Angel Rivera Email & Phone Number

Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Canada Area

Freelance design, direction, and video production

Toronto, Canada Area

• Created highly immersive, transmedia stories and games. Primarily an art direction and research-heavy graphic design position that also included a wide breadth of additional roles and responsibilities.
• Lived and breathed print media. Developed techniques to create authentically aged pieces at a mass production scale.
• Co and lead game design on transmedia games, including paper, prop, and digital components. Lead playtesting sessions.
• Developed company branding guidelines as well as branding for products and numerous fictional in-story businesses.
• Managed the in-house creative team and handled freelance illustrators and designers. Lead hiring process for creative positions.
• Video production for product trailers and in-story footage.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Joined the team as a full stack developer with bonus design skills, my role at Snakes & Lattes quickly skewed towards the visual end of the spectrum.
• Designed and developed an informational website, eccomerce store, inventory management system, employee scheduling software, event ticketing system, cash tool, and game library software.
• Designed print media including posters, banners, table talkers, a game rating system, and informational signage.
• Directed, shot, edited, and audio engineered weekly YouTube videos.
• Ran the tech and production end of an annual board game livestream marathon to benefit cancer research.

Initially hired remotely as an in-house designer and developer for a college campus mapping application, I transitioned into lead designer and developer as the company pivoted to a web development firm.

Ba, Communication Design

Aas, Graphic Design