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 reimagined life-cycle logistics training as a story-driven adventure set in a magical amusement park. Guided by an AI droid companion named C0-ST (Cost Bot), learners tackled Operating and Support cost management for the part of the lifecycle where budgets quietly disappear and reality sets in, all brought to life through cinematic, AI-driven storytelling grounded in LCSP.
CLCL 018: Contract Data Requirements & Data Rights
This CLCL 018 credential course places acquisition professionals in a scenario-driven experience focused on selecting contract data requirements that impact readiness and cost. Guided by an AI assistant named CLEA, learners tackle Data Item Descriptions, data rights, and risk through cinematic scenarios, interactive tools like the DID Determinator, and just enough gamified chaos to make the lessons stick before the contract does.
ACQ 3200: Adversarial Foreign Investment and National Security
This DAU course turns adversarial foreign investment into a Scooby-Doo-style mystery where the villains are real, the stakes are national security, and the clues involve supply chains and Risk-Based Analysis. Blending live-action and animation, learners investigate shadowy investors, apply acquisition frameworks, and earn ACQ Snacks along the way, because nothing helps uncover threats faster than incentives and a little suspicion.
ACQ Suite: Ensuring the DoD Acquisition Workforce Receive Necessary Data and Data Rights
This Defense Acquisition University ACQ Suite turned multiple acquisition courses into a scenario-driven experience focused on securing data and data rights before mistakes become permanent. Guided by a holographic advisor named Destinee, learners see how early decisions ripple across timelines, negotiations, and outcomes, making dense policy practical, memorable, and far harder to ignore.
CMQ 242: Quality Assurance Simulation for Dimensional Inspection
This DAU course drops Quality Assurance Specialists into a hands-on simulation where precision matters and guessing is not an option. Learners interpret engineering models, select and calibrate virtual tools, and perform dimensional inspections inside a 3D, browser-based environment built with three.js. Randomized scenarios, character-driven guidance, and immediate feedback turn complex measurement tasks into repeatable practice that builds real-world inspection confidence, minus the broken calipers.
EVM 1100: Fundamentals of Earned Value Management
This DAU course concept reimagined EVM fundamentals as a cinematic, narrative-driven adventure designed to make cost and schedule metrics feel less intimidating and far more memorable. Learners follow a new analyst pulled into the fantasy realm of Eveum, where a wizard mentor, interactive quests, and scenario-based challenges turn CPI, SPI, and EAC into tools for survival rather than spreadsheet punishment. Built as a high-fidelity proof of concept using Unreal Engine, the experience showed how immersive storytelling and humor can transform EVM skepticism into learner engagement.
DAU CON TRIO: Cost Accounting Standards
This three-course Cost Accounting Standards series took one of the most regulation-heavy topics in federal contracting and made it visually coherent, navigable, and surprisingly humane. Across CON 7041, 7051, and 7061, the experience replaced dense text walls with clear UI, purposeful graphics, and animated explanations that helped learners understand CAS instead of merely surviving 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.
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.
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