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.
