About Char
Charlene Joy Dela Cruz (Char) is a first-generation Filipino American raised in San Jose, California and Pangasinan, Philippines. Her commitment as a designer is to create seamless and intuitive interactions between humans using current and emerging technologies. Her design practice in the tech space is heavily inspired by her artistic hobbies offline, often experimenting with traditional drawing and painting mediums.
Work Experience
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
User Experience Designer
April 2022 to Present
User Experience Design Intern
June 2020 to March 2022
ArtCenter College of Design
Adjunct Faculty
January 2022 to May 2023
User Experience Designer
January 2021 to August 2022
Resume Upon Request
Awards
JPL Team Award
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
August 2024
For the development of interactive tool and technologies of large language models (LLMs) to extract models from requirements documents.
JPL Team Award
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
July 2024
JPL Team Award
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
October 2023
2nd Place, Sponsor Challenge
University of California San Diego
October 2019
Participated in University of California San Diego's 5th Annual Hackathon with over 400 participants.
Features
August 2023
January 2021 to August 2022
Education
ArtCenter College of Design
Fall 2021