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I've helped hundreds of clients create, expand, and maintain their digital experience, from global brands to local businesses. I've had the honor to have mentored tons of designers and helped them get jobs at top tech companies.

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Stats

15

Years of Designing

8

Years in Design Management

35

People Managed

25

Designers Managed

450+

Designers Taught

15k+

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Services & Capabilities

Design

  • Application Design
  • Art Direction
  • Brand Identity
  • Concept Development
  • Information Architecture
  • Photography
  • Prototyping
  • Responsive Design
  • User Experience (UX)
  • User Interface (UI)
  • User Stories
  • Wireframing

Frameworks, Services, & Languages

  • Algolia
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Firebase
  • Forge
  • FlareApp
  • GIT
  • Google Maps API
  • Google Transcribe
  • HotJar
  • HTML & CSS
  • Inertia.js
  • JavaScript
  • Laravel
  • Mailgun
  • Mailtrap
  • MYSQL
  • Node
  • Particle.io
  • PHP
  • Pinterest API
  • SASS
  • Shell
  • Stripe
  • Twitter API
  • Uploadcare
  • Vue
  • Webflow
  • WordPress

Management

  • Agile Methodology
  • Budget/Finance
  • Client/Designer Workflow
  • Marketing
  • Project Management
  • Team Management

Clients

I've collaborated with major brands and companies worldwide by providing them with research, design, prototyping, and development. I've made games, apps, internal and external tools. The web is my specialty.

HP logo
Fox Logo
Despicable Me Logo
NAI logo
Dieline Logo
IHOP
Latinx21
United States Geological Survey
Farm Design
Consensus
Xano
Liquor License Auctioneers
CSUN
Cabo Wabo Tequila
Allen Bikes

My Startups

I have been creating businesses for the last 16 years. I am very proud of my failures and success and the incredible learning and insights I have gained.

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The Ultimate Collage Maker App

Founder

2013 – Present / Moodzer.com

Created online web application used by thousands of creatives to quickly build mood boards—after discovering need for designers to create project mood boards more-efficiently. Designed, developed application. Created business model. Launched corporate strategy. Hired developers, designers to expand functionality.

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Online Learning Platform

Co-Founder

2017 – 2020 / CodeTime.io

Created website to enhance overall design community, complement lectures at ArtCenter and CSUN. Built online instructional video channel with 90+ video series, 700+ free lessons providing resources for any designer—100%-free, available to anyone.

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Bootstrap CSS Theme Generator

Co-Founder

2017 – 2018

Created theme generator for popular Bootstrap 4 framework—empowering users to easily-customize Bootstrap CSS via fun, intuitive, instant generator—saving designers & developers excessive time, eliminating the need to code.

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Interactive Design Agency

Co-Founder

2010 – 2011

Founded this agency designing & developing in-house product design, focusing on clients seeking interactive projects. Consulted with clients, drafted proposals; led presentations, web development, design.

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Lifestyle Clothing Company

Founder

2005 – 2010

Leveraged passion for illustrations and printing to found alternative lifestyle fashion company. Created 300+ designs, cultivated relationships with wholesalers, buyers / retailers. Manufactured samples, partnered on large production runs—created $10K+ monthly recurring revenue within first 90 days.

Teaching

With almost ten years of teaching interaction design, I am very proud to have helped students connect creative and communicative mediums and am honored to have impacted their careers and guided their growth as designers and developers.

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ArtCenter College of Design

2017 – Present

I teach courses spanning multiple levels within the graduate and undergraduate Graphic Design and Interaction departments, including:

  • Graduate Visual Interaction Design
  • Visual Interaction Design 1, 2, 3
  • Digital Solution Making
  • Interaction Prototype 1, 2, 3, 4
  • Advanced Interactive Prototyping
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California State University, Northidge

2011 – 2018

I taught web design courses ranging from intermediate to advanced, with an emphasis on WordPress-based applications, website creation, and prototyping. Course learning outcomes included core web fundamentals, creative briefs, sitemaps, wireframes, mood boards, style tiles, design compositions, and front/back-end development.

  • Introduction to Web Art
  • Web Design
  • Advanced Web Design

Leadership Values

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Better

However, you find something, leave it better than you found it. It could be fixing some code, or maybe it's picking up some random trash on the ground.

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Open

Even if you think you are an expert at something, approach every challenge with an open unjaded mind.

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Fast

Race to your failures so you can sit back and enjoy your successes.

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Experiences

Everything we interact with actively or passively is an experience we must understand and analyze.

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Beyond

Anticipate a need or problem before it even arises. A client may approach you with a problem today, but the real problem they may face is not yet known.

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Fearless

Learning to code can be intimidating, but approaching it without fear will expedite your growth.

Talks / Workshops

I give keynotes and talks about design, product management, and code for conferences and universities.

  • 04/2021

    Future Roles in Interaction Design

    Clubhouse with Petrula Vrontikis

  • 10/2020

    How to Land your Dream Job

    TheFutur

  • 10/2018

    Mood Boards

    California State University, Northridge

  • 07/2018

    IoT, Digital Companies and the E-Business Revolution

  • 06/2018

    Design Slam

    ArtCenter College of Design

  • 04/2016

    The Web

    California State University, Northridge

  • 12/2016

    Code Bootcamp

    California State University, Northridge

  • 04/2015

    The Web

    California State University, Northridge

  • 04/2014

    The Web

    California State University, Northridge

  • 04/2011

    Basic HTML

    California State University, Northridge