About Me

I'm a freelance UX/UI designer from San Francisco currently living in Los Angeles. I love everything having to do with UX design & design in general, industrial design, and I feel an excitement for typography.
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I love minimal design, clean and straightforward, and how attention can be caught using white space, color, and contrast. I consider myself a hardworking and reliable person who works with passion and who loves making well-designed things.
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In college, I studied theater set design, after several years designing settings for corporate events, I shifted my focus to digital design.

I have worked with clients such as Apple, Acura, Honda, MTV Networks, Beats by Dre, Relativity Media, I'm a life long student of martial arts, specifically Muay Thai, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, American Boxing, and a bit of Taekwondo.

I spend my free-time building custom motorcycles and developing Industrial design products.
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I love working with people that have a passion for what
they do.

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Why Should You Hire Me?

I think these five reasons may persuade you.

1 Hardworking

and passionate.

2 Flexible

and fast. Hits deadlines

3 Resourceful

problem solver.

4 User Focused

User-centered design methodology

5 Detail Oriented

The details are not the details. They make the design.

Creative Director

JAN 2015 - JAN 2019, LOS ANGELES

Led user experience, interface design, and branding efforts for AirCam, a mobile app for photo sharing in public and private groups using geo-location. AirCam raised a Series A round of funding June '18.
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Conducted ongoing competitive research on current apps to define product strategy.
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Created user stories, wireframes, and visual design in collaboration with co-founders and development team.

Art Director, Contract

JAN 2013 - JAN 2015, LOS ANGELES

Collaborated with Director of User Experience and Creative Director, creating information architecture, user stories, and visual design deliverables:
Honda / Acura NSX: Design Mobile WebAdapted information architecture and visual components from desktop to the mobile web.
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Kraft Canada: New Visual Design Desktop and Mobile Directed visual design for both desktop and mobile web.
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Sea World: New Vacation Package and Ticketing System Managed UX for new streamlined vacation package and ticketing portal integrated with existing 3rd party ticket service.

Creative Director, Digital

SEP 2010 - DEC 2012, LOS ANGELES

Collaborated with Relativity Media CEO Ryan Kavanaugh developing branding and user experience for Relativity’s new media arm Rouge Pictures.
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Successfully launching Rouge.com to beta in 3 months, on time, and budget.
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After launch, led senior management discussions visual design, usability, lending insight into design/ positioning strategies for Rouge.com.

Global Creative Director
for Social Media

JAN 2013 - JAN 2015, LOS ANGELES

Built, managed, and mentored an incredibly talented creative team of nine. Five designers, three front-end developers, and one full-time flash developer.
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This team was responsible for the successful incorporation of the Social Projects networking platform on MTV Network properties, MTV.com, The Daily Show, Jackass World, Comedy Central, and VH1 Classics.
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In addition, this team has created high profile entertainment social networking sites for Universal Music Group for artists such as 50cent, Pussy Cat Dolls, and Soul Ja Boy.