Jul 2024 – Mar 2025 · 8 mos

• Leading community growth and engagement for Animal Company, one of the most popular games on the Meta Quest.
• Scaled the Discord community to 200,000+ members with 2,000+ daily new users through high-impact community initiatives, in-game events, and consistent content updates.
• Designed and launched The Drip Department, Animal Company’s content creator program, sparking collaborations with TikTok and YouTube influencers that have generated over 500 million organic views across social platforms.
• Established and maintain strategic partnerships with top and emerging VR creators — including JmanCurly, Awaken Toast, and more — to drive consistent earned media and amplify player excitement.
• These efforts helped power Animal Company’s explosive growth to 1 million+ monthly active users within 6 months of launch.

Mar 2021 – Jul 2024 · 3 yrs 4 mos

• Launched and scaled the Creator Toolkit Unity SDK program, empowering 12,000+ developers to create and publish 100,000+ immersive experiences across Web, iOS, Android, and VR platforms.
• Produced developer-focused content, including tutorials, webinars, and live events, to support onboarding and adoption.
• Managed and grew the Spatial.io Discord server to 18,000+ members, creating a vibrant space for creators, developers, and players.
• Partnered with Fortune 500 brands like Siemens, PepsiCo, Walmart, and BMW, as well as public sector organizations (Air Force, Johns Hopkins APL, In-Q-Tel), to deliver innovative solutions for immersive collaboration, training, and storytelling.
• Collaborated with Grammy-award-winning artists and creators, including Ringo Starr, Illmind, Ice-T, and Cliff Bleszinski, to launch high-profile virtual experiences and expand the platform’s reach in creative industries.
• Represented Spatial and its tools at global events like GDC 2023, SXSW, Unity Unite and many other events - driving partnerships and showcasing platform capabilities.

Dec 2020 – Mar 2021 · 3 mos

Nov 2018 – Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• As an Augmented Reality Engineer, I get to build holograms for a living. More specifically, as part of PTC's AR Center of Excellence field engineering team, I get to work with customers all over the world, spread across just about every industry, from autonomous vehicles to medical devices, to federal, aerospace & defense. Using our industry-leading AR platform, Vuforia, I implement AR solutions that address key needs that our customers have, that help their people work safer, smarter and more efficiently. I am very fortunate to be on the front lines of the global digital transformation wave, witnessing the real-world applications for AR first-hand.

Jun 2016 – Oct 2018 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Build augmented & virtual reality experiences to transform the Dow brand, as well as the employee and customer experience on a global level, including for use at the 2018 Olympic Games.
• Identify emerging technologies, and create innovative prototypes that align with business challenges and opportunities.
• Present emerging technology trends and prototypes to executive leadership, as well as government officials, on a regular basis.
• Lead design thinking workshops to understand the diverse needs of stakeholders across our businesses.
• Enable >$10MM growth with a diverse set of strategic B2B and B2C customers, by partnering with our Sales & Marketing teams to create a deeper and more meaningful customer experience.
• Conduct social listening analyses to identify consumer trends, and present results through effective data visualization platforms such as Tableau.
• Collaborate closely across our UX, Sales and Software Development teams by applying agile methodologies to build human-centered products.
• Identify early-growth stage startups for potential partnerships and co-innovation opportunities.

Feb 2015 – Jun 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Develop 100+ Tableau workbooks for our key strategic accounts, which are being used by Dow's Executive Leadership and Sales organization, utilizing scrum and agile methodologies.
• Design and execute redesigned data visualization processes that reduced rework and support time by more than 75%.

Jun 2012 – Feb 2015 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• Build and implement a strategy to roll out Yammer across the company to more than 40,000 employees and executive leaders.
• Establish change management processes, and produce support documentation and videos for multiple critical enterprise-wide collaboration tools: Email/Outlook/Exchange, Intranet Search, Microsoft SharePoint, and file shares.

Oct 2014 – Jun 2015 · 8 mos

• At DriveSafe we deliver vital wellness data generated by wearable technology, such as Google Glass, to keep drivers safe and informed while behind the wheel.
• Developed the company vision and strategy, worked with business and technology partners (including Google), and implemented multiple PR and social media campaigns.

Jan 2011 – Apr 2012 · 1 yr 3 mos

• I founded MoBlue Tech in a mobile app development class in the Fall of 2010 at the University of Michigan. Our flagship product, "Spubble," was conceptualized, designed and built in a 48 hour hackathon competition. Realizing its potential to have a real effect on the way children with autism communicate, we decided to keep on building and refining the app. "Spubble Lite" went up in the iTunes Store in December 2010 and currently has over 420 downloads in 15 countries worldwide (as of April 8th, 2011).
• As CEO, I manage 9 people on 5 different teams in the conceptualization, development and release of unique and innovative mobile apps for special education. These teams include: iPhone development, Android Development, Graphics & Design, Usability & User Testing, and Language & Word.
• We collaborate with various professors and special education programs nationwide as we develop, build and refine our apps to ensure that they are intuitive, useful, and most important of all, fun!
• "At MoBlue Tech, we look to harness the latest capabilities of mobile devices in apps for special education. We believe that every new technology, from augmented reality to Near Field Communication (NFC) can be implemented to better the lives of those with disabilities.