J.D. Compton Email & Phone Number

United States

The love for storytelling was stoked as new opportunities to tell them presented themselves, and am humbled to be a part of it all! Audio and Video production at it's core, there was a keen focus on delivering richer experiences for customers to showcase what our team can do.- Worked to create a 3D/VFX pipeline between our platform integration teams and design - Developed and directed a UX film for one of our products, telling the story for our client - Conducted voice over work - Whiteboarding and Storyboarding via 3D software - Worked with leadership to solve rendering pipelines and delivery methods - Documented the process with industry standard practices - Worked with our awesome new designers to develop new UX film narratives - Collaborated and created new techniques for story telling standardization and documentation- Assisted in training our awesome new hires in UX/UI/3D paradigms- Assisted in efforts to branch out a deeper UX process - Provided systems support within our design systems - Developed paradigms for distributing work across frontend / ui devs (UX) - Created new processes around color in our designs, pushing towards our theming to match with the a11y project and other accessibility programs - Began efforts for tokenization within our design system- Worked with HR creating and organizing new photographic workflows for our badging process - Updated our studio layout to match the workflow- Currently working with leadership to develop design showcase methods, highlighting our designers work from Beast Code (Behance / Dribbble / Social)- Developed ideation to combine marketing efforts with hiring plans, delivering stories for the #bewhatsnext campaign

United States

Was afforded the liberty to think deeper about how we'd deliver designs at Beast Code, and with design team made the transition to Figma. It has been an incredible journey, learning more about atomizing and delivering across multiple systems.- Created and Established new design aesthetics within our company workflow - Met and collaborated with leadership on new design positions, initiatives, and design team direction - Supported and assisted designer migration for all projects to Figma - Lead design for two of our incredible products, contributed to multiple team discussions with clients and partners - Created new system based componentry and assisted in component variations - Championed new component libraries, fostering growth for all design team members - Developed connected workflows between products and systems thinking - Encouraged design leadership mentality and focus during design meetings - Assisted our current designers with onboarding new designers - rewrote and modified our design development workflow - Conducted design interviews - Updated flows for design career paths and advancement - Facilitated conversations for featuring Beast Code design work publicly - Created new project templates for featuring future work - Created new design handoff paradigms and experimentation for low-code front-end development practices via exporting FIGMA variants to code - Developed processes for component code clean up - Developed responsive design aesthetics in FIGMA - Wrote documentation on FIGMA design to development workflows- Created new animation workflows for 3D set development - Created materials for product video features- Developed and storyboarded previs for three of our projects

Was given the incredible opportunity to assist in the growth, development, and merging of creative forces at Beast Code. Working together with our increasingly amazing design team, we created a collaborative environment across the new communications and video teams, all while focusing our efforts on the delivery of our brand new website. This effort included 3D animation design for our products, video direction and guidance and the establishment of new workflows for the future evolution of media production. Continued to work with and motivate designers on our team to new areas of leadership and responsibility through the creation of weekly design reviews, and encouraging centralized communication for all designers back to our development teams.- Assisted in and conducted marketing conversations with the our extraordinary leadership- Conducted comparative analysis for the new Beast Code Website- Developed visual ideas and assisted in road mapping the areas of need for the new site- Created whiteboards/storyboards with the communications team - Developed design layouts for the new site based on the pages written from the communications team- Established and developed our new site CMS - Implemented new component development workflows - Wrote the frontend/backend methodologies using HTML, JS, SASS, YAML, and TWIG - Launched our site staging and production environments, updating our SEO and Analytics capabilities - Trained our communications team on site management - Developed components based on feedback from multiple teams - Created documentation for site maintenance - Created new video workflows for capturing interviews and training - Created Experience Center film sets and lighting scenarios - Created and submitted budgets for Media Production - Worked with and guided new video team members on capturing techniques and previs development - Captured interviews with employees

Had the pleasure of creating a positive and encouraging experience for new designers, fostering a collaborative environment through training and support for growth in skill development and best practices for UI/UX development for not only the design side of the house but also the PR teams. Worked side by side with newly appointed Scrum Masters and the Admin team to serve on the newly christened Beast Code creative arm, and began working with team members on new marketing materials.- Conducted Company Brand Refresh - Created focus for brand unification - Worked with company leadership on and implemented new focus - Created new responsive logo variants - Designed new company badges - Worked with PR and FSO to create new badge creation workflows - Created and submitted media support budgets - Implemented new photography workflows

Blessed to have served as Beast Code's primary designer implementing Design Methodologies through UI/UX, Scrum & Agile alignment to the dev cycle, brand refreshing, and provided business support when necessary including:- Implemented the Beast Code Experience System - Developed component methodology - Structured the internal design system for interfacing with dev teams - Conducted design system reviews, implemented updates and changes - Created sharing system - Worked with team leads to create and organize JIRA design to development workflows- Worked with DevOps and Security teams to implement workflows for design document management- Created official documentation via Word, Power Point, and InDesign- Writing Design position requirements - Created flows for design career paths and advancement - Conducted design interviews - Facilitated design reviews - Created design training and on-boarding workflows- Designed and created product videos - Worked with clients / internal team to concept and storyboard video flow - Designed and animated components to simplify the project narrative - Conducted and instructed voice over sessions - Created and edited video flow, mixed in audio, and conducted reviews