As It Is

Co-Director (Artistic Director & Producer)

Watercolor, storybook-like narrative adventure game about social anxiety, vulnerability, and helping others. With As It Is, we want to celebrate the various cultures and identities we see in our world, to love those with differing perspectives, and especially to grow and accept ourselves.

Showcased at IndieCade 2018. PlayNYC 2018 Selection, PixelPop Festival 2018 Selection, MAGFest 2019 Selection, GameDaily Connect 2019 Selection, USC Games Expo 2019 Selection, and MAGWest 2019 Selection. USC Bridge Incubator 2019 Selection. Indie Prize 2019 Finalist.

Tools: Photoshop, Premiere, Asana, Notion
Team Size: 9 people (4 people on art team)

Main Responsibilities:

• Co-led international team of 5 time zones by facilitating meetings, authoring inspiration guides, and assigning weekly sprint tasks
• Painted 68 character sprites, 3 backdrop borders, and 42 other sprites
• Designed all UI: dialogue box, interactable indicators, and titlescreen look
• Illustrated game logo, studio logo, initial character concept art, and mechanic design diagrams
• Provided feedback for artists to emphasize character expression and personality
• Cut multiple trailers in Adobe Premiere Pro
• Worked with design and narrative teams to flesh out mechanics and story
• Designed physical marketing material for stickers, business cards, and festival display
• Created digital marketing content for Egghouse Twitter, blog, and mailing list
• Built slidedecks and gave pitches
• Improved user understanding and ease of use by 80% after collaborating with other testers to conduct RITE usability tests
• Represented team presence as USC Bridge Incubator selection, engaging in weekly discussions with visiting guests (VCs, attorney, consultants, & more)

2017 - ongoing

Alienation

Co-Creator (Artist, Writer, Designer)

2D narrative combat platformer about identity & belonging where you play as an explorer whose spaceship has crashed in the middle of an alien ritual.

Showcased at USC Games Underground Show 2017.

Tools: Unity (C#), Perforce, SourceTree, Photoshop, Premiere
Team Size: 2 people

Main Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with one other developer to design world, narrative, and game mechanics
• Formulated 15 character designs, 66 pixel sprites (character & vfx), 3 fully painted background environments, and 4 storyboard frames
• Wrote 100+ lines of dialogue
• Cut 1-minute trailer in Adobe Premiere Pro
• Conducted playtests and documented feedback

2017

Navigation Robot

Software Engineer, Program Manager, Designer, 3D Modeler

Assistive navigation robot using Intel Joule, LIDAR, and voice recognition created while interning with Microsoft.

Learn more: Hackster.io

Tools: C#, 3D Builder, Teams
Team Size: 3 people

Main Responsibilities:

• Programmed back-end navigation portion of assistive navigation robot by refining existing project to implement node-based indoor path navigation
• Refined and drew navigation UX diagram for better front-end accessibility by allowing input via microphone/display and providing output via speakers/display
• Designed layout of robot add-on parts, routinely collected feedback and iterated on the design through diagrams for stability
• Became familiarized with 3D Builder and implemented robot designs as 3D models
• Mapped, tested, and debugged across 26-node floorplan in XML file to allow future users to customize maps
• Collaborated with other engineers and program managers to author specifications to clearly define objectives and constraints of project
• Defined and executed test cases with other developers
• Provided feedback and reported bugs to the 3D Builder team on side-loaded version to help improve software

2017

Intrepid

World Designer

Competitive 4X space-exploration board game.

Showcased at IndieCade International Festival of Games 2017.

Learn more: Preview Kit

Tools: Photoshop, Paper Prototyping
Team Size: 4 people

Main Responsibilities:

• Designed and refined art/graphic design for tiles
• Protoyped with other designers to tighten game and systems design
• Ran and documented feedback from playtests
• Collaborated to polish rulesheet
• Represented team to showcase at IndieCade

2017

Quiet of the Leaves

Game/UI Engineer, UI Designer

2D narrative-based puzzle game about hiking in the Ozarks with a strained father-daughter relationship.

Featured on Polygon. Showcased at USC Games Demo Day 2017.

Learn more: Itch.io

Tools: Unity (C#), Perforce, Photoshop
Team Size: ~23 people (4 people on engineering team)

Main Responsibilities:

• Implemented dynamic journal system with menu/settings that pauses dialogue and movement & diary entries that unlock and vary depending on player choice in-game
• Consulted and worked with design & art teams to embed emergent narrative into in-game journal's design
• Built drawing system with saving and loading .json files
• Created and designed start menu UI assets and concepts
• Made inspiration/design boards for UI for art team

2016 - 2017

MCPS

Front End Software Engineer, Designer

Educational websites made for Montgomery County Public Schools.

Serves over 4,000 students across 3 different cities (Silver Spring, Gaithersburg, and Kensington, MD) for 7 different schools — live for 6 years and counting.

Live sites: 0 / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5

Tools: Dreamweaver (HTML/CSS), Photoshop
Team Size: 1-2 people (varied on different websites)

Main Responsibilities:

• Developed and designed 7 mobile-responsive educational websites using HTML/CSS for schools
• Created wireframes and mockups in Photoshop for clients
• Migrated website infrastructure to new educator-focused CMS system
• Completed client requests to redesign clearer, more accessible UI/UX

2014