agent PRO • Jan 2017 - Mar 2019 Joined the remote team at Easy Agent PRO as a web designer to build out LeadSites. Due to the very small team, I accumulated several add...
🏕 Archaeolife
Let's study archaeology! • Austin Community College • Aug 2010 - Dec 2011 Started my undergraduate coursework. I tailored my "core curriculum" requirements to help my degree become a "career": • Pu...
Lab Research Assistant • Aug 2013 - May 2014 I volunteered at one of UNM's Anthropology labs during my undergrad so I could get "behind-the-scenes" experience. One day, my supervisor handed me a st...
🌱 Volunteering
Project Build-A-Park • Environmental Clean-up Helped clear trails in Zilker Park, Austin, Texas with Austin Community College (ACC) Student Life.
Project Build-A-Park • Environmental Clean-up Helped clear trails in Roy G. Guerrero Colorado River Park, Austin, Texas with Austin Community College (ACC) Student Life during the 10th Annual Proje...
AIDS Walk Austin • Phi Theta Kappa (Alpha Gamma Pi chapter) Our Riverbats group teamed up to participate in AIDS Walk Austin!
Cookies for a Cure Bake Sale • National Society of Leadership & Success Alongside some fellow students, we hosted a bake sale to raise funds for cancer research. This was my first attempt at a fund...
🏝 Travel & Adventure
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Spent Thanksgiving hiking Chaco Canyon. Pueblo Bonito was my favorite spot - which looks incredible from up high!
BLM/OCA Geoarchaeology • Apr 2013 Eight hours of survey experience, in addition to 4 days of excavation and mapping experience, in Northwest New Mexico at the site San Luis de Cabezón with the New ...
Belize Valley Archaeological Reconnaissance Project • Jun 2013 Four weeks experience at the site Baking Pot, in the Belize Valley, under Dr. Jaime J. Awe, from the Belize Institute of Archaeology. ...
Got Glassy in San Francisco.
✨ I’ve been featured!
Got a shout-out in the Anthropology newsletter (Chair's Corner section) for working on the department's website. #AddItToTheWall: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oA4i8qm8yMKNKRTZN9WCV5vAqKz5ggyw/view
The Silo • Issue Mar-Apr 2012 • The Maya of Belize: Use of Human Space My first piece of research was published in a newspaper! In Canada! The article is an abridged version of my Ethnoarchaeology ...
🦄 Side Projects
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Stream Sites • streamsites.xyz • JAMstack for Content Creators #LetsCreate a website for broadcast-focused content creators to help maximize their audience reach and take back ownership of their co...
#LetsCreate a Flygon cosplay! Went old-school paper towel and glue mode on some styrofoam bits to craft my staff. Then sewed the dress by hand cuz I couldn't figure out how to use the sewing machin...
#LetsCreate a Quidditch cosplay! Quidditch in space anyone? Had a fun night at Albuquerque's Natural History and Science Museum for Halloween.
#LetsCreate recycled jewelry/art! As an aside to blogging (BermudaQuest) I started making recycled arts and crafts to earn some extra cash. Running the blog wasn't expensive, but it also wasn't ent...
🏆 Awards - #AddItToTheWall
Superior Undergraduate Student Award • Sigma Xi Recognizes an Undergraduate Student of UNM who has distinguished herself by outstanding academic performance, interest, and dedication to science. #A...
Public Anthropology Award • Center for Public Anthropology One of twenty students awarded by the Center for a Public Anthropology at the University of New Mexico for an opinion paper addressing leg...
National Excellence in Leadership • National Society of Leadership & Success, Sigma Alpha Pi chapter Entitled to all honors, benefits, privileges, and responsibilities of the Society as an award of...
👀 Things I’ve Built
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The Summit on Race in America • lbjsummitonrace.org • LBJ Foundation • Jul 2019 - Aug 2019 The LBJ Foundation hosted a Summit on Race in America and needed a website update to include the panel rec...
LBJ Liberty & Justice For All Award • lbjaward.org • LBJ Foundation • Jun 2019 - Jul 2019 Designed a microsite for the LBJ Award to house all the award recipients with event photos, videos, press r...
LeadSites Onboarding Responsibilities: User Research and Analytics. The goal: Identify "aha" moments to present on the Dashboard starting page to inform users of required next steps, easy first act...
LeadSites Sign Up + Pricing Responsibilities: Content Strategy, Web Design, Web Development, and Analytics. The goal: Design a sign up page compatible with the new checkout system and increase 30-d...
🎤 Videos & Podcasts
Inked: A 5,000 Year Old Tattooing Tradition Among Us Presented for the first time at AGSU! Abstract: Body adornment with images and symbols is prominent in our time. The meanings of tattoos are per...
BuiltOnAir • Season 3 • Episode 8 In this episode, I showcase a base I created to calculate the scores of student assessments; and details "an extremely creative way" to get the data I need in the ...