WHY
I create beautiful, immersive environments with interactive technology.
As a teenager, I designed, built and maintained a large saltwater aquatic ecosystem that sustained a spectacular array of the most beautiful organisms in the world. I relished the moments when I could stare at the movement, color and landscape created by the fish and corals. Over those six years, I gained a deep sense of ways that encourage curiosity and wonder in my audience members, and a keenness in shaping a beautifully immersive experience through technology.
HOW
Over the years I have cultivated a skillset in the following:
- Game development
- Physical computing
- Experiential prototyping
- Spatial experience design
- User research
- Interaction design
- 3D modeling
- Graphic design
- Motion graphics
- UI/UX
And, these are the tools that I use:
- Unity3D
- Blender
- Rhino
- Unreal Engine
- Processing
- TouchDesigner
- Ableton
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- Figma
- After Effects
- Premiere Pro
WHO
I'm a creative who uses the approach and tools of design to create new meaning in the world.
Other than being a gummy bear connoisseur, a spontaneous dancer, and a hydrology nerd, I possess an insatiable desire to learn and make with new technologies, techniques, and tools that is both immersive and interactive. I draw inspiration from the natural world and mythologies. I often find myself envisioning how technology affects the relationship between people, place and objects.
My superpower is that I combine my design thinking with business thinking. In my previous life, I enjoyed a 8-year professional career in several technical roles that honed a process for performing user research, persona development, storytelling, and software design, development, and implementation.
For details about my professional experience, see my
LinkedIn profile.“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”
