Exploring the intersection of where curiosity and motivation meet learning design and technology
Technical Expertise & Development
Strategic Leadership, Vision & Management
Strategic Leadership, Vision & Management
Extensive experience designing and creating digital media
- 3DoF/6DoF.
- Virtual environments, simulations.
- Web, headset, and mobile.
- Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Extended Reality (XR).
- Digital video.
- Formal / informal education, public engagement, and marketing.
- Educational storytelling.
- Non-linear adaptive gamified learning.
- UI
Extensive experience designing and creating digital media
- 3DoF/6DoF.
- Virtual environments, simulations.
- Web, headset, and mobile.
- Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Extended Reality (XR).
- Digital video.
- Formal / informal education, public engagement, and marketing.
- Educational storytelling.
- Non-linear adaptive gamified learning.
- UI / UX / World-building.
Advanced proficiency in 2D/3D digital image and video creation
- Design, architect, create, and program game-based adaptive learning environments.
- Develop simulations, linear video, and streaming modules, across multiple platforms.
- Capture, edit, and deploy linear and non-linear 360° imagery.
- Visual transformation, 3D modeling, editing, and rendering for scientific visualization and education.
Technology in Learning Design
- Educational techniques using adaptive content frameworks.
- Branching logic for personalized learning pathways.
AI integration
- Integration in media design.
- AI-driven interactivity.
- User feedback mechanisms to tailor educational content and adaptivity.
Strategic Leadership, Vision & Management
Strategic Leadership, Vision & Management
Strategic Leadership, Vision & Management
Driving development of award-winning digital learning technologies
- Design and create digital learning tools used globally by over 90,000 learners.
- Lead the integration of adaptive, immersive interactive learning experiences.
- Direct the development of user-friendly ADA-compliant web-based VR authoring tool.
Oversee full project life cycles
- Dig
Driving development of award-winning digital learning technologies
- Design and create digital learning tools used globally by over 90,000 learners.
- Lead the integration of adaptive, immersive interactive learning experiences.
- Direct the development of user-friendly ADA-compliant web-based VR authoring tool.
Oversee full project life cycles
- Digital media, VR, AR, XR
- Interactive simulations
- Gamified learning
- Digital educational tools
- Museum exhibits (e.g., Smithsonian Museum, NASA, Tech Museum of Innovation).
Creation of a 5,300 sq. ft. multi-room immersive interactive media and virtual reality venue
- Programmed and digitally created multi-system fully interactive immersive experiences.
- Manage the daily operations for 24,000+ customers annually.
Led award-winning multi-disciplinary development teams across three NASA centers
- Technical Director and R&D lead in NASA's education division.
- Pioneer of 360° virtual field trips.
- Co-led the redesign of one of NASA’s key websites.
- Supervise multimedia and award-winning software development teams across technical and creative roles.
Define and manage technical teams while addressing interpersonal dynamics
- Coordinate cross-functional international teams of developers, designers, educators, and researchers across institutions.
- Clear collaborative communication and goal alignment across a diverse range of stakeholders, partners, and cultures.
Digital Learning & Educational Innovation
Strategic Leadership, Vision & Management
Digital Learning & Educational Innovation
Pioneering adaptive digital and 360° immersive technologies including gamified learning
- Enhance learner engagement, motivation, curiosity, and accessibility.
- Simplify complex concepts for general audiences.
- Transform scientifically significant locations around the world into engaging, and understandable learning experiences.
- Design inno
Pioneering adaptive digital and 360° immersive technologies including gamified learning
- Enhance learner engagement, motivation, curiosity, and accessibility.
- Simplify complex concepts for general audiences.
- Transform scientifically significant locations around the world into engaging, and understandable learning experiences.
- Design innovative, non-linear, multi-path personalized learning projects.
- Support differentiated instruction.
- Enable place-based learning.
- Integrate evolving technologies (AI, Meta-Humans, gamification) into adaptive educational tools.
Mentoring and training
- Instruct graduate students in advanced 3D design integration and immersive technologies.
- Mentor developers on technology and learning design practices.
- Develop course-ware for numerous university-levels across a range of disciplines.
- Conduct multiple training sessions guiding learners in using various software tools.
- Enhance users' software proficiency and their ability to design and share engaging digital experiences.
Outreach and Marketing
Technical Skills, Tools, & Development Principles
Digital Learning & Educational Innovation
Collaborative team experience developing and translating product features into marketing communications
- Product videos, brochures, live presentations, webinars, trailers, print, and training guides.
Rigorous product and user experience testing
- Uncovering user needs, usability obstacles, and feature priorities.
- Inform product strategy and ro
Collaborative team experience developing and translating product features into marketing communications
- Product videos, brochures, live presentations, webinars, trailers, print, and training guides.
