As the Senior Manager UI/UX Designer at Electronic Arts (EA) in Redwood City, California, I led a talented team of designers and artists, ensuring CVAA accessibility compliance and creating rapid prototypes with Adobe XD and Figma. My role involved overseeing design reviews, mentoring team members, and fostering career growth. Additionally, as an individual contributor, I developed and implemented multiple features from interactive prototypes to Unity prefabs.

Took charge of UI design for Star Wars Commander, a Disney Interactive mobile game, overseeing UI design throughout all phases of development. Utilized Unity to create animated transitions and UI states, dialogs, and components. Produced UI visual designs, scalable source art, and final assets as well as UX wireframes, storyboards, and flow charts.

Mobile Division:

Brought on in a senior-level role and managed UI teams to enhance UI/UX design for game development, playing a key role in creating and improving design quality for the Mobile Division and meeting both visual and business objectives. Designed and implemented UX designs in Unity and proprietary development environments.

YoVille:

Revamped the design of YoVille, providing users with a new format and appearance, while producing promotional interfaces to increase virtual sales.

Headed the hiring and development for a small UI team, adopting a hands-on leadership approach while collaborating with project and game designers to create and produce features for live web games.

Project managed optimizations for YoVille on Facebook, overhauling visuals over a 2-week period, working closely with the visual designer and front engineer to recreate and launch a new UI.

Improved interfaces for Gaia online, working product management, design, and technical teams to implement an avatar customization system and user-generated art showcase and purchase flows. Created pixel painted artwork for virtual item sales. Created and implemented user interfaces in HTML and Flash.