Design Portfolio
The Tanzu Developer Tools shown in the 3 supported coding environments My Role: Lead Product Designer for Tanzu Developer Tools.Technologies Used: Figma, Dovetail, Miro, UserZoom, VS Code, IntelliJ, Visual Studio, K9s, Tanzu CLI, kubectl, GCP, Azure.Methodologies: Usability studies, research synthesis, ideal experience exercise, rapid prototyping, iterative design, and a lot of collaboration with cross-functional partners (PM, …
I had recently joined a new product called Storage Insights which is cloud-based enterprise storage monitoring software. My first end-to-end design was creating something that enabled our users to understand which storage systems need their attention, then obtain details about that system. Storage Insights had a dashboard already called the NOC (Network Operations Center) Dashboard, …
This Setup Experience project followed the Understanding Storage project, and I was actually inspired by that project to suggest it. The understanding storage experience I created was received so well by our executive chain and offering management, they wanted it to become the default page users saw when logging into Storage Insights. While thinking about …
In addition to conducting and assisting with dozens of usability tests involving our customers to validate and improve upon my designs, I have had specific and measurable impact on the way that my department and my company as a whole interacts with users and generates research data. I identified (I proposed to management) and addressed …
You can check out my Star Wars galaxy sector map here! A fun side project I created is a map of the Star Wars galaxy. I was inspired to create this map because I began playing a Star Wars role playing game, and a significant part of the game involved traveling between sectors (sections …
Bite Size Biographies is a podcast project I created. The collective episodes have been listened to over 12,000 times and it has 1,051 subscribers as of March 2021. It was featured as a Staff Favorite for over 90 days on CastBox.fm. It peaked on the Podcast charts: “USA – Society & Culture” at #221 “Global …
When I began working on Spectrum Scale they were in the middle of an abandoned re-design. The previous design team departed due to conflicts with the developers, and our design team was tasked with working with the developers to complete the re-design in what had become a time-constrained release window. The 3 main improvements I …
I was hired at IBM Tucson at the end of April 2013. Within 3 months I co-conducted a usability research session* for our storage software. I authored the report which guided the team’s development, and followed up with them to ensure customer data was integrated properly. At 4 months I lead my first usability study …
Lokir’s Tomb is the first level I created using the Creation Kit that Bethesda provides with The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim. I followed the Level Design tutorial on the Creation Kit wiki, adding my own flare and style as I progressed through the tutorial steps. The result is a short and dark journey through the ruined …
My Role: Product Owner, Front End Engineer, SCRUM Master Technologies Used: Django, Python, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Jquery, MySQL; Photoshop, Visio, GroupMe (time tracking), Trello (deliverable tracking) This E-Commerce jewelry store was developed by a team of 8 in my Software Engineering class using Django on the back-end, and HTML/CSS/JS on the front-end. I was nominated by the …
My Role: Front End Engineer Technologies Used: CSS, HTML, PHP, JavaScript, Jquery, WordPress, MySQL The President of the Video Game Development Club approached me and requested that I improve the look and feel of the sidebar of the VGDC page, as well as remove the search bar and implement a log-in modal in the top right. I …
Download the game here! My Role: Game Designer, Software Engineer, Project Manager Technologies Used: C#, Unity3D, Futile Library Download our game design document Dogfighter is a local multiplayer space combat game programmed in C# using the Unity Engine and the Futile library. Two players compete versus one another, each choosing one of a number of ships. The …
My Role: Front End Engineer (primary), Designer Technologies Used: CSS, HTML, PHP, JavaScript, Jquery, WordPress Feedback Foodies is a project I completed at UCSD which introduced me to the Cognitive Aspects of digital design. The project introduced me to developing a site for a customer, including how to properly interface with a client and how to acquire …
My Role: User Experience Designer Technologies Used: Photoshop, Powerpoint, Prezi Methodologies Used: Contextual Interviews, Consolidated Sequence Model, Personas, Affinity Diagram, Prototypes Our group practiced modern Contextual Design principles to re-design the internet browser tab. For a detailed analysis of our work please download and refer to our Final Paper here (52 pages) We gathered the data which we …