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Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Spearhead cross-functional teams across design, development, and marketing to deliver dynamic, client-centered digital solutions; foster a collaborative environment that encourages innovation and creative.
• Strategize and drive successful sales and new business initiatives, leading high-impact pitch presentations that demonstrate advanced design capabilities and technological expertise.
• Build and execute immersive digital marketing campaigns across platforms including social media, web, mobile, connected devices, and AR/VR installations, ensuring each aligns with client brand objectives.
• Implement and maintain rigorous design systems, translating brand vision into scalable, cohesive assets that enhance user engagement and support business growth.
• Facilitate interactive design workshops with key stakeholders to gather qualitative data, identify project objectives, and establish a foundation for effective, targeted design strategies.
• Ensure all deliverables meet WCAG AA accessibility standards, promoting inclusive design across digital products to meet diverse user needs.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Spearheaded creative strategies across multiple channels, developing brand stories and cohesive campaigns that resonated with diverse audiences across digital and experiential platforms.
• Collaborated closely with marketing, social, and digital teams to create campaigns that reinforced brand objectives and connected with audiences through meaningful, visually compelling storytelling.
• Maintained design integrity and elevated brand standards through meticulous attention to detail, while adapting creative assets to fit various digital formats and social media platforms.
• Guided junior designers, providing mentorship and promoting an environment of learning and growth, helping them to enhance their skills and contribute more effectively to creative output.
• Presented design concepts and campaigns to executive stakeholders, articulating the strategic rationale and value of creative choices, and aligning with business objectives.
• Co-formed and pioneered The Hatchery, an internal experimental design and technology group whose output resulted in immediate growth to our emerging technology business

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Directed the creative process for a suite of award-winning mobile gaming IPs, focusing on user engagement and brand consistency across various touchpoints.
• Developed visual branding and design systems that provided cohesive experiences within each game, maintaining brand continuity and enhancing the player’s journey.
• Established the visual aesthetic for multiple game projects, providing initial concepts, storyboards, and design mockups.
• Led a team of designers and animators, coordinating efforts to produce high-quality game assets, from character designs and environments to UI and animations, aligned with both creative vision and gameplay objectives.
• Collaborated with development teams to ensure creative assets were optimized for performance without compromising design quality.
• Facilitated design critiques and iterative feedback sessions to elevate work quality, foster collaboration, and strengthen the creative team’s capabilities.

Atlanta, GA, US

Sitting along side a team of diverse and talented marketers dedicated to diversity and inclusion among the Atlanta advertising and marketing communities. Assisting in brand and design strategy for events and social media for the AMA Atlanta social accounts.

Created sprite art for "Hot Mess." Communicated with designers and developers to define a tone and feeling that the art will set when playing the game. Created all 2D assets including menus, UI, environments, characters and animations and using Tiled software to create levels and mock ups. Complied up sprite sheets to be used by developers to implement.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Worked on multiple client projects as a game designer and 2D artist. Created 2D UI elements as well as documented UX workflows. Created diagrams for individual game mechanics and well as wireframes and diagrams to be used to propose desired game mechanics to the client.

Working as a game designer and artist for "Robots Love Ice Cream," an upcomming iOS game. Designing enemy waves game/menu flow systems and diagrams, as well as 2D concepts and in-game models and textures. Responsible for creating texture atlases for the UI, menus and certain in-game assets to reference. Done in Unity3D. For more information visit.

Currently working on personal game projects and working as a freelance game artist.

Created 2D content and animations for "Songster" using Adobe Flash, Photoshop and Illustrator. Content included all areas from fully developed characters, environments and clothing, to initial mock-ups, wireframes and UI design.

New York, NY, US

Created 3D content, textures and lighting for NBC's "Family Movie Night" film named "Gamers." Responsible for tasking team members with work and leading art production for the faux game of the film called MiChoyce. Created 3D spaces and models with appropriate scale dimensions. Movie airs December 2, 2011.

San Diego, CA, US

Designed multiple augmented reality games for Qualcomm's Augmented Reality research department. Lead art and game design in order to create rapid proof of concepts and polished augmented reality game demos for Android mobile devices.

Worked as lead artist on a team based internship for Kaneva. Created 3D content for an internship project named Dash Breaker Arena. Learned Kaneva's content creation pipeline, created low-poly models, and textured all 3D assets. Soon after release, Dash Breaker Arena was the #3 most popular 3D App with the highest growth rate.

Atlanta, GA, US

Play tested Exonaut for Cartoon Network's before and during release. Was responsible for giving constructive feedback about all forms of gameplay including game balance and visual feedback.

Savannah, GA, US

Participated in a cooperative research project between SCAD and GA Tech. Began working with Unity 3D and the Nvidia Tegra in order to create augmented reality games for mobile devices.

El Segundo, California, US

Created 2D textures and 2D tracking map for Mattel's Rockem Sockem Augmented Reality game for the HTC Incredible.

Savannah, GA, US

Lead weekly studio help sessions in order to train students in Autodesk Maya. Focused on 3D asset creation, UV mapping and texturing.

Alpharetta, GA, US

Created 3D content for Hi-Rez's MMO, Global Agenda. Learned the Environment Department's pipeline for content creation, created 3D assets and received approval from the department head for in-game use.