As a Sr. Product Manager, I work directly with OEM customers to craft their Infotainment and Navigation products. I am an advocate for the customer, product, and end user experience within Garmin, making sure that what we deliver in the vehicle is the absolute best that it can be. Current Responsibilities:- Lead the Navigation product for the 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E BEV, as well as the Ford F150 Lightning, among other SYNC4 vehicles with Garmin navigation- Meet daily with customer engineering & management teams globally- Travel and work face to face with customers in Detroit, Tokyo, Paris, Stuttgart, Koln, and elsewhere.- Responsible for helping lead the vision for future Garmin hardware and software products. - Attend CES and other industry events like TU-Detroit, including participating on a panel about Driver Centric Integrated Solutions in 2018 with Ford and AccuWeather.- Review Analytic data to identify gaps in usage and performance of our key products.- Craft product scope documentation as well as change request scope definitions, including effort estimates.- Collaborate daily with User Experience, Visual Design & Graphics, SW Engineering, Systems Engineering, Industrial Design, Software Quality, and others within Garmin.

As the CEO of Tresiris, LLC I create simple and straightforward desktop, console, and mobile games. By focusing on key gameplay elements, I produce fun and addicting arcade style games that are perfect for all ages. I am a registered Android, Microsoft, & Xbox Independent Developer. My main tools include Unity, 3ds Max, Adobe Illustrator, Visual Studio, and C#. Key launched titles for the Arcade1Up Infinity Game Table include:- Memoriae: The Dragon Egg Heist- Memoriae: Critter Quest- Accidental AnnihilationKey launched titles for Steam, Microsoft Windows 10 and Xbox include:- Block Dropper, with almost 30K lifetime acquisitions for Microsoft/Xbox- Extr(orb), with almost 5K lifetime acquisitions for Microsoft/Xbox

As a professor in the Game Art & Design program, I taught degree seeking students the technical knowledge needed to build games & game art within a wide range of applications and formats.Courses taught:- Digital Design and Motion (Flash & ActionScript 3.0)- Introduction to Visual Effects (After Effects)- Interactive Storytelling (Flash)- Programming for Artists (Unity3d & JavaScript)- 3d Modeling / 3d Animation (3ds Max & Maya)- Interior Spaces & Worlds (3ds Max)