Unica Le
Creator | Designer | Innovator
Short Film of My UW CEP Capstone Project
HEARO (Holistic Educators & Advocates Reaching Out) is a student-led initiative that aims to advocate, inspire, and empower community & technical college students to achieve academic-career success and healthy lifestyles.
ACHIEVEMENTS:
- Built and led end-to-end development of 3 wellness programs to advocate for underrepresented college students, which resulted in an increase in social media engagement by 88% and a 50% increase in representation within 9 months
- Led the relaunch of a new front-end platform with new web-based tools and methodologies for my executive team increasing membership by 15%
- Supervised the planning, development, and implementation of B2E SaaS product to enable low-income, first-generation, and international students to connect with career professionals for support, which grew to 100+ active members
- Spearheaded an online wellness retreat with 3 cross-functional stakeholders and hosted 10+ holistic wellness (yoga, mindfulness, self-defense, and more) workshops for 100+ registered participants from 7 states and 5 countries, which resulted in an increase of participants by +70%
Academic Virtual Reality, BC STEM Squared Project
Built a cinematic virtual lab simulator with a team of 5 to access educational visualizations beyond the traditional classroom, using VR Steam, Unity Engine, and Google's Tilt Brush, and implementing weekly sprints and agile methodologies within 6 months
- Increased user engagement by 70% after leading on-campus VR club workshops and collaborating with key opinion experts and stakeholders on business objectives
- Worked in cross-functional teams to improve engineer productivity by projecting value-added
- Designed, developed, and defined product features from ideation to execution
