★Design & Illustration★

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★Resume★



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.professional career

Currently

Senior Lead Designer, UI/UX at Raven Software/Activision, working on the Call of Duty® franchise

Previously

Lead Designer, UI/UX at Raven Software/Activision

Senior Designer, UI/UX at Raven Software/Activision

Before That

March 2010 - March 2014; Associate Creative Director at Discover Mediaworks

August 2003 - March 2010; Art Director, Senior Art Director at Waldbillig & Besteman

September 1999 - August 2003; Graphic Designer at CPM Marketing Group

May 1998 - September 1999; Graphic Designer at Newell Office Products/Rubbermaid


.experience(s)

I am responsible for

  • leading, supporting, mentoring, and growing a talented team of UI/UX artists and designers
  • leading the development of strategy, concept, visual design, and implementation of UI/UX solutions on a world-class, industry-leading game franchise
  • working across studios and stakeholders, to align and guide development of franchise-level features and experiences across multiple products
  • collaborating with other leads and directors to establish, monitor, and evaluate team culture, goals, deliverables
  • creative direction of UI/UX solutions across myriad aspects of the game—from gameplay and in-game UI/UX, to front-end and franchise-level player experiences
  • creation of style guides, roadmaps, design documentation, to guide and establish creative vision, targets, and high-level product goals
  • presenting creative solutions and concepts to internal and external stakeholders
  • assigning project roles and responsibilities amongst internal and external resources
  • feature scoping, resource planning and development of high level roadmaps to strategically serve and support multiple projects
  • working in a custom engine and tools environment to implement UI assets and features

I have

  • led the creative development of interactive, UI/UX, motion, and print media both as a lead and individual contributor
  • collaborated with small and large clients to understand their brand, audience, and strategic needs
  • developed creative in a wide range of digital and traditional media, including: video games, web and interactive, motion, print collateral and advertising, out-of-home, retail and environment user-experiences, packaging, app design, TV and video
  • created a standard set of process and business tools for the management and execution of creative projects
  • led the implementation of an agency's online project management and collaboration system
  • developed and championed an agency/corporate brand evolution and redesign
  • directed and collaborated with freelance designers and writers, interactive developers and engineers, vendors, photographers, videographers, and editors
  • consistently pursued design challenges and opportunities to learn new skills, and broaden my abilities to tell visual stories and build smooth, meaningful, user-experiences

.education

University of Wisconsin-Stout; Bachelor of Fine Art degree in Graphic Design (1998)


.toolset

Adobe Creative Suite/Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, XD, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere, Acrobat, Lightroom, Bridge), Slack, MS Office Suite, Axure, Autodesk Sketchbook Pro, Bink Compression Tools, Keyshot, Element 3D, Unity, HTML, CSS, Coda, Wordpress, Google Earth Pro, Keynote, Omnigraffle, Zoom


.titles

I've worked on

  • Call of Duty Online
  • Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
  • Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, ExoZombies DLC
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops III
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered
  • Call of Duty: WWII
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops 4
  • Call of Duty: Warzone
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War

.brands

I've worked on

Activision®, Call of Duty®, Raven Software, ACS, ADP, American Transmission Company, Brennan's Market, Consumers Credit Union, Capital Brewery, CUNA, CUNA Mutual Group, Discover Wisconsin, DreamBikes, Fauerbach Beer, First Business Bank, Harley-Davidson, Honeywell, Into the Outdoors, Johnson Timber Corporation, Kalahari Resorts, MasterGraphics, (City of Madison)Mayor's Platinum Bike Committee, Menominee Casino Resort, Renk Seed, The Roman Candle Pizza Co., Rubbermaid, St. Vincent de Paul, SupraNet, TIC Federal Credit Union, United Way of Dane County, UW Colleges, Villanova College of Engineering, Volm Companies, The Wilderness Resort, Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, Roughing It In Style