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Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Led design for D&D Beyond's player experience on the Dungeons & Dragons digital character sheet. Translated new releases of the tabletop game into features, tools, and experiences that millions of players use to play in their weekly D&D game.

Wizards of the Coast acquired D&D Beyond from Fandom in May 2022.

Santa Monica, CA

• Led the consumer product team through discovery and delivery of a new visual outfit shopping experience that increased customer engagement, conversion rates, and cart size.
• Organized a working group of designers and engineers to conduct a substantial UI audit and build the company's first design system. Onboarded teams onto new tools like Figma and Storybook.
• Conducted user research: generative interviews, concept and usability testing, partnering with customer service and retail teams to reach customers. Used analysis tools like Optimizely and Amplitude to investigate.
• Introduced the team to discovery techniques like design sprints and journey mapping, facilitating collaborative working sessions and mentoring designers, product managers, and team leads to run their own.

Los Angeles, CA

Worked with consumer-focused startups and scale-ups in a wide variety of industries, helping teams launch new web and mobile products to market and improve existing ones. User research, product strategy, interaction/UI/visual design, front-end development.

Marina Del Rey, CA

• Drove the growth team's discovery and design of a new B2C ecommerce and user onboarding experience that increased new signups and doubled self-service photo sales.
• Maintained and extended the Twenty20 mobile app and web design systems.

Santa Monica, CA

• Led a major usability-focused relaunch of the iOS app that greatly improved adoption for both pet sitters and owners; designed and launched the company's first Android app.
• Worked on and integrated an extensive brand redesign into design system guidelines for web and mobile. Led the design and front-end engineering teams in a mobile-friendly, responsive refactoring of the web app that.
• DogVacay won the 2016 Webby Award for Best Web Services & Applications!

Culver City, CA

• Led design on new versions of Norton Family’s iOS and Android parental control apps, partnering with and customizing for several major wireless carriers in the US and Europe.
• Created comprehensive new design guidelines for Symantec’s flagship enterprise Encryption and Advanced Threat Protection services on the web and desktop apps.

Los Angeles, CA

Co-founded a mobile gaming startup at the StartEngine incubator. Contributed UI design, game art and animation, and front-end development for the HTML5 mobile game Skyscraper City. Managed a team of artists and animators across several titles through development and launch.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Oversaw in-house and remote art and design teams at the L.A. Playdom studio to launch Kogamu, a multiplayer Flash action RPG on Facebook.

Beverly Hills, CA

Hired and managed an art department of 12 and a production pipeline that launched six Facebook games, including Island Paradise, a top-10 charting title that reached over 10 million players.

Glendale, California, United States

Produced illustration, Adobe Flash art and animation, and other merchandise for Neopets.com, an online virtual pet community and games website with over 25 million users.