Created UX/UI game-ready art for each iteration of Amazon Games Studios’ AAA MMO New World as part of an embedded team through studio-for-hire Blind Squirrel Games.

Spearheaded projects from initial concept (through flow and mock-up) to quality assurance testing – while accounting for legibility, accessibility, and adhering to design standard guidelines. Handled multiple projects in tandem collaborating with producers, department heads, and programmers from an array of disciplines. The multi-threaded development pipeline structure leveraged a fully Agile/Jira methodology, including versioning and repository software as well as content-hiding for pre-release assets. Wrote documentation and wrote/directed instructional videos explaining our most complicated assignments for the benefit of future UX/UI team-members. Tasks centered on adding Xbox Series X|S and Playstation 5 as new platforms to this formerly Steam/PC exclusive.

Freelance company focusing on UX/UI for websites, 3D motion graphics (storyboard/model/animate,) illustration, and corporate identity. Responsible for all aspects of owning and running a design business.

Front end web developer/designer responsible for interpreting written plans or client-approved design sketches into a full website; evolved design to accommodate flow/journey – ultimately delivering UX/UI solutions throughout with consistency and clarity. Handled wide range of clients/industries simultaneously.

Lilly Looking Through is an animated 2D adventure game. Responsibilities included UX/UI, programming, level assembly and cinematography, all particle effects, and prop animation. Successfully funded/produced/shipped through Kickstarter. Physical limited edition produced for Germany. Lilly was accepted as part of the Valve Greenlight program; available on Steam, Mac App Store, GOG.com and Humble Bundle.

Developed self-running edutainment engine with a pass-code based progress system, and programmed games to help with learning and retaining new rules such as a memory card game, multiple choice quizzes and a feature that stripped a correct sentence of punctuation on the back-end, offered it to the student as a puzzle, and then compared the two versions of the sentence for correction.