Rigorous product and user experience testing
- Uncovering user needs, usability obstacles, and feature priorities.
- Inform product strategy and roadmap development.
- Iterative design improvements.
- Optimization of UI/UX.
- Alignment with project KPIs.
Multiple conference and product training programs - internal and external
- Drive adoption.
- Boost engagement.
- Improve user retention across diverse product lines.
- Collaborate and inform.
Driving various educational outreach initiatives
- Craft visions for immersive digital and immersive virtual experiences.
- Short and long term roadmaps for engaging a diversity of learners.
Research & Recognition
Technical Skills, Tools, & Development Principles
Technical Skills, Tools, & Development Principles
Recognized with over 40 prestigious industry awards and media accolades
- Excellence in interactive design.
- Educational multimedia.
- Virtual learning environments.
- Excellence in entertainment media.
Published extensively
- More than 65 top journals, peer-reviewed papers, research studies, abstracts and presentations.
- Research on educational technolo
Recognized with over 40 prestigious industry awards and media accolades
- Excellence in interactive design.
- Educational multimedia.
- Virtual learning environments.
- Excellence in entertainment media.
Published extensively
- More than 65 top journals, peer-reviewed papers, research studies, abstracts and presentations.
- Research on educational technology, virtual learning and digital pedagogy.
- Outstanding Paper of the Year by the Journal of Geo-Science Education, recognizing national leadership in virtual learning.
Invited keynote and panel speaker
- Numerous major conferences on digital learning, immersive environments, and gamification.
Contribute to the evaluation of adaptive learning tools
- Assess effectiveness, engagement, and learning impact across diverse student populations.
U.S. Patent
- “Method and apparatus for teaching using exploration of a virtual environment.”
Technical Skills, Tools, & Development Principles
Technical Skills, Tools, & Development Principles
Technical Skills, Tools, & Development Principles
Technical
- 3° and 6° VR / AR / XR / AI
- Unity C# / Pano2VR / Unreal
- HTML / CSS / JS
- Complete Adobe suite
- 3D / 2D graphics
- Video/Audio editing
- Figma
- Numerous development/design programs.
Learning design
- Reverse design / backwards design model.
- Adaptive feedback design.
- ADDIE / SAM models.
- 5E model.
- Agile project management.
- LMS - Canvas / Blackboard / Mo
Technical
- 3° and 6° VR / AR / XR / AI
- Unity C# / Pano2VR / Unreal
- HTML / CSS / JS
- Complete Adobe suite
- 3D / 2D graphics
- Video/Audio editing
- Figma
- Numerous development/design programs.
Learning design
- Reverse design / backwards design model.
- Adaptive feedback design.
- ADDIE / SAM models.
- 5E model.
- Agile project management.
- LMS - Canvas / Blackboard / Moodle / Torus.
Game Design
- MDA game design principles (Mechanics, Dynamics, Aesthetics).
- Digital non-linear narrative storytelling.
- Task-based progressive levels of mastery.
- UI / UX / World-building.
- Game-based learning design combined with the three principles of novelty space (cognitive, psychological, and geographic).
recognition
Vega Centauri Award: Overall Website Experience, Surviving Extinction learning adventure
W3 Silver Award: Educational Website, Surviving Extinction learning adventure
Journal of Geo-Science Education. Outstanding paper of the year
Recognized nationally for innovative & effective learning produced in virtual environments
Epson Pano Awards – VR 360 category Zumaia Spain imagery
The National Science Foundation and Popular Science Vizzies award – Finalist in games and apps
Communicator Award – Winner - Academic Education
Epson Pano Awards – 360 Panama Jungle imagery
Epson Pano Awards – 360 Shark Bay imagery
Epson Pano Awards – 360 Teotihucan Mexico imagery
Epson Pano Awards – 360 Grand Canyon imagery
Silver Telly Award – Overall multimedia development
Gold Remi Award Worldfest Houston International film festival – New Media / Multi-Video
Aegis Award – Interactive Training and Education
Communicator Award – Excellence in Interactive New Media and Multimedia Development
Golden Web Award – NASA Quest Website
Videographer Award – Award of Distinction
George M. Low Team Award – NASA’s highest award to a contract team
Raytheon Manager of the Year Award
Silicon Valley International JOEY Award – Interactive Training & Education
Telly Award - Overall Multimedia Excellence
Telly Award - Best use of Graphics
AXIEM Award - Excellence for Interactive Entertainment Media
AXIEM Award - Creativity for Interface Design
AXIEM Award - Graphic and Logo Design
AXIEM Award - Excellence in Interactive Media
OMNI Award - Overall Excellence Educational Interactive Media
OMNI Award - Best Use of Graphics
Macromedia e-learning Innovations Award - Technical Achievement
Columbus International Film and Video Festival - Honorable Mention
Raytheon Exceptional Team Award
Contractor of Excellence - Gate to Gate / Astro-Venture / Quest
Certificate of Recognition - Mars Virtual Exploration Project NASA
Certificate of Recognition - Lunar Prospector Internet Simulation NASA
Certificate of Recognition - Exploring Aeronautics Project NASA
Contractor of Excellence - Mars Virtual Exploration Team NASA
NASA’s Space Act Award - Mars Virtual Exploration Project NASA
Nominated Software of the Year - Mars Virtual Exploration Project NASA
Space site of the week - Mars-sites NASA website
Space Views Award - Mars-sites NASA website
Products and projects
Are We Alone?
