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Austin, Texas, Us

Supporting an amazing team on AI/ML cloud-based (CBC2) software for the United States Department of Defense and USAF.

Westminster, Colorado, Us

Hired as an individual contributor to enhance the user experience and interface for Maxar / DigitalGlobe flagship Earth Intelligence mobile and desktop product lines in B2B, B2C and classified spaces. Promoted to launch and lead a User Experience Design department for the Product Engineering division. Provided strategic thought leadership through refined user research and design methodologies, managing a team while also being an individual contributor. Greatly enhanced customer experiences and grew product capabilities, doubling subscriptions YOY, reaching new personas and creating entirely new business verticals.• Performed a critical role establishing a new business vertical by designing a web based Maritime Analysis application, and built a prototype that produced a preemptive multi-million dollar sale.• Managed and grew a strong design team, established a paid internship program, implemented design thinking practices and upgraded systems and tools, enhancing productivity 32% YOY.• Established a custom UI design system, branded digital product style guide, and web component library, boosting development speed, design consistency and release quality 40% YOY.• Solved complex challenges with empathy, strong teamwork, creativity, adaptability, prioritization, time management, and marketing, creating innovative, mission critical, best in class products.• Implemented and facilitated usability testing producing measurable data and insight summary reports which increased revenue via customer retention and growth over 21% YOY.• Led cultural transformation, better connecting our customers, stakeholder groups, and development teams, significantly improving product insight and customer experience success.• Routinely created wireframes, UI mockups, prototypes, user flows, usability tests, presentations, etc.

Westminster, Colorado, Us

Hired at Maxar (formerly DigitalGlobe) to provide UX/UI Design, UX Research, and front end development for its flagship commercial and government web based mobile and desktop products.• Provided UI/UX design leadership, expertise, and assets focusing primarily on the GIS flagship commercial software SecureWatch, and Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery (G-EGD) software for the United States Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, and foreign allies, enhancing the overall user experience and effectiveness of these critical programs.• Routinely created wireframes, UI mockups, prototypes, user flows, usability tests, presentations, etc.• Established protocols for integrating UX design processes into the existing agile development cycles while constantly advocating, researching and providing tighter user feedback loops.• Created a branded custom component library and custom development framework for rapid prototyping design concepts. This enabled big ideas to be shared quickly with stakeholders and design details to be easily shared with development teams.• Provided front end development expertise, building new web components leveraged by our platform and assisting in architectural decisions for future versions of our software.• Recognized by peers with UX Solutions Choice Award for individual contributions creating an AI/ML crowdsourcing solution to generate better training data.

Golden, Co, Us

Redefined the consulting agency’s approach to human computer interaction (HCI), gamification, and user research with both routine individual contributions and servant leadership. Grew and managed an amazing, passionate cross-functional team of 30. Launched the creative services department that produced engaging, award-winning global strategic learning and development simulations on desktop and mobile supporting Microsoft Windows, Apple iOS, and Android devices.• Transformed struggling million dollar project into a returning multi-million dollar client.• Expanded core capabilities via collaboration, contributing to customer growth of over 300% YOY.• Collectively produced over 30 highly custom simulations acclaimed with over 30 industry awards.• Led cultural transformation to integrate better design practices, greatly enhancing product quality.• Served a wide range of industries from the United States Air Force to Deloitte, McDonalds and UPS.• Increased value by assisting developers in coding additional web interfaces and components.• Designed and developed a proprietary interface design tool like Figma 5 years in advance.• Routinely created wireframes, UI mockups, prototypes, user flows, usability tests, presentations, etc.• Designed and developed fully responsive multiplayer web based applications for desktop and mobile devices covering iOS, Mac, Windows, and Android, supporting all major browsers.Clients: Ernst & Young, Deloitte, HP Enterprise, Walgreens, Accenture, PWC, BNSF, Cisco, Citi, DaVita, Hyatt, Hertz, Intel, Lockheed Martin, McDonalds, Wendy's, U.S. Air Force, CDOT, Johnson Controls, Northwestern Mutual, Baxter, Abbott, The American College, and many more.

Golden, Co, Us

Contracted to join a team developing the National Security Decision Making simulation for the United States Air Force Air Command & Staff college. The team was struggling to understand and meet the user needs and the high profile project was in jeopardy of being canceled.By entering the struggling million dollar project with a fresh empathic perspective and doing immediate user research, it was saved by redefining persona definitions, realigning project requirements, changing the design approach, introducing highly desired gamification techniques, implementing graphically rich UI and high end 3D individual contributions that ultimately created the user experience the client was after. Within a month we produced a new prototype proof of concept that proved our new approach was exceeding both client and internal expectations. The project launched with such high praise that it resulted in a new significantly larger follow up multi-million project for the same client a few months later.The success of turning this project around led to an immediate full time job offer to lead UX design efforts and stand up a new Creative Services department for Regis Learning Solutions (later rebranded as The Regis Company).

