Madison Blaize Russ

Senior Product Designer / LeanTaaS

Designing healthcare operations products for iQueue for OR, focused on Case Coordination, Patient Prep, AI Voice Agents, HIE medical chart synthesis, and Patient Readiness scores for PAT teams.

Research Scientist, Data Visualizations / Oden Institute, The University of Texas at Austin

Creating 3D terrain models and visual assets to communicate hurricane impacts, coastline vulnerability, storm surge, and environmental risk.

Lead Product Designer / Backpack

Led product design for complex building-performance data products, including navigation, reporting, Energy Star workflows, and portfolio-level data systems.

Digital Design Engineer Sr. Analyst / Citibank

Served as UX architect and designer for a Risk and Controls dashboard supporting regulatory risk, compliance workflows, and information hierarchy.

Associate Designer / Sensory Interactive

Contributed to connected experience research for real estate, IoT technology, data scraping, workplace digitization, and business strategy visualization.

FloDisMod and coastal visualization research / Oden Institute

Developing visualizations of vulnerable coastal communities by combining model outputs, terrain, LiDAR, aerial imagery, and architectural modeling techniques.

Data Visualizations / URI Graduate School of Oceanography

Created hurricane impact visualizations using SLOSH model data, ArcGIS, Rhino, and R; managed building-library assets for faster rendering.

Graduate Research Assistant / RISD Nature Lab

Modeled the RISD campus using Rhino, ArcGIS Pro, and CityEngine; trained students on 3D scanning, high-speed cameras, stereoscopes, and GIS software.

GIS Day Lightning Talk / Perry-Castaneda Library, The University of Texas at Austin

Talk title: "Visualizing Hurricane Impacts." Symposium event, noon to 5 p.m.

From Coastline to Inline: A Visual Data Story / TACC Vislab, The University of Texas at Austin

A visual data story presented in Austin, TX.

Planet Texas 2050 Symposium / William C. Powers Student Activity Center, Austin, TX

Presenter for "Visualizing Hurricane Impacts: Components of Constructing 3D Landscapes."

• Lightning Talk Cluster: Flooding and Other Hazards, Legislative Assembly Room, Feb. 27, 2024, 3:00 - 3:55 PM.
• Talk Cluster on Data Visualization and Storytelling, Viz Lab in Peter O'Donnell, Jr. Building, Feb. 29, 2024, 3:00 - 4:00 PM.
• Exhibit of three visualization methods depicting Hurricane Harvey impacts on coastal communities at the mouth of the Neches River.

AIAS CRIT Live Research Symposium / ACSA Annual Meeting, Carnegie Mellon University

Presenter, "Yippee-Cai-Yay: An Energy Case Study."

YOMO: Intermedia / UC Irvine and Brown University

Scene design for an experimental dance, music, media, and visual art performance using processed video projections derived from ocean and coastal locations.

Mad & a Goat / Cohen New Works Festival, The University of Texas at Austin

Scene design for Diana Lynn Small's two-woman play.

Master of Architecture / Rhode Island School of Design

Focus on architecture, sustainability, energy efficiency, coastal resilience, and 3D coastal modeling. Advisor: Anne Tate.

Bachelor of Arts, Set Design / The University of Texas at Austin

Theatre and Dance / Technical Theatre, Theatre Design, and Technology.

Gold Award / Citibank

Studio Collaborator Award / Rhode Island School of Design

Terry Scholar / Terry Foundation