Adaptable Immersive educational experience
Unique multi-platform framework
Based on the search for life in the universe
ASU
Polar Explorer
Gamified VR experience
Exploring climate change and permafrost of Alaska
ASU, NAU, CU
Tour It
Virtual Tour Authoring Environment
Allows creation of 360° tours via drag and drop interface
ASU
Are We Alone?
Adaptable Immersive educational experience
Unique multi-platform framework
Based on the search for life in the universe
ASU
Polar Explorer
Gamified VR experience
Exploring climate change and permafrost of Alaska
ASU, NAU, CU
Tour It
Virtual Tour Authoring Environment
Allows creation of 360° tours via drag and drop interface
ASU
Rising Seas – Hawaii’s Climate Change Challenge
Adaptable 360° virtual field trip experience. Understanding the effects of sea water rise in the Hawaiian communities
ASU, Kamehameha Schools
How Plants Influence the Movement of Water
Three-Location Educational Virtual Experience simulating the ways vegetation, water, the soil and the atmosphere work together
ASU, UT Austin
Surviving Extinction
Non-linear gamified learning experience
Based on bio-evolution, evolving animal traits, and mass extinctions
ASU
Culture and heritage of the Mahukona navigational Heiau
360° educational virtual field trip experience
ASU, Kamehameha Schools
Roden Crater
360° educational virtual field trip experience. Natural and Cultural surroundings of Roden Crater and the Colorado Plateau
ASU, Herberger Institute for Design
Makalawena and the invasive species of the fish-ponds
360° educational virtual field trip experience
ASU, Kamehameha Schools
Dino Doom
Six part virtual experience based on the discovery of the dinosaur extinction
ASU - Habitable Worlds / Bio Beyond
Rise of Animals - Nilpena: The first multicellular animals
360° educational virtual field trip experience with adaptable feedback
ASU - Habitable Worlds / Bio Beyond
Build an ecosystem - Nilpena
Gamified construct of an eco-system of the first multicellular animals
ASU - Habitable Worlds / Bio Beyond
Emergence of Animals - Nilpena
Five-part 360° interactive experience exploring the first multicellular animals
ASU, MIT, Univ. New S. Wales, Aust Center for Astrobiology
End of an era: Dinosaur extinction at Hell Creek - Time Travelers Guide
360° educational virtual field trip experience with adaptable feedback
ASU, Bio Beyond
First signatures of life: North Pole/Dresser - Time Travelers Guide
360° educational virtual field trip experience with adaptable feedback
ASU, Bio Beyond
Red Rocks
Comparing Mars, Dales Gorge-Australia, and Sedona-AZ
360° educational virtual field trip experience with adaptable feedback
ASU
Examining the Meteor Vault at ASU
360° virtual field trip
ASU
Blacktail Canyon
Exploring The Great Unconformity of the Grand Canyon
360° educational virtual field trip experience with adaptable feedback
ASU
Sustainability of Yosemite National Park
360° gamified educational virtual field trip experience with adaptable feedback
ASU, Wells Fargo
Virtual Field Trips on a Solar Spell
Integration of VFT’s in an offline raspberry pie technology void of electricity and internet
ASU, SolarSpell team
Google Cardboard VR experiences
Creation of multiple global VR sites
ASU
Exploring the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary
Virtual field trip experience
ASU, Bremen Univ., Coldigioco school of Italy,
Croatian Geological Survey, Univ of Zaragoza, Spain
Hāpaialiʻi, Keʻekū and Kapuanoni Heiau, Hawaii
360° educational virtual field trip experience with adaptable feedback
ASU, Kamehameha Schools, Hawaii
NanoLab Fabrication VR Tour
VR tour of Nano lab
ASU, ASU Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Grand Canyon, Geologic Layers in Time
360° educational virtual field trip experience with adaptable feedback
ASU, Univ. NM, New Mexico Tech
Early Civilizations of Teotihuacan
Six-part 360° educational virtual field trip experience with adaptable feedback
ASU
Bio-Archeology
Twelve-part interactive experience of human evolution
ASU, ASU School of Human Evolution and Social Change
Signatures of Life at Marble Bar
360° virtual field trip
ASU, MIT, Univ. New S. Wales, Aust Center for Astrobiology
The Flinders Ranges of South Australia
The oldest multicellular organisms
