Alexander Lee

As a freelance UX designer, I develop mobile and webapp design projects with clients in the Stanford Design Institute. I conduct user interviews to synthesize user needs and improve user interface features, design wireframe and inVision prototypes using Sketch and deliver high-fidelity prototypes using HTML/CSS and Javascript.

Farming Hope is an organization born from the d.school's FEED Collaborative program. We are dedicated to creating a business model that connects unhoused individuals in the Bay Area to sustainable food practices through urban farming. As a Co-Founder, I was in charge of spearheading the needfinding process by organizing meetings and interviews with major stakeholders. I was also responsible for creating a business plan for Farming Hope and what structure it will take on as we grow outside an incubator. Finally, I managed undergraduate volunteers and part-time members as a Junior at Stanford.

As a summer intern, I spent five weeks helping engineers in the design process of multiple product lines. I sketched designs for new utensil handles, rendered models in Solidworks, and printed 3D prototypes for meetings. I worked in the shop to produce foam models of handles, ice cream scoops and molcajete bowls. I helped repair old prototypes and assembled new ones from newly printed parts. I also modified existing Starbucks models in Solidworks to create new conceptual designs.

I learned fixed income analysis using company software, programming in C++, and price-yield relationships.

As part of the Architecture, Construction and Engineering (ACE) Program, I, along with other high school students, worked on a theoretical engineering project guided by industry professionals. At weekly meetings, we would deliberate different architectural and engineering decisions for our final project, which was a school for the disabled. I worked on the structural aspects of the building, such as calculating the moments of inertia of cross beams for each floor.

My work at the Boston University Biomicroscopy Lab (PI: Jerome Mertz) was focused on testing a novel form of microscopy called reverse-oblique back illumination microscopy (reverse-OBM). My six week term at the lab involved designing a microscope part in AutoCAD, developing a high pass filter for the lab setup, and correlating microscope results using MATLAB.