π Bio
Experienced Digital Product Designer with 16+ years working in architecture, branding, and tech. Enjoys going from 0-1 on products and helping them find market fit. Comfortable adapting while in uncertain or ambiguous conditions. Has shipped large and small scale products, features, and services. Currently art & design directing org wide efforts at Meta. Passionate about AI safety.
π² Employment
Meta
Menlo Park, CA & Remote | 10/2018-Present
Art Director - Reality Labs
Org wide art & design direction impact for Generative AI, future of XR, VR Animation, brand & marketing efforts. Often supporting high priority company efforts.
Product Designer - XR & 2D (4+ years)
End-to-end design for Quill and Quill Theater - An immersive VR creation tool and content ecosystem.
Early design support for Oculus Media Studio, Oculus TV, and VR Media Future Initiatives.
Horizon product working across all form factors.
Foresight/product market fit team under growth pilar.
Fjord
Interaction Designer
San Francisco, CA | 03/2017-10/2018
Responsible for design deliverables on mobile, tablet, web, and responsive form factors.
Built immersive and interactive VR demos that use storytelling to convey new service concepts.
Gensler
Experience Design Lead
San Francisco, CA | 10/2013-03/2017
Spatial design for flagship and roll out retail. From brief to build. Seven brands built and rolled out our work with multiple locations each.
Performed inside specialty team focused on blending digital experiences with physical spaces. Four brands built and launched our work.
Used virtual reality + video game engines to prototype, test, and visualize designs.
WD Partners
Lead Designer
San Francisco, CA | 03/2011-10/2013
Interbrand
Spatial Designer
Ohio, Singapore, Seoul | 2007-2011
βοΈ Education
Cleveland Institute of Art
Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Spatial Design | 2002-2007
General Assembly (San Francisco)
User Experience Design Course | 2013
Front End Web Development Course | 2016
βοΈ Attributes
Adaptable
Generative
Systematic
Strategic
Visual
Curious
Playful
π§ Skills
End-to-end Product Design (XR, Mobile, Web, Tablet)
Product Vision/0-1 Product Creation
Product Market Fit (PMF)
Foresight
Sprinting
Whiteboarding
Design Systems
Cross Discipline Collaboration (research, data, content, eng, legal, mgmt, leadership)
Mentoring
Interviewing
Directing
Spatial (Architecture) Design
Storytelling and Video
π§ Tools
Universal: Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Procreate, G Suite
Digital Product: Figma/Figjam, Usertesting.com
VR: Quill, Unity + VRTK, Oculus Medium, Google Blocks, Gravity Sketch
3D: Blender, Shapr3D
AI: Flowframes, Ebsynth, Image Upscalers, Midjourney, ChatGPT, speech to speech synthesis tools.
Media: DaVinci Resolve, Premiere, OBS, Logic Pro, Audacity
Collaboration: Trello, Discord, Asana, Confluence
Art: Aesprite, ShaderGlass
Code (itβs been a while): HMTL, CSS, JavaScript + JQuery
π£ Social
βοΈ Writing & talks
Interaction '18 Talk (VR Design)
Quill User Story (ASW)
Engadget Article (ASW)
Tech@FACEBOOK Article (ASW)
Oculus Blog (ASW)
Oculus Blog (Quill Corner)
Medium Article (VR Design)
Cubebrush Article (Day in the life)