Vetted Design Professionals

NICOLAS ROCHA

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Senior Technical Artist specializing in Unity game animation pipelines

São Paulo, Brazil7y exp

“Tech artist/VFX specialist who shipped Unity effects for mobile games including Card Guardians (cards, enemies, heroes across world space and UI canvas). Demonstrates strong real-time optimization skills—profiling GPU/CPU/overdraw, targeting 60 FPS on mid-range devices, using pooling, texture atlases, and a reusable RGB-mask recolor shader to create many enemy/element variations without blowing memory budgets.”

“Senior Designer at DCI with high-profile client experience (Verizon, DoorDash, BlackRock), specializing in high-polish brand and marketing design. Has led creative direction for major editorial/report work (Verizon DEIB Annual Report) and a 100% creative statewide rebrand pitch for OERB supporting a $4M legislative/stakeholder effort, and builds scalable Figma design systems for high-volume output.”

“Game VFX artist with shipped effects for major entertainment racing and platformer titles (Nickelodeon, Dreamworks, Hot Wheels, Disney) across mobile/web and multi-platform releases. Describes a full production workflow from GDD-driven planning and Photoshop concepts through Unity/Unreal shader + particle setup, code implementation, and