About Me
Highly accomplished art and design professional with proven experience setting the look and feel of award-winning games and products. Expert in leading the full design and development lifecycle, including creating the visual language, brand, style guides, color, fonts, creative direction, and strategy for a product and target audience. Adds value through strong leadership and management, providing guidance to teams to ensure successful implementation of vision and designs. Highly accomplished art and design professional with proven experience setting the look and feel of award-winning games and products. Expert in leading the full design and development lifecycle, including creating the visual language, brand, style guides, color, fonts, creative direction, and strategy for a product and target audience. Adds value through strong leadership and management, providing guidance to teams to ensure successful implementation of vision and designs. Currently a Senior Artist / Designer / UI/UX / Illustrator / Creative Lead with over seventeen years of experience in the mobile, PC, and console gaming and interactive industries working on titles like Star Wars, Marvel Strike Force, Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy for the PlayStation Network, Sony Online Entertainment's Legends of Norrath, and Disney's Club Penguin. . Speciality experience in UI/UX, 2D Art, Illustration and Conceptual Design for the Mobile and Video Games, Marketing and Branding, Print, Traditional Drawing, Painting, Interaction Design and UX Design, Creating low fidelity prototypes in InVisionApp, Wireframing, Strategy and Game Game Design Concepts and Conceits, User Tasks Flow Charts, Conducting Formal and Informal User Test Interviews, Education, Teaching and Mentoring, Information Architecture, Game Design, Visual Development, Storyboards, Character Design, Background Layout and Painter, Graphic Design, Typography, Color Theory, Logo Design, Fonts and Font Design, Color Keys, Animation, Creative Art Direction, Photo Retouching Software experience in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Animate, Adobe After Effects, Auto Desk Maya, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Git, Perforce,Google Products, Box Sync, Slack, Figma, Adobe XD, InVision Studio App, Sketch, Atlassian Jira, Atlassian Confluence, Keynote, Google Sketchup, iOS/ Android development, Windows XP/ Macintosh OSX