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Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Germany

Provide music composition, sound and interaction design, and narrative development for VR games

Seattle, Washington

Seattle, Washington, United States

Oversaw WAR's interactive team, managing and directly contributing to client projects and internal initiatives, from research and concept ideation to prototyping and production. Guided the technical design and development of innovative multi-modal experiences across web, mobile, and extended reality (XR), including location-based, augmented, and virtual reality.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Lead technical adviser and project manager for creative agency

Seattle, Washington, United States

Leading product development, interaction design, and growth

Seattle, Washington, United States

Story, Game, and Soundscape Design as on a small team developing the VR experience 'Kindred' for the 2020-2021 Oculus Launchpad cohort

• Strategic client-facing partner and technical PoC for 13 SMB, commercial, and enterprise product marketing teams• Guided client leadership through 10 product launches across product marketing, IT, Sales, and Exec. stakeholders• Performed hundreds of hours of remote discovery, solution design, and training ranging from 1 on 1’s to over 100 people

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Launched an original podcast exploring challenges and opportunities in the space of immersive tech (XR, VR, AR)• Conducted background research and group interviews for 15 in-person and 3 remote long-form conversations• Created marketing content, copy, art, and music for 17 episode

Greater Seattle Area

• Technical Co-founder and researcher/developer advocate• Designed and developed early prototypes for an online collaboration platform for XR researchers and creators• Conducted market and user research, creative design sprints, in-person studies, and incorporated community feedback

Seattle, Washington

• Led remote internal, contract, and client teams in parallel on discovery, design, development for mobile apps and websites• Guided 5 client projects and internal products through launch and ongoing production feature development

Seattle, Washington

• Assisted the instructional team in teaching JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, and CSS to students from a wide range of backgrounds. • ebugged student code and provided one-on-one support as needed.

Seattle

Seattle, Washington

• Conducted thorough testing and root-cause analysis of mechanical and electrical hardware • Regularly engaged w/ engineering team in design, process optimization, and test reviews• Conducted data analysis from collected data sources, usage metrics, and testing results• Built extensive training documentation, standard operating procedures, and analysis reports

Hawaii

• Established new collaboration and tasking projects, established points of contact, and lead technology briefings• Oversaw daily operations and progress for a joint-service team of analysts and collection operators• Conducted weekly meetings to keep track of individual development and project advancement• Performed regular briefings and presentations for senior leadership, and customer organizations, on mission and project updates• Advised and mentored individual team members on career advancement • Improved integration and collaboration between multiple team's efforts to ensure client base fulfillment

Overseas Field Site

• Represented and briefed team's progress and future developments during technology initiatives with customer/client teams and senior officials• Drove new integration efforts by establishing positive collaboration with foreign partners through daily sync meetings and morale events• Personally trained and mentored five junior service members• Provided guidance for future infrastructure and system requirements• Conducted troubleshooting and regular communications with support engineers to resolve system outages

• Conducted detailed analysis of variety of signals collection and data types• Produced and contributed to several hundred technical documents and data analysis reports• Built several projects from concept into full production operations• Lead and mentored teams of analysts on multiple projects• Served as primary customer/client support representative• Gave high-level technical presentations and briefs to a variety of officials and organizations• Operated numerous Linux and Windows based collection/analysis platforms, created metrics to track new insights from various data sources• Managed tasking and guidance for a joint service and civilian team of analysts. Effectively trained and mentored over 20 personnel during tour

Los Angeles, California, United States

Game And Interactive Media Design

Summary of course experience: - Basic Game Design - History of Computer Game Design - Computer Ethics and Society - Studio Fundamentals I.

Software Development

Intelligence And Signals Analysis

Activities and Societies: United States Marine Corps Attended courses in a variety of domains including digital network fundamentals.

Iranian/Persian Languages, Literatures, And Linguistics

Studied Persian Farsi, Iranian History, and Middle Eastern culture