Designing Meaning from Complex Information
Blending narrative, design, and technology to make complexity meaningful.
I’m a Creative Director who believes great design should do more than check boxes. It should make people care. If something doesn’t connect on a human level, it’s probably just expensive wallpaper.
I’m passionate about storytelling, whether it shows up through film, animation, visual effects, or carefully crafted design details most people never notice but would miss if they were gone. I work across animation, illustration, video compositing, and design, which means I’m just as comfortable building the story as I am executing it.
I love art created with new technology, traditional techniques, or a slightly irresponsible mix of both. I pay attention to details, believe humor makes hard work survivable, and try to leave every project clearer, smarter, and more engaging than I found it.
CLCL 012b: Product Support O&S Cost Management Capstone
This CLCL 12b credential course turned life-cycle logistics training into a story-driven adventure in a magical amusement park. Guided by AI droid C0-ST (Cost Bot), learners explored Operating and Support cost management through cinematic, AI-driven storytelling grounded in LCSP.
CLCL 018: Contract Data Requirements & Data Rights
CLCL 018 puts acquisition professionals in a scenario-driven course on choosing contract data requirements that affect readiness and cost. With guidance from AI assistant CLEA, learners explore DIDs, data rights, and risk through cinematic scenarios, interactive tools, and light gamification.
ACQ 3200: Adversarial Foreign Investment and National Security
This DAU course turns adversarial foreign investment into a mystery-driven learning experience focused on national security. Through live-action, animation, and gamified investigation, learners examine supply chains, apply Risk-Based Analysis, and uncover hidden threats.
ACQ Suite: Ensuring the DoD Acquisition Workforce Receive Necessary Data and Data Rights
This Defense Acquisition University ACQ Suite transformed multiple acquisition courses into a scenario-driven experience on protecting data and data rights. Guided by a holographic advisor named Destinee, learners saw how early decisions shaped timelines, negotiations, and outcomes.
CMQ 242: Quality Assurance Simulation for Dimensional Inspection
This DAU course places Quality Assurance Specialists in a hands-on 3D simulation where precision is essential. Learners interpret models, use virtual tools, and perform inspections in randomized scenarios that build real-world confidence.
EVM 1100: Fundamentals of Earned Value Management
This DAU course concept reimagined EVM fundamentals as a cinematic adventure. Learners followed a new analyst into the fantasy realm of Eveum, where a wizard mentor and scenario-based challenges turned CPI, SPI, and EAC into practical tools for survival. Built in Unreal Engine, the proof of concept showed how storytelling and humor could make EVM more approachable and memorable.
DAU CON TRIO: Cost Accounting Standards
This three-course Cost Accounting Standards series made one of the most regulation-heavy topics in federal contracting more clear, navigable, and humane. Across CON 7041, 7051, and 7061, the experience replaced dense text with clear UI, purposeful graphics, and animation that helped learners understand CAS instead of just endure it.
BFM 0380 RDT&E Budget Exhibits
CTEC developed BFM 0380 RDT&E Budget Exhibits as a scenario based learning experience set in a realistic workplace that slowly reveals it is not entirely normal. Learners are guided by a mentor narrator named Cal, whose calm delivery and suspiciously good timing suggest this is not just another budget course. It is a journey. With paperwork. And consequences.
DCMA Orientation
DCMA Multifunctional Orientation marked DAU’s shift beyond Composica into HTML5 and Articulate development. Built as a SharePoint-hosted onboarding experience, it used video, animation, interactive modules, and a terminology game to introduce new employees to DCMA.
DAU Corporate Ladders
Corporate Ladders was created as supplementary instructor-led training material for DCMA acquisition and logistics specialists. Focused on the risks and challenges of nonconforming materials, it was built in Articulate 360 as one of DAU’s early Articulate-based learning objects, marking part of the organization’s initial move beyond older legacy development tools.
DAU INST 125: THINKATOPIA
DCMA INST 125 was created as a companion piece to instructor-led training and built in Articulate 360. Set in the mythical town of Thinkatopia, the experience follows learners as they are guided by their trusty robot companion, Think-R2000, or Think-R for short, through a series of scenario-based encounters tied to job best practices.
Owens & Minor University AVHAP
Built and launched the AVHAP online training for Owens & Minor University, a patient-centered value analysis course designed to teach healthcare leaders how to evaluate products and services using evidence, outcomes, and strategic decision-making. I directed the creative vision, developed UI/UX, crafted graphics and animatics, and programmed the course in Articulate 360.
GENZYME – LEMTRADA
Designed the visual experience for an interactive tablet application introducing Lemtrada to Sanofi Genzyme sales representatives, helping them confidently explain a complex MS therapy to physicians without sounding like they swallowed a clinical trial. Also created a companion marketing video to launch the experience to the sales team.
Youth Civil Rights Academy
Designed and built the Youth Civil Rights Academy website in WordPress, creating a visually engaging, client-maintainable platform that supports youth-focused civil rights education. Developed all graphics, UI layouts, and content formatting while aligning the site’s look and feel with companion educational video content produced by the University of Michigan Academic Innovations team. Serious subject matter, zero joyless web design.
Federal Consulting Group: Sales Force Integration
Led the creative direction and delivery of a full website redesign and Salesforce integration for the Federal Consulting Group, modernizing the organization’s digital presence to reflect the sophistication of a private-sector consulting firm while maintaining federal credibility. Built in Drupal with a focus on long-term maintainability and internal ownership.
AI Art Experimental Animation
Mystix: Personal Project - Web Comic
Mystix is a web comic style narrative set in a rain soaked, neon lit Midwestern city where ancient magic never disappeared. It just learned how to keep a low profile. Inspired by Detroit and Chicago, the world blends old mythology with a light cyberpunk underworld and a goth street level vibe, where arcane symbols hide in graffiti, magical artifacts pass through everyday spaces, and mythological forces quietly coexist with people who already have enough problems. The story is character driven and atmospheric, exploring power, legacy, and what happens when the past refuses to stay buried.
A brief montage of the products I have personally touched over the last few years as the Creative Director at CTEC
UX Design
Illustration
Marketing
Consulting
eLearning
Design Systems
Front-End Development
Logo Design
Branding
Interaction Design
Animatics
UX Wireframing
Leadership
Mentoring
Workforce Development
Medical Illustration
Logo Design
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Creative Director
CTEC
April 2014 - Present
Senior Graphic Designer
GP Strategies
Jan 2004 - March 2014
Creative Director
PerformTech Inc.
April 1999 - May 2003
Graphic Designer
PerformTech Inc.
March 1998 - March 1999