UI/Visual Design
Product Design
Design Strategy
Creative Direction
Design Management
Interaction Design
Motion Design
Native App Design
Responsive Web Design
Presentation Skills
Prototyping
Physical Computing
Creative Coding
Storytelling
Typography
Figma
Sketch
Zeplin
Lottie
Photoshop
Illustrator
openFrameworks
Processing
MAX 8
Cinema 4D
Unity
iWork
Microsoft Office
Mailchimp
Squarespace
CSS
Bootstrap
Javascript
Arduino
C++
- Research, user testing, and redesign of a SaaS management tool
- Led UX & UI for responsive public facing website with accessibility in mind
- Built database of members, non-members, and donors
- Implemented new tools to better manage services
- Sourced, hired, and trained four contractors for influential roles
- Moved organization over to Google Workspace and provided IT support and training
- Streamlined processes for efficiency and transparency
- Led the UI, UX, and visual design for a responsive web-based investment community platform
- Designed investor profiles, new messaging feature, and overhauled search function
- Conducted research, expanded brand guidelines, and formalized a design system
Investor Profiles
New Messaging Feature
Search Redesign
Other Lamp
Assistants With Attitude
Projection Mapping
Gestural Interaction
Unity Game
- Design Team Manager and lead designer working on flows, design library, UI, UX, and interaction design
- Managed project milestones and worked with CEO and CPO on quarterly roadmap
- Supervised overall design for iOS and Android apps
- Provided career mentorship to junior designers
- Liaison to other departments making sure design decisions were well articulated
- Ran usability testing gathered by qualitative and quantitative methods
- Prototyped new features and implemented feedback
- Redesigned Android app featured in the Google Play Store and engagement doubled
Android App Redesign
iOS Sticker pack
iOS App Gamification
- UX design, UI design, and interaction design of new iOS features
- Complete redesign of iOS app
- Worked closely with Developer and QA teams to implement designs and animations
- iOS app featured in the Apple App Store, achieving a 5 star rating
Redesigned iOS App
Check Out Experience
- Visual, interaction, user experience, and motion design for Houzz iOS and Android apps
- Contributed to the Houzz video projects as a title designer and art director
Mobile Onboarding Experience
Titles for Houzz TV some of which can be also be seen on my reel
- Designed user experience and interaction of consumer applications on MacOS and iOS
- Designed titles, themes, and slideshows used by over 4 Million people worldwide
- Developed and nurtured strong relationships with engineering and executive stakeholders
iMovie Titles
iOS Cards App
iPhoto Carousel
Clients Included: Big Film Design, Nickelodeon, MTV, BAM, Sesame Workshop, Bright Eyes Tour Visuals, Nike, The History Channel, NBC Universal, and Discovery Kids. Some of this work can be seen on my reel.
September 2019 - Threads, Computational Arts MA Degree Show, St. James Hatcham Church, New Cross, London
April 2019 - BANG!, Play With Your Food Performance, SET Dalston, London
May 2019 - 2POP||!2POP, Goldsmiths MA/MFA Pop-up Show, Ben Pimlott Building, New Cross, London
Feb 2019 - Get Lerped, Goldsmiths MA/MFA Pop-up Show, St. James Hatcham Church, New Cross, London
March 2019 - Play With Your Food Performance, St. James Hatcham Church, New Cross, London
June 2018 - I Just Wanted To Make A Pillow That Would Talk To Me, MFA Exhibition, Jan and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum, UC Davis, USA.
September 2017 - Transduction, performance by Jiayi Young. I acted as both an assistant and participant. Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
September 2014 - More Cowbell, artist talk on the importance of playfulness and humor in design. Reasons To Be Creative Conference, Brighton, England.
Filtering Based on Device Orientation - US20140092125A1 - Publication Date April 3, 2014
Explored combining design, art, and technology using creative computation
Goldsmiths University of London, UK
MFA Design, 2018 - GPA 4.0
Interdisciplinary Design focusing on sensor technology and physical computing
University of California, Davis, CA
B.S. Cinema and Photography
Concentration in Film Production with double minors in Audio Design and Italian
Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY
Italian Language Skills (intermediate)
2 Silver Telly Awards
Cine Golden Eagle
Best of Show, Rosebud Film Festival
Best Short Animation, Silver Sprocket International Film Festival
2 Rosebud Film Festival Awards
Screenwriting Award, Washington Film and Video Council
Animation Award, Washington Film and Video Council