CV

ABOUT JESS

I'm a game designer with experience as a contributor and lead in graphic design, art direction, UI/UX, motion, and game design.

My ideal role is alongside a small, excited team with something unique to say, where I can help ferry a project forward or establish a vision using any or all of the tools in my toolbox.

I believe in getting my hands dirty, the rule of cool, the value of specificity, and listening to what the project and team needs to become the best version of itself.

A generic CV can be downloaded here.

PROFICIENCIES

Art & Design Software
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe After Effects
  • Adobe Premiere Pro
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Figma
  • Blender
  • Cinema4D
Game Dev Software
  • Unreal Engine 5
  • Proprietary narrative software
  • Perforce & P4V
  • Playfab
Info/Organization Software
  • Miro
  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • Microsoft Suite
Miscellaneous
  • Street Fighter 6
  • Coffee-based beverages
WORK EXPERIENCE

2024–2026

BRASS LION ENTERTAINMENT

SR. DESIGNER on WU-TANG: RISE OF THE DECEIVER

My focus as a designer was to reinforce the player experience and the overall game presentation. My main responsibilities were cinematics, quest design, and leading the character customization team. I contributed to this project during prototype, vertical slice, and pre-production phases using Unreal Engine 5, and collaborated with artists, engineers, technical animators, directors, and designers.

Cameras & Technical Cinematics Design
  • Implemented in-game cinematics, real-time scripted events, and game transitions using Level Sequencer
  • Established cinematic dialogue direction
  • Prototyped a height-dynamic and location-agnostic cinematic camera system for engineer hand-off
  • Authored cinematics for narrative & gameplay
  • Implemented menu-reactive cameras in blueprints
  • Implemented asynchronous online multiplayer cinematics with blueprints and Gameplay Abilities
Quests & Narrative Design
I worked with our Narrative team to develop and implement our quests, and helped develop the larger narrative progression in the game. 
 
  • Designed quests, objectives, and narrative progression
  • Implemented quests using Blueprints and integrated proprietary narrative tools
  • Implemented branching dialogue, quest logic, greyboxed environments, NPCs, and level instances
  • Designed and implemented an evolving hub
  • Developed narrative tools and features with engineers
  • Honed review pipeline and implementation process
Character & NPC Customization (Team Lead)
I led our small character customization team from pitch to production-ready. We developed dev-facing NPC creation tools and a player-facing game feature, leveraging Mutable, Playfab, and outsourcing partners.
 
  • Established feature direction and player experience
  • Collaborated with Engineering for Mutable integration and development of custom features unique to the game
  • Collaborated with Art Director to establish style perspective and art direction
  • Reviewed art assets to meet style standards
  • Determined technical character art guidelines with character art team (seams, interaction logic, asset organization)
  • Oversaw development of ancillary character features (shaders, hair physics, unique customization options)
  • Developed asset tracking, pipeline flows, and assembled outsourcing packages with Production
  • Asset implementation
  • Assembled a board of cultural consultants for authentic representation of Black hair and 90s hip-hop fashion
Additional Responsibilities
  • Implemented Gameplay Abilities
  • Early lookdev for anime-style shaders
  • Environment lighting
  • Feature design (progression, battle pass, player journey)
  • Teaser trailer editing & capture

2021–2024

BRASS LION ENTERTAINMENT

SR. UI ARTIST on WU-TANG: RISE OF THE DECEIVER

On Wu-Tang: Rise of the Deceiver, I established our early UI art direction for our multiplayer action game, highlighting the rich inspirations the game draws from. My work revolved around concepting and tone-setting with light implementation.

DETAILS
  • Establishing UI art direction, art bibles, scope planning
  • Concepting full-screen UIs (shops, dialogue, menus) and modular pieces (9-slices, buttons, modals)
  • Concepting UI animation in 2D and 3D
  • Implementing sub-levels, cameras, and blueprints for diegetic menus
  • Implementing UI with UMG, CommonUI, blueprints, materials, and shaders
  • Created interactive prototypes
  • Concepting accessibility features (high contrast, big text)
  • Created organizational maps for player experience, information architecture, game flow, etc. with UX design

2019–2021

FREELANCE DESIGN & VIDEO

SpinMaster TOYS
At SpinMaster, I created graphics, motion graphics, and video content for Spin Master videos and socials. I also animated a large-scale interactive display for the HQ. I worked with brands including Paw Patrol, Hatchimals, and Bakugan.
 
SoleSavy
SoleSavy is a digital service for sneaker collectors, providing the sneakerhead community with apps, resources, and editorial news. I created social media templates, motion graphics for their video productions, marketing material, and course content on anti-botting sneaker collecting tactics.

2020–2021

JAM3 (NOW .monks)

Jr. Motion & 3D Designer
I animated UI, video content, motion graphics, and 3D assets for apps, sites, mobile games, and promotional videos. In combination with my UX background, my focus was pacing information and directing user attention through information spaces using motion.
  • Animating web experiences, apps, mobile games, and AR experiences in After Effects
  • Dev hand-off through style guides, animation spec libraries, and Lottie
  • Rapid prototyping using 3D and 2D animation
  • Video capture, making 3D environments for mock-ups
  • Notable Clients: Oculus, Prime Video, Estée lauder
Relevant Case Studies:

2018–2019

KONRAD

UI/UX Designer, Motion Designer
As a Ui/UX designer, I created appealing user-driven solutions for a variety of clients from all phases including pitching, planning, and execution. We built marketing sites, complex dashboards, and apps.

As a Motion Designer, I produced exclusive course content for Brainstation, and animated interfaces and motiong raphics for clients.
  • Designed dashboards, apps, and marketing sites in Figma
  • Upheld and audited accessibility standards
  • Created client pitch decks
  • Created packages for dev hand-off
  • Facilitated UX workshops: design-thinking brainstorms, user journeys, research analysis, information architecture, wireframes, prototyping (Axure & Figma), and user testing, 
  • Led a small team to produce, write, and edit 300+ educational videos for online courses on tech & design
  • Notable Clients: LoyaltyOne, BrainStation, Moneris
EDUMACATION

2014–2018

OCAD UNIVERSITY, TORONTO

Bachelor of Design — Graphic Design

2012–2014

YORK UNIVERSITY, TORONTO

Incomplete Bachelor of Fine Arts — Film Production

TEAR AT THE DOTTED LINE

Peace-Out

OPEN TO CHAT

Open to game roles and pro-bono work, especially if you're a small passionate team making something impactful that you can't stop thinking about.

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