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Concept and Attraction Design leader focused on creating immersive experiences in Disney Parks worldwide.

Interactive product and game design leader focused on creating exciting and innovative interactive experiences. Design Lead for innovative apps and highly popular MMO's and Virtual Worlds. Led research and development on wide variety of innovative projects and platforms to enable next generation interactive experiences in VR, AR, and IoT applications.JEDI CHALLENGES- Lead designer for unique Augmented Reality Headset and Light Saber where Guests can have Light Saber duels with Star Wars characters. Won Webby awards for Best use of Augmented Reality and Technical Achievement.EMERGING TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH and DEVELOPMENT - Designed prototypes for emerging tech including smart speakers and IoT.MOBILE GAMES DESIGN LEAD- Created new concept prototypes for highly popular Disney Mobile games DISNEY MIX- Lead Designer for Disney Mix - Disney's innovative, family friendly F2P messaging app featuring a pioneering game play in chat thread design. Mix included a 3D avatar users could customize and interactive stickers and games where the avatars came to life turning the chat into a mini virtual world. Designed and developed 15 innovative games that live inside a chat thread. App achieved a 4+ rating.CLUB PENGUIN- Lead Designer for inaugural Club Penguin mobile app. Companion app for the popular Club Penguin web site that let players update their Penguin, decorate their Igloo and play new mini games on the go. The app paved the way for moving Club Penguin from a web to mobile platform and achieved a 4+ rating. * Designed new mini games - including the highly popular Card Jitsu game - and innovative multiplayer systems for the largest family friendly virtual world. TOONTOWN ONLINE Designed new game play systems and mini games for the pioneering family friendly MMO. Designed concept and built prototype for mobile version where players could play on the go.PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN ONLINEDesigned major expansions to game systems and gameplay mechanics.

WORLD OF CARS ONLINELead Designer and Creative Lead for the World of Cars MMO based on the Disney/Pixar movie Cars. The project exceeded its goals of creating a community of passionate and deeply engaged Cars fans helping drive consumer products and promoting excitement for the opening of Cars Land in California Adventure. Project pushed the boundaries of available technology rendering a 3D MMO in Adobe Flash.* Led all creative development and designs.* Worked closely with the Pixar team to ensure designs met their rigorous creative standards.* Created designs to expand the imaginative world Pixar created. * Designed 10 in world mini games including innovative massively single player games.* Developed content strategy for product in development and for all live updates. * Developed patented inventions for gameplay and content development.* Designed all game systems.* Designed Car customizer used for the Cars Land website.

Creative and technical design lead for interactive experiences and online applications for Disney.com. Developed new product concepts, functional requirements and designs for products, games, platforms, and technical systems.DISNEY EXTREME DIGITAL PLATFORM (DXD)- Co Creative Director and Lead Designer for DXD - an innovative content platform that served as a new personalized, socially connected online entertainment network for Disney.com. The groundbreaking network featured channels that combined videos, games, and online content for Disney franchises and Characters. Users could create their own customized channels combining their favorite games and videos and earn D Points as they watched and played games with their friends. DXD included community based features such as safe chat and leaderboards.* Designed 12 exclusive DXD games. * Designed integrations with the popular Disney Virtual Magic Kingdom MMO * Nominated for a 2007 Technical Emmy Award. DISNEY CHANNEL GAMES ARENA- Design lead for Disney Channel Games Arena Challenge, Disney.com's first online multiplayer game for Disney Channel. * Designed Arena's meta game and all game systems that included on air leaderboard events.* Led design for 5 games in the Arena Challenge.

Responsible for the design and development of innovative and creative web based technologies and applications that powered Disney.com and all online games. * Led research and development of new applications of technology. * Worked with producers to develop creative applications of technology to produce online games and interactive experiences for the leading entertainment and kids website, Disney.com. * Led team responsible for developing applications and game systems for Disney's pioneering online club, Disney Blast.* Led the development of a content management system for Disney.com's family of sites enabling rapid publishing of content featuring an innovative, dynamic data driven Flash based game framework.

Master Of Arts - Ma

Bachelor Of Science - Bs