Trish's user manual

[trishtracking]

Trish (she/her) 💪

How I get my best work done:

• Usually with background music 🎧 🎼 🎹 🥁 🎷 🎺 🎸 or silence/calm

• I am a visual learner - I enjoy watching videos and doodling about when learning something new

• I work best when I've got lots of time to try things out, google answers 🦦, do things several times and spend time visualising and verbalising how things fit together, refer back to previous workshops and projects

• I learn most when we get it wrong a few times, and working out what to change to break it and then changing it back

• I love asking lots of clarifying questions to make sure my understanding is correct

The role I usually take in a team:

• very much depends on the dynamic of the team
• I don't naturally take charge but I'll try to if it feels like we're not getting anywhere
• scrum facilitation is kinda fun I'd love to get really good at it
• I like the readme, hackmd, SGC admin and I'm happy to do it

My communication style:

• I appreciate straightforward communication and making jokes in stressful situations
• feel free to talk loads and explain what you're doing & thinking when we're working together because I probably can't see your face

What I value:

• this whole experience IT'S REALLY GREAT 🌈
• chill ❄️
• clear roles, deadlines, and a clear plan of what we want to do and who is doing what
• kindness
• honesty
• patience
• compliments 💁‍♀️
• feedback !!! 💚

What people misunderstand about me:

• I can be a bit blunt sometimes- I'm either overly hedged and modal in the way I say things or just brick-like in my directness and I'm working on finding a middle ground
• if I come across as closed/cold it's because I'm a bit awkward and not because I don't like you

How I like to get my feedback:

• I really appreciate honest and straightforward feedback and won't get defensive on you
• I thrive on good feedback, constructive feedback and compliments
• If I've done or said something offensive or annoying please also tell me, slack it to me if you feel more comfortable
• I always appreciate people speaking their mind even if I don't agree with them 🙋🏻‍♀️

Technical strengths & weaknesses:

• • really like CSS, animations, SVGs
• • styled components
• • design & UX
• • I quite like SQL
• • need to improve on authentication stuff
• • error handling
• • testing

Interests (programming or otherwise!):

• music! All sorts. I love making playlists, dancing to lots of different kinds of music, talking about it, going to gigs and clubs and festivals (before the plague ofc) 🎵 👯‍♀️
• I like thinking about user interface and user experience, I've spent a few years working on and building customer support teams for tech startups and I'm looking forward to seeing how that knowledge will translate to my engineering work 💁‍♀️🤖
• documentaries
• podcasts
• most things to do with the ocean/beach
• cooking 🧑‍🍳
• running around Finsbury Park 🏃‍♀️ (training to be able to run 10k/a 10k race at the moment)
• climbing at the Castle 🧗🏻‍♀️ (only bouldering rn - hmu if you'd like to go together)
• I'd love to work for a tech company doing cool new things with food sustainability/food waste/food security, ocean conservation, psychology/mental health, or music/venues/events, Automattic or Spotify 😁

[azizi-a]

Trish is always charming and always chilled out. She's great at offering small pieces of positive feedback that make you happy to a be a part of her team, and is an excellent listener who will quietly encourage you to work to the best of your ability. She is also great at finding the points emotional resonance in design ideas and recognising how UX can lead to and highlight them.

[RihardsJ]

I have been working with Trish for four consecutive weeks on projects. She's absolutely amazing person to work with because she is very patient, calm and positive person. Her ability to look at situations constructively and leave emotions aside makes her perfect team player. Numerous complicated and challenging tasks in our projects have been accomplished due to her organization skills and high work ethic. I wish you best of luck in the next project, and I am always going to be happy to work with you again!

[khadija-nur]

Trish might be one of the very few people I've never seen frustrated. She is really calm, patient and easy to work with. She is always ready to learn new tools/technologies and demonstrate their functionalities and usage to the rest of her team. Her ambition and dedication is motivating and I'm sure she will be a great asset to any team she works with.