Designed and taught a 12 week professional development course on AR/VR design. Worked with students from a variety of backgrounds to teach them the basics of 3D asset creation, XR project development in Unity, prototyping skills, and design documentation/collaboration.

•Lead design on a “teleportative” remote collaboration solution for Augmented Reality to allow remote teams to meet together as if they were in-person
•Designed core experience that promotes sense of social presence and leverages nonverbal communication •Compiled UX research and ran user studies to validate the performance of our solution and gather data to share with senior leadership•
Built prototypes to test concepts around eye contact, video quality, and spatial audio and inform hardware design

•Working as a user experience designer at an internal development studio within HTC Vive•Current projects include Sync, a VR meeting and collaboration app, and developing content for Origin, the home environment for the Vive Cosmos headset•Responsible for designing and prototyping ideas and new features. This includes C# scripting, writing shaders, and basic 3D modeling.•I work closely with our development team in Taipei, sharing prototypes and design documents to communicate ideas•I also work with our studio lead to prioritize new features and explore how VR can add value beyond traditional in-person and video meetings

• Worked on a team designing serious games, simulations, and other immersive experiences for government and commercial clients• Worked with clients to shape their understanding of how Augmented and Virtual Reality could be used to address their business challenges• Prepared design documentation and translate client requirements into art and engineering tasks• Rapidly developed and prototyped in Unity• Lead team meetings, communicate progress to clients• Delivered projects for the Oculus Go, Microsoft Hololens, Meta 2, and SpatialOS cloud platform

• Planned and executed beta testing and redesign campaign for a mobile game that uses voice recognition to encourage kids to read out loud• Maintained beta mailing list, gathered player data, oversaw playtesting with kids, and turned observations about the game into actionable design items

•Created independent video production company to produce ads, Kickstarter videos, and other video projects.•Wrote contracts, set up interviews, and coordinated shoots.

•Managed FORA.tv's presence on YouTube, Hulu, iTunes, and other video sites.•Streamlined DVD production workflow by writing a script to automatically create chaptered DVDs.•Negotiated licensing agreements with various film and television outlets.•Worked with marketing team to promote timely and relevant videos.

•Same tasks as Media Production Coordinator, with added duties like writing titles and descriptions, entering relevant metadata, and attaching images to CMS.

•Worked with a team of editors to import, edit, and upload conference and event videos.•Worked with videos in a variety of formats; performed color and audio correction.