John Montenegro Email & Phone Number

Redwood City, CA, US

Redwood City, CA, US

Offering UX consultation and design, including documentation as needed, for games as well as lifestyle apps. Asset creation created in house if requested. Please contact for more information and rates. Commissions are also available.

Vancouver, CA

Began as a UX/UI Designer on NBA Live, upcoming NCAA, and via hard work...became Madden (Live) Visual Lead near the end of my tenure. As Lead Vis Dev, I handled a team of 9 Visual Designers, internships and several vendors. Leading MUT Art daily logistics, art quality and roadmap.

Vancouver, CA

UX/UI Designer/Visual Designer.

Worked particularly on dev and pitch of “Stranger Things - A Telltale Story” by creating key art, image fidelity and quality bar samples as well as UI mockups of gameplay features. I also worked on the final season of “The Walking Dead” by processing assets using our in-house tool and Maya.

South Pasadena, CA, US

• Responsible for presenting a UI Style Guide to the Art Director that also adheres to a streamlined UX; particularly for VR. A capable UI Artist at WDI maintains their artwork, is able to collaborate effectively with.
• Meet first order of the day, and discuss what UI/UX was done previously and what will be tackled next.
• Check all of my screens and created assets in VR via the PSVR headset, then make adjustments in Unreal accordingly.
• Use After Effects to create pre-visualizations of the motion design of each UI Element.
• Work in Unreal Blueprint to produce functioning UMG animations, transitions and other UI effects.
• Create, send out and maintain UX flows to the entire team and upload them to the project wiki.

Glendale, California, US

• Disney Interactive has very visible and treasured IP's like The Avengers, Star Wars, and Kingdom Hearts. Thus the games are of a high standard to remain faithful to the quality bar that made these brands a success.
• Work in Diagram Designer or Fireworks to figure out an entire game feature flow interactively.
• Submit assets and their documentation in an organized manner into the current file structure using GitBash, Tortoise and Perforce.
• Gather and study test results and case studies by Disney's Usability Researchers.
• Meet daily with Design, Engineering and the Art Director to collaborate on UI needs, tools and expectations
• Visit QA and pinpoint UX/UI bugs and localization issues, then target and remedy the problem.

London, Ontario, CA

• The expectation was to be able to switch seamlessly between raster and vector UI art production. Took their flagship IP and was to lead the UX/UI dev for its mobile counterpart. Eventually phased out the archaic/reused.
• Daily morning meetings to ensure all stake holders walk away with the same vision in terms of UI/UX direction course.
• Collaborate with Design and discuss anticipations of user behaviors.
• Design user acquisition, retention and monetization UX related solutions.
• Research similar games to ensure no UI assets, up until this point, are interchangeable and are all uniquely BVG.
• Rasterize vector UI and optimize it for use in Coco's 2D and Unity.

• Geomon being a game app akin to “PokemonGo” for mobile platforms, I had to do high fidelity mockups of screens and their flow in a style that would be reachable, understandable and loved by casual gamers.
• Morning video meetings to discuss action items for the day related to concept art and UI.
• Work on revisions of the latest creature, location or UI design.
• Present multiple options/variations via design sheets of creature and environment designs.
• Research to increase visual library related to the character or creature design currently underway.
• Playtest the incremental builds to ensure my assets are in, visually what I wanted and working as intended.

The Visual Development Artist is responsible for working from wireframes and technical documents in the creation of relevant art materials and pre-production assets for multiple projects. Under guidance from the Game & Art Directors, the Visual Development Artist will contribute to implementing each game vision, through story art assets, conceptual.

Redwood City, CA, US

• EA develops, publishes, and distributes games worldwide for consoles, pc, mobile and social. The versatility to be able to change and match artistic styles of all its various game brands via UI is a big consideration.
• Design menus and screen mockups with localization issues in mind.
• Triple check all dynamic textfields are translating properly.
• Work in Scaleform to create UI animations, screen transitions and UI states.
• Import individual and motion assets from Flash into Unreal, creating and then maintaining the package.
• Match up current mockups to initial UI look/feel key sent by WB/NetherRealm and cross reference them.

Compositing & Motion Graphics

Associate'S Degree, Video Game Art And Design

Education record