Serving clients as a side hustle providing UI/UX design, mobile and desktop product design, user research, personas, A/B testing, storyboards, process flows, competitive analysis, graphical user interface, digital assets for the video games industry, programming, e-Commerce websites, 3D animations, product marketing, etc.• Rebranded a jewelry store, building a highly successful online presence helping the owner to retire.• Collaborated with an ad agency to create 3d animated commercials aired during the Super Bowl.• Sought out by international video game publisher Capcom to produce music for AAA title. • Design and develop responsive web sites for desktop and mobile devices with HTML, CSS, JS, and PHP.• Routinely created wireframes, UI mockups, prototypes, user flows, usability tests, presentations, etc.• Create branding and logo development, marketing collateral, 3D characters and environments, motion graphics, audio, etc.• Provide professional consultative services for marketing campaigns, user research, and user persona analysis.Clients: Pain Consultants of West Florida, ID Group, Capcom, United States Air Force, 3D Realms, Air Command & Staff College, Air War College, Apogee, Kline’s Jewelry, Regis Learning Solutions, First Fitness, Rupiper Travel, Dinosaur Entertainment, Melted Logic, General Service Computers Inc, and many more.

Us

Contracted as a side hustle to join alongside famous game composer Tommy Tallarico to create several productions featured in their live shows, Blu-Rays, DVDs, and CDs. Performed at several massive events filled with thousands of fans and celebrities, and was the first symphonic rock act to play at the grand opening of the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles, California, following “The Eagles” opening day. • Featured on Video Games Live: Volume 1 Album• Volume 1 achieved #10 on the Billboard Top 10 for Classical Music Crossovers• Volume 1 achieved 2008 Best Video Game Soundtrack from both IGN and G.A.N.G• Featured on Video Games Live: Level 2 Album• Volume 2 achieved #8 on the Billboard Top 10• Featured on Video Games Live: Level 3 Album

Westminster, Co, Us

Brought on to form and lead a team to develop DreamWorks Madagascar 2 for the PlayStation 2. This was a critical project in an effort to expand the studio’s relationship with a major publisher. We succeeded in delivering the product on time and on budget. Later transitioned to work on installments of PAIN, a highly successful AAA PlayStation Network title, and other unannounced titles. Common tasks included designing, 3D modeling, texturing, rigging, animating, UI, VFX, and tools programming. PRODUCED TITLES:• PAIN: (PS3, PSN) - Expansion Packs: Area 51, Gym, Museum, Pain Labs, PlayStation Home Game Space.• Madagascar 2 - Escape 2 Africa: (PS2, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, PC)Clients: DreamWorks, Activision, Sony

Osaka, Jp

The official headquarters in Japan reached out and offered a contract as a side hustle to produce a live instrument rendition of the classic Bionic Commando theme, primarily featuring the electric guitar. It was unveiled to the world in a live performance at the Iron Man of Gaming in 2008, featured in the video game release, and made available for purchase separately on iTunes.PRODUCED TITLES:• Bionic Commando: (PS3, Xbox 360, PC)• The Bionic Jam (iTunes Soundtrack Single)

Big Bear Lake, California, Us

Brought on the team as a 3D Generalist / Assistant Producer and was quickly put in charge of forming and leading the studios audio department as well. Together we produced many successful titles and several unannounced titles, covering all the major consoles. Most notably we created a top selling console pinball game series that is still a significant revenue generator for the company over a decade later. Common tasks included designing, modeling, texturing, rigging, animating, UI, VFX, tools programming, sound effect creation, voice talent processing, and music production.PRODUCED TITLES:• Backyard Baseball 2009: (PS2, PC, Wii)• Game Party: (Wii)• Backyard Football 2008: (PS2, PC, Wii)• Pinball Hall of Fame - The Williams Collection: (PS2, PSP, Wii, PS3, Xbox 360, 3DS)• Hard Rock Casino: (PS2, PSP)• Charlie Browns All Stars: (PS2, X-Box) - cancelled• Skateboarder: (Plug-N-Play Dedicated Console)• Pinball Hall of Fame - The Gottlieb Collection (PS2, X-Box, Game Cube)• Gottlieb’s Pinball Classics: (PSP, Wii)• Golden Tee - Home Edition: (Plug-N-Play TV Console)• Real Swing Golf: (Plug-N-Play Dedicated Console)Clients: MLB, NFL, Universal, Midway, Vivendi, Atari, Hard Rock Casino, Bandai Namco, Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, EMI, Charles M. Schulz Museum, Williams Electronics, Gottlieb, Radica, Incredible Technologies and many more.

Yankton, South Dakota, Us

Hired to create advertisements run in various newspapers, magazines and phonebooks. Routinely collaborating with with the company's CEO and various newspaper advertising departments to define marketing strategies and see them through production.

Contracted to work on the game Empires: Quest for Power for the Excalibur BBS. The entire project was run virtually with contributors around the globe.• Created all the graphical assets used in the game.• Created pixel art tile sets for all the environments.• Created pixel art buildings and armies.• Created all UI / menu and HUD assets.• Designed 50% of the level maps.

Brought on to create UI/UX design, user research, personas, A/B testing, storyboards, process flows, competitive analysis, graphic user interfaces. and administer web sites for clients and produce advertising and promotional graphic materials for GSCi's online auction website.

Bachelor Of Arts, Game Art & Design

High School Diploma, Design And Applied Arts