360° immersive educational environment
ASU, MIT, Univ. New S. Wales, Aust Center for Astrobiology
Biodiversity in the Panama Rain-forest
360° immersive educational environment
ASU, ASU School of Life Sciences
Living Microorganisms
The stromatolites of Shark Bay Australia
360° immersive educational environment
ASU, MIT, Univ. New S. Wales, Aust Center for Astrobiology
The Formation of Upheaval Dome
Three-part experience exploring possible impact craters
360° immersive educational environment
ASU
The First Reef Building Animals
360° immersive educational environment
ASU, MIT, Univ. New S. Wales, Aust Center for Astrobiology
Layers in Time, the Golden Spike of the Ediacaran
360° immersive educational environment
ASU, MIT, Univ. New S. Wales, Aust Center for Astrobiology
The First Burrowing Animals
360° immersive educational environment
ASU, MIT, Univ. New S. Wales, Aust Center for Astrobiology
Ancient Records of Life on Earth
360° immersive educational environment
ASU, MIT, Univ. New S. Wales, Aust Center for Astrobiology
Space Adventure
Interactive Multi-user / Multi-system virtual game environment
WowzVille
Fairyland
Interactive Multi-user / Multi-system virtual game environment
WowzVille
Crime Division
Interactive Multi-user / Multi-system virtual game environment
WowzVille
Racing Room
Interactive Multi-user / Multi-system virtual game environment paired with PlayStation
WowzVille
Exploring the Pilbara, the Atacama Desert, Lassen Volcano, and Rio Tinto in a Virtual Field Trip
360° immersive educational environment
NASA
Spaceward Bound
Educational virtual exploration project
Atacama Desert Chile
NASA
What’s the Difference?
Educational software comparison authoring application
NASA
Moon Math
Pre-Algebra educational math-based learning comparison application.
NASA
Solar System Explorer
Educational compare and contrast software simulator
NASA
Edgarville
Multi-display interactive immersive virtual airport environment and exhibit
Smithsonian Air and Space Museum
Rockefeller Plaza
NASA Headquarters
NASA, FAA
Journey to the Planets
Interactive/immersive multi-screen virtual environment
The Tech Museum of Innovation
Planet Trek
Interactive/immersive multi-screen virtual environment
Chabot Space and Science Center
NASA Quest website
One of NASA's top ten visited websites
20,000 pages, database integration, 2 search engines, interactive and streaming media, live webcasts and chats
NASA
AstroVenture
Interactive educational module web-based simulation
NASA
GATE to GATE
Interactive experience
Kiosk and CD - worldwide dissemination within major airlines & airports
NASA, FAA
Lunar Prospector Simulation
Interactive experience
CD, kiosk, internet component
NASA
Mars Virtual Exploration
Interactive experience
Nationwide disseminated CD
NASA
Mars Virtual Landing Sites
Website
NASA
NASA Information Technology
Website
NASA
NASA and the Smithsonian
Website
NASA
Classified (Title) CD
Interactive gamified experience
CADRE Institute
V-chat
Peer to peer interactive visual chat client
CADRE Institute
V-mail
Video mail client
CADRE Institute
Virtual Tour of Egypt
Interactive 360° VR experience of the tombs of Egypt
CADRE Institute
History of Transportation
Interactive 360° VR experience
CADRE Institute
Mortal Kombat CD
PC / Mac version
Threshold Entertainment, IMA Studios
MAG Innovision
Multimedia presentation using multiple linked displays
COMDEX trade show
Princeton Monitors
Multimedia presentation using multiple linked displays
C-Bit International trade show
IMA
Corporate Website
IMA Studios
AMS
Corporate Website
IMA Studios
Infant Heart Transplant CD
Loma Linda
IMA Studios
Princess Cruise Lines
Corporate Website
IMA Studios
Taylor Woodrow
Interactive networked homes digital experience
IMA Studios
Advanced Micro Devices
Interactive corporate recruiter digital experience
IMA Studios
Digital Inc.
Interactive corporate brochure and digital experience
IMA Studios
Rockwell Inc.
Electronic recruiting notebook
IMA Studios
Scor-Net Inc.
Private Offering interactive information digital experience
IMA Studios
Emerald Components Inc.
Interactive company profile and digital experience
IMA Studios
Travel Max Inc.
Interactive guide and digital experience
IMA Studios
Vantage Security Systems
Interactive guide and digital experience
IMA Studios