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US

Vancouver, British Columbia, CA

• Produced 11 entertainment, learning, and training simulation products for WebGL and Oculus Go/Quest VR platforms.
• Scored $1.25MM (CAD) in grant funding by producing an innovative VR language education product for Canada’s Dept. of Nat'l Defense.
• Established quality assurance testing and engineering capabilities, release management practices, and a framework for test automation.
• Created a SaaS based live operations cost model by conducting cost-benefit analyses, and considering app design variants, expected user behaviors, and the viability of monetization strategies.
• Hosted 21 presentations and workshops on topics including go-to-market planning, pondering time, and intellectual property.
• Established a technology transfer program by creating a patent development process and perfecting the studio’s first application.

Vancouver, British Columbia, CA

• Improved Agile project management by transitioning projects to Z-Stream, and negotiating a sweet business deal with the CEO.
• Strengthened game design practices through mentoring, making play test process improvements, and focusing on principles.
• Ensured privacy and legal compliance for all applications by designing backbone workflows to satisfy legal requirements, protect users’ data, and minimize business risk.
• Provided direction to the art and audio teams by hosting constructive critiques, structuring creative processes, and teaching pre-/production best practices.
• Directed the development of an AI-driven conversation engine in Unity by working with the CTO to create a system roadmap, defining functional requirements, and mentoring software architects.

Menlo Park, CA, US

• Developed an innovative mindfulness application (Senso Oasis) by designing the experience with the product’s founder, and engineering a working prototype in Unity (C#) for Oculus Go.

• Led the conceptual design process for a film and media collaboration platform by developing user personas, information architectures, functional requirements, and an interactive prototype in Adobe XD.

• Developed go-to-market plan details for Facebook’s Portal product customer service by collaborating with Isobar designers, conducting market research, and defining best-in-class system requirements.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Designed feature and workflow improvements for AutoCAD Plant 3D and P&ID by conducting UX research, prototyping, and collaborating directly with engineers.
• Demonstrated leadership by emceeing UX design workshops, hosting annual conference sessions, and sharing direction with developers.
• Created a UX research community by inviting users to test new features using web- and Flash-based prototypes, and encouraging participation in Autodesk Labs beta tests.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Invented a unique interaction design model and workflow for visualizing molecular scale behaviors (U.S. Patent 9,317,951).
• Created interaction design models for a web-based 3D life science platform called Cyborg by drawing user journey storyboards with detailed process captions, and developing working prototypes to bring the stories to life.
• Conducted user experience research through in-situ interviews with scientists and potential end-users, working feedback into prototype development.

Redwood City, US

• Designed the End of Nations game (PC/RTS/unreleased) web presence by creating and iterating on interaction designs, workflows, and information architectures, in direct collaboration with artists.
• Supported the End of Nations eCommerce experience design with the product's point-of-view, and collaboration on wireframes and workflows.

Irvine, California, US

• Designed the Dark Souls product marketing and community website by aligning the concept of making the hardest website to enter and play, with the notoriously difficult console game.
• Launched the most successful Facebook marketing campaigns to-date for the Dark Souls franchise by tying winning on the marketing site to a "treasure hunt" for clues woven into online media partners' articles.

San Francisco, California, US

• Designed the look, feel, and function of zynga.org by collaborating with the lead producer, and using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.
• Implemented the visual designs of zynga.com and zynga.org using Adobe, Flash, and PHP.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Built a novel 3D game platform on the web using Adobe Director/Shockwave for Tech Deck Live by recruiting a team of engineers and system administrators that collaborated on architectural design.
• Negotiated business deals with top-tier co-location facilities and ISPs to host platform services by meeting with business developers and touring on-site.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Produced the Swypeout: Online Battle Racing (PC MMO) game by managing an associate producer, managing cloud development and hosting with Amazon Web Services, and providing on-site support to designers and developers at.

• Developed WunderPhoto website features using ANSI C, compiling CGIs for a LAMP stack, and collaborating with web developers and designers.
• Managed the online WunderPhoto community by providing technical support and working with the community to develop UGC tools screening, approvals, and editing.

Redwood City, CA, US

• Improved EA Games brand PC and console games for designers and developers by creating a UI/HUD design toolkit (SDK) in ActionScript 3 for a proprietary Flash engine.
• Delivered front-end design services to studio game teams by creating a providing centralized "wrapper" scrum team that produced UI, movies, cutscenes, and other assets, for the Medal of Honor, James Bond, and Lord of.

Redwood City, CA, US

• Managed engineers for The Sims 2 by way of project scheduling, process improvement, negotiation of feature requests, scoping design, and the refinement of best practices.
• Collaborated with engineers to devise solutions to complex problems related to user-generated content (UGC) by simplifying tool designs, scoping design, and aligning with web development capabilities.

Redwood City, CA, US

• Designed and operated the architecture for a cloud hosted community and UGC network called the Sims Exchange for 10+MM players of The Sims and SimCity games by managing an interdisciplinary scrum team of web.
• Built the network and systems infrastructure from the ground up by physically installing, configuring, testing, and maintaining co-location centers at an EA/Internet PoP in the SF bay area.
• Designed and produced web-based games and "box product" games integrations for the Exchange platform by allowing players to share assets, game data, and stories thereon.

Washington, DC, US

• Built a network operations center (NOC) at the Western Regional Research Center by installing SGI mini-computer servers, Cisco routers, Internet access, services like DNS and e-mail, and other research program tools.
• Provisioned Internet and enterprise network connectivity for 26 scientific research locations in the western region by coordinating efforts with and securing funding from Department IT management and the Deputy Agency.
• Served as Information Security Officer for the western region, by enacting Department and Agency policies, and liaising with USDA network operations center engineers in Ft. Collins, Colorado.

Washington, DC, US

• Created the first public web presence for USDA by making and hosting a website the Carl Hayden Bee Research Center, complete with a live bee cam.
• Designed and developed a web-based honeybee population model by porting code in C for PC to JavaScript, and publishing the app to the research center website.
• Designed and developed a marketing application for beekeepers that allows them to develop and test sales strategies by using FoxPro (PC) in collaboration with a subject matter expert, and releasing the software online.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Psychology

Certificate, Molecular Biology

A.S., Music Engineering, Production & Theory