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Harrisburg, Us

• Launched a startup company with $75,000 in investments through Roblox's Accelerator Program.• Creating Bloxtopia, a massive online social universe powered by a user-driven, global economy.• Overseeing engineering, design, and marketing teams across the US with Trello, Jira, ClickUp, GitHub.• Managing production timelines, presentations, and specifications for stakeholders, investors, and QA teams.• Directing front-end prototyping (Figma, Adobe Ps/Ai), user testing (interviews/surveys), implementation (Lua).• Supervising back-end development (cloud databases and cybersecurity) for optimal server performance.

San Diego, California, Us

• Leading a team of 10 engineers to develop large-scale online social experiences with AI / LLM integrations.• Creating virtual experiences between users and AI models (GPT, Llama, Gemini, Claude) to facilitate user research, generate insights about human-computer interaction, and evaluate AI reasoning capabilities.• Spearheading design, test, and implementation of UI on Figma with Professors Hao Zhang and Haojian Jin.

La Jolla, Ca, Us

• Teaching university courses with 400+ students about building innovative design projects and portfolios.• Managing large instructional teams with 12 TAs/logistics staff to mentor students and manage assignments.• Overhauling the curriculum with new lectures, workshops, and assignments to prepare students for industry.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Diego, Us

La Jolla, Ca, Us

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Created a system to automatically migrate and manage contracts and orders, helping the company manage over $7.66 billion in revenue.

San Mateo, California, Us

• Transformed Indie Studios through Roblox's 12-week Startup Accelerator Program; selected from over 1000+ candidates.• Created Bloxtopia, a massive online social universe, through weekly production sprints and rapid prototyping/iteration.

San Mateo, California, Us

• Hosted programming and UI/UX design panels w/ hundreds of attending developers; represented Roblox.• Shared UI design techniques and software development methodology through workshops and discussions.• Led events discussing user experience, game design, player psychology, and audience targeting.

• Transformed the product design for Ragdoll Simulator 2, an online game with over 20 million plays.• Achieved 604% increase in user traffic after redesigning pre-existing UI menus, interactions, and visual styles.• Proactively overhauled UI structures with responsive designs in platform-adaptive user interfaces.• Spearheaded end-to-end implementation of UI, from Figma prototypes to front-end programming in Lua.

• Created WeatherHub, a weather system that predicts risk metrics to help farmers mitigate severe crop damage.• Top 3 Finalist in Share the Forecast, a hackathon developing a weather dashboard for underdeveloped regions.• Led user research and improved product experience via usability testing before handoff to development.• Designed intuitive user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity prototypes, and interactive UIs in Figma.

San Mateo, California, Us

• Designed innovative UIs for software/game development studios, e.g. Lionly Studios, Skygate Entertainment.• Constructed interfaces/menus with Figma, Adobe Illustrator, and Lua: matchmaking screens, shops, HUDs.• Created and programmed UIs for software on various platforms: PC, Mac, iPhone, Android, Xbox.

Bachelor Of Science, Interaction Design

Minor, Computer Science

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