Tynan Purdy

Education

Experience

Cognizant

• Collaborated with full stack software engineers to create working software prototypes
• Used Figma and other design tools to create and present high-fidelity designs
• Conducted user research and usability testing to inform design decisions

Design Bloc

• Teach students and faculty design thinking to implement design in their professions
• Assist teaching service design in community co-design course
• Co-designed community brand for the Historic Hunter Hills neighborhood

Interactive Product Design Lab

• Guide multidisciplinary students to use the resources in the lab in their interactive projects
• Facilitate interactive product skills workshops for undergraduate and graduate students
• Lead open-lab lecture events on tech and design to enrich the campus design community

Research

Codecraft Group

• Developed applications for interactive kirigami prototyping such as folding PC mouse
• Rapid prototyped with laser cut materials to experiment with kirigami properties
• Co-Author of Kirisense: Making Rigid Materials Bendable and Interactive, under review

SimTigrate Design Lab

• Assisted the lab in transitioning to a larger team structure
• Lead user research with the faculty and student employees to understand workflows
• Evaluated options for available tools to suit the needs of the whole team
• Designed team operation system, affording communication, tasks, and file storage

Georgia Tech Research Institute CIPHER TMPO

• Prototyped pressure-sensitive piezoelectric floor tiles for large scale room security system
• Collaborated with vertically integrated team of undergraduate and HS students
• Scaled prototype from 1 to a fully functioning grid of 9 tiles

Georgia Tech Research Institute ATAS FPTD

• Detected blueberry ripeness with NIR spectroscopy for farmers to distinguish ripe vines
• Improved the custom sensor performance to 80+% confidence
• Miniaturized Arduino-controlled device form by ~150%

Leadership

FIRST® Robotics Competition

• Captained Fernbank LINKS Robotics team in marketing, engineering, communication, and operations
• Managed team marketing: video production, social media posts, conference tabling to facilitate sponsorship, recruiting, and award submissions
• Earned Engineering Inspiration and Chairman's awards for STEM education outreach, advancing to state and world championships all 4 years

FIRST LEGO League

• Taught middle and elementary students techniques in robot design, programming, and sensor use
• Volunteer game announcer and master of ceremonies at tournaments
• Served every team in DeKalb County, GA

Skills