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Austin, Texas, United States

I built and managed a team of designers within Disney Advertising, tackling design challenges across internal dev ops tools and user facing ad products.I led the design initiative for Disney Realtime Ad Exchange (DRAX), advocated for and created a dedicated team for Hulu ad product designs and workflows, as well as provided design leadership for a newly.

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Lenovo: Partnered with Lenovo's Augmented Reality Team to lead workshops and design sprints, and share AR-specific methods, tools, and strategies to apply to the team's research, ideation, stakeholder validation, and post sprint plan of action. Deviom: Co-designed course content to teach the design process to developers for their Dev Training Program.

Emeryville, California, United States

Designed in-house tools that enable artists to create our films. Completed a total of 12 projects ranging from entire tool redesigns for Story Artists to nuanced feature interactions for our Shaders. Partnered directly with artists and engineers to iterate quickly and collaboratively in user research, co-designing, and user testing.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Headed the design of our Augmented Reality consumer software platform, ReticleOS, built for ODG's R-8 AR Smartglasses. The platform was a first of its kind in the AR industry, establishing conventions for AR head.
• Designed software platform for head tracking, user-orbiting interfaces from conceptualization through to development.
• Designed a suite of 8 applications for the glasses, corresponding ReticleOS Style Guide, and set of Best Practices guidelines for 3rd party developers.
• Collaborated on AR demos for clients and ODG promotional work.

San Francisco Bay Area

Launched Data Science Experience, a platform as a service collaborative tool for data scientists. Contributed research, UX, and visual design from early ideation through to product launch in a team of 12 designers and global IBM development and content teams.

Austin, Texas Area

Collaborate with designers, researchers, and developers as part of a new program within IBM by designing platforms and tools to make complex tasks intuitive and easy-to-use. Develop prototypes and designs to effectively communicate interaction with insights from market analysis, metrics, and usability findings.

Mountain View, CA

Collaborating on projects within the Visual Displays Lab in ideation, research, user-testing, sketching, and prototyping. Primarily conceptualizing an individual intern design project in research and development of a working prototype of my design.

Pittsburgh, PA

Develop design and hardware integration for digital medical products as the lead designer for a current patent pending product. Primarily work in hand drawing, Solidworks, and 3D print prototyping.

Pittsburgh, PA

Host weekly campus tours and provide feedback in design portfolio reviews for perspective design students at Carnegie Mellon University.

994 Pine St. San Francisco, CA

Fabricated design ideateion through prototypes iterative hand drawing, and rendering, and assisted in soldering, building components, and graphic work at a current fashion technology startup. http://switchembassy.com/

Pittsburgh, PA

Worked with Rijuven Co-Founder Evens Augustin on a patent-pending project as the Industrial designer for aesthetic design and electrical component integration.

Carnegie Mellon University Campus

Develop database for http://xsead.cmu.edu/ through researching, collecting, and curating content for the site.

Oakland CA

Created both small and to-scale prototypes and drawings of furniture designs. Also assisted in iterative process in developing concept drawings and models for current projects in their different stages.

Santa Rosa, CA

Painted public works such as park benches and murals for businesses and clients, both group and individual projects.

Bachelor Of Fine Arts (Bfa), Industrial Design, Minor In Engineering Studies

First student in the School of Design to ever complete the Engineering Studies minor at CMU.

Industrial And Product Design

Studied at VUW as an exchange student for one semester. I took courses in 3 disciplines including second and final year Industrial design.

Education record

Sculpture, Pattern Making, Directing Class, Mechanical Keyboard Building

Education record

Enrolled in courses at SRJC while attending Santa Rosa High School. Courses included Astronomy, US History, Dance, and Circuit Training.