Teaching Graphic Design Studio Courses:
Special Topics: AR/VR
Fundamentals of Interaction Design
Senior Thesis Mentor (III)

Faculty of Interaction Design, Trans-disciplinary Studios, and Humanities & Sciences.

Courses taught include:
• Systems & Users
• Ecosystems
• Independent Study: Sonic Interaction
• Information Architecture
• Microinteractions
• TDS: Intel / Jaguar Land Rover
• Sciences of the Unseen

Additional activities include:
• Interaction Design Assessment Liaison
• Curriculum Advisor to the Chair
• Faculty Council Representative
• Student Academic Policy Committee Member

Guiding students through studio courses in Graphic Design. In addition to providing research and primary development of a Program Blueprint for a User Experience Design department.

Additional actions include:
• Professional and industry connections
• Course development advisor

Courses taught include:
• Intro to Web Design (HTML & CSS)
• Advanced Web Design (JavaScript/jQuery, PHP)
• Communication Design
• Typography 3
• Independent Study: Mobile Application Design
• Senior Degree Project Studio
• Senior Degree Project Jury

Senior Learning Lab Instructor & Lecturer for the Undergraduate Communication Arts Department, focusing on expanding techniques and skills gained in Web 1 and Web 2 Digital Innovation courses. Workshops are structured for developing a fearless attitude towards web design/development through fun and creative exercises.

Worked as a Teaching Assistant for both undergrad and graduate departments.

Courses include:

• Intro to Interaction Design with Philip van Allen, Graduate Media Design. Provided assistance with HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, & jQuery. In addition to Adobe InDesign Digital Publishing Suite, and ActionScript 3.

• New Modes of Reading and Writing with Anne Burdick, Graduate Media Design. Provided assistance with class notation and assisting students in developing various projects using Arduino, Processing, and ActionScript 3.

• Senior Portfolio with Petrula Vrontikis, Undergraduate Graphic Design. Provided assistance with mock interview, lectured on personal branding tactics, and portfolio techniques.

• Communication Studio with Sean Adams, Undergraduate Graphic Design. Provided assistance with concept development, facilitated class critiques, and substitute teacher.

Assisted the Graduate Media Design Department with the development and research for the department's website, spearheaded by core faculty member Ben Hooker. Tasks included designing and prototyping potential web scenarios. Topics included, device-context, mobile, responsive-ness, feeds, and more.

Telematic Tales Research Project with Kjen Wilkens. Participated in the research of a heavily sensored world and the affects this might have on the human art of story telling.

Developed speculative scenarios of information embedded within environments. Tasks included creating imagery of spaces and objects embedded with information displayed in qualitative forms, visual storytelling, programming prototypes, visual design, and graphic design.

Nokia sponsored research project. Animism: Inner Lives, Outer Expressions – An Exploration of Object Animism. This project explores the design opportunities in objects that seem to have inner lives through their expressive behavior.

Tasks included user scenarios, visual storytelling, system design, motion graphics, and writing.

Worked with Eddie Opara in developing the company from its first day as a design start-up, into a boutique multi-disciplinary atelier, and finally its migration into Pentagram in 2010. My role as a designer involved working on project types from printed matter, branding systems, visual research, interactive installations, visual design, interaction design, information architecture, user interface design, front-end web development, and flash programming.

Other actions included:
• Client rapport
• Project management
• Intern training
• Design unicorn

Clients include:
• The Corcoran Group
• FdM Architecture
• J. Walter Thompson
• Halstead Properties
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Potion Design
• SORG Architects
• St. Regis Hotel
• Studio Museum in Harlem
• UCLA Architecture & Urban Design