UI Director

Playco

May 2021 – Present

• Manage the day-to-day operational tasks of the UI/UX team across different product platforms, including intake, work assignment and progress.

• Mentor and lead the UI/UX design team by providing high level feedback through various product stages

• Collaborate with product and design leadership to shape product roadmaps and requirements

Lead UI/UX Designer

Playco

July 2020 – May 2021

• Conceptualize and create wireframes, user flows and UI game deliverables

• Provide mentorship to senior members of the UI/UX to ensure products maintain a high level of quality and polish.

• Collaborate with a cross functional team of developers, game designers, and artist to create fun and engaging instant games

Lead UI/UX Designer

Game Closure Inc

April 2017 – July 2020 • Mountain View, CA

• Create end-to-end user-flow mockups, low-fidelity wireframes to high-fidelity designs for live ops and new product features

• Develop graphics and promotional materials for new game content releases

• Collaborate directly with engineering, production, game design, art teams, and stakeholders to deliver final products from pre-production to release 

• Prototype new interface designs of existing games to further improve user interactions

Senior UI/UX Designer

Storm8

January 2013 – April 2017

• Create visual wireframes, flash mockups and prototypes to ensure high quality usability/function of flows through iteration and testing

• Conduct regular internal and external usability research and tests for new game
loop features

• Collaborate with production, engineering, game design, and art teams to create and implement flows, assets, transitions, and animations in XCode and OpenGL

• Support weekly content cadences on live games while still maintaining milestone deliveries on internally created titles

UI Designer

DogBFF, Inc

February 2012 – September 2012 • San Francisco, CA

• Created flows, art, and designs for the company webpage/mobile app

• Maintained and updated community presence via social media outlets

UI/UX Designer

6waves Lolapps

March 2010 – February 2012 • San Francisco, CA

• Maintained continual UI updates through feature updates on multiple titles

• Led a team of 3 UI artists to deliver fun and intuitive designs

• Delivered weekly UI art assets for community and growth teams

Graphic Designer

Knight Lights Events

April 2008 – March 2010 • San Francisco, CA

• Managed the creative designs of company brochures, business cards, logos, posters,
and advertising pamphlets

• Created visuals via photo manipulation, color correction, retouching of company images

Academy of Art University

BFA in Web Design and New Media

2008 – 2012 • San Francisco, CA