Sep 2024 – Sep 2025 · 1 yr · Remote

• Lead designer and design technologist for Napster 3D Studio, a browser-based creation and publishing platform for immersive experiences. I define end-to-end product experiences through close collaboration with engineering, content, and technical art teams — blending UX design, prototyping, and systems thinking.
• Next-Gen Studio: Led UX for an AI-powered tool enabling procedural and generative 3D scene creation. Defined product requirements and design objectives based on user research. Co-authored PRDs, mapped workflows, and delivered high-fidelity interactive prototypes. Developed scalable information architecture and taxonomy to align engineering systems with user needs.
• Advanced Editor: Directed the overhaul of iR Studio’s asset management and search UX to support growing 3D content libraries. Designed interaction patterns for viewport navigation, object manipulation, and streamlined publishing. Improved deployment success rates during beta testing.
• Design System: Rebuilt the product’s design system from the ground up to improve consistency, performance, and handoff across cross-functional teams. Created reusable UI components, layout patterns, and clarified in-product UX copy.

Oct 2022 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos · Brooklyn, New York, United States · Hybrid

• Work with the design and engineering teams to apply emerging technologies to studio projects.
• Generative AI Prompt Builder: Led technical implementation of a utility for adjusting LLM prompts with a visual interface. Designed information architecture, wrote front-end interface, and managed deployment.
• Immersive Cycling Game: UX design and prototyping for a Peloton Bike-based game. Led interaction design for tablet and gamepad controls, developed pipeline for making VFX and virtual production assets game-ready, implemented level design. Improved performance using Metal debugger and Unity profiler.
• AR Wearable Developer Tools: Led interaction design and 3D art production for an interactive HMI toolkit packaged with Qualcomm’s platform SDK. Designed animatics and storyboards; wrote WebXR and Unity prototypes; produced real-time 3D assets for AR. Optimized performance using Unity rendering debugger.
• Conference Lead Engagement: Led UX design and technical implementation of a multi-device interactive feature for a conference exhibit. Designed, modeled, and animated 3D characters. Wrote front-end web apps for guest use using three.js, and an ambient visualization app with Unreal Engine.
• VR Security Training Simulator: Developed technical art pipeline for scanning an MGM Resorts property using photogrammetry and adapting it into a 1:1 VR space in Unity. Optimized geometry and surfaces, developed interactions for navigation, and animated MetaHumans with Omniverse AI tools for cinematics.

Jul 2016 – Oct 2022 · 6 yrs 3 mos · Brooklyn, NY

• Clients include: Condé Nast, Giant Spoon, GRADIENT, ImpactXM, INVNT, Jack Morton, Liberty & Company, RES Exhibit Services, Sparks, Tool of N.A.
• Work with clients both independently and integrated into design teams to create digital products, exhibits, and immersive experiences.
• Virtual Awards Gallery: Designed and developed an awards presentation and archive for the Project Management Institute. Planned gallery layout and 3D environment navigation. Wrote web front-end using three.js. Created content editor for client use and trained their team on deployment actions using GitHub.
• Interactive ARCade: Concept art, animations, and optimized game assets for an award-winning promotional series of Pizza Hut boxes printed with Pac-Man image targets for an 8thWall mobile AR game.
• 3D Keynote Stage: Visual design and 3D art production of a virtual production set for Google’s Developer Day keynote. Designed set in partnership with the show producer to accommodate presentation content. Created 3D assets and surfaces using Unreal Engine, and rendered frames to match studio camera tracks.
• Developer Conference Exhibits: Led exhibit design for “sandbox” product experiences at Google I/O. Planned exhibits around content and produced concept renderings for internal discussion and iteration. Drafted technical documentation for custom-fabricated exhibit structures.
• Tech Business Conference: Led design of combined physical and digital interactive elements explaining IBM technologies at their THINK event. Created concept art, designed exhibit structures in parallel with digital content partners, presentation renderings, and construction documentation for custom fabrication.

Feb 2013 – Jul 2016 · 3 yrs 5 mos · New York, NY

• Scenic and graphic design lead for events and brand experiences.
• VR Tennis Simulator: Led UX design and art direction for an immersive referee simulation using the Oculus Rift DK2, part of a sponsorship activation for JPMorganChase at the US Open. Created interface animatics, concept art, and character designs implemented by developers. Designed on-site environmental graphics and custom set pieces to contain VR computer equipment and operator terminals.
• Warehouse Launch Event: Led scenic design and guest UX for an award-winning product launch event. Managed on-site construction, prop styling, and lighting design.
• Interactive Music Venue Game: Creative lead for a digital interactive sponsorship activation at the Chase Forum. Designed and drafted documentation for structural modifications to a Sprinter van, graphic wraps, and supporting environmental graphics. Partnered with contracted developers to fit the digital interaction.

Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 · 1 yr · Brooklyn, NY

• Set and display design for immersive lightshows, design for marketing materials and documentation. Created animatics for light programming, concept art for displays, print and web graphic layouts and product illustrations.

Sep 2010 – Aug 2011 · 11 mos

• Created concept renderings for trade show exhibits and optimized designs for in-house fabrication.

Jun 2010 – Aug 2011 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Design page layouts, edit photographs and copy content, publish website updates, write headlines

Feb 2009 – Aug 2009 · 6 mos

• Created graphics, maps, presentation materials and architectural visualiza-
• tions, conducted design research and hosted gallery events.