The EventScope Project
Lead Designer, Summer 2004 - Present
This full-time job focuses on creating educational, 3D, interactive modules based on data from NASA rover missions. Virtual worlds serve as an intermediary for remote experience.

The Kodak Memory Studio
Project Manager, Summer 2003
This summer internship centered around bringing entertainment approaches to digital album design. The Kodak Systems Concept Center came to my team for fresh new ideas.

Character & Emotion in Online Games
Team Leader, Fall 2003
This research project focused on finding ways to bring more dramatic character and emotional impact to videogames, especially online games. We drew on our contacts at Electronic Arts as resources and as clients.

Summersend
Producer/Designer, Spring 2004
Believing that our research into character and emotion in games was truly breakthrough, we designed this independent study around proving some of our concepts.

The Interactive Dome Project
Producer/Designer, Spring 2004
This project exists as an exploration of interactivity in an immersive environment. We have a portable dome, much like a planetarium, for which we are prototyping entertainment experiences.

Augmented Reality Prototyping for Entertainment
Producer/Designer, Spring 2003
My team developed this project from scratch, pitching it to the ETC faculty. We developed two entertainment prototypes revolving around augmented reality technologies.

Building Virtual Worlds
3D Modeller/Designer, Fall 2002
In this project-based class, small student teams built 5 virtual reality worlds in about 2 weeks each. I worked both as a 3D modeller and as a designer.

Mars Exchange Live
Designer, Fall 2003
Working with the CMU Remote Learning and Experience Lab, I was part of a team that developed a design for an educational online virtual world, using data from NASA missions to Mars.

Fine Art
I have been a practicing artist for as long as I can remember. In college, I primarily studied sculpture, but my work includes blacksmithing, printmaking, digital art, and much more.

Graphic Design
I have worked as a graphic designer, both on staff at an Internet company and freelance. I have created logos, websites and other marketing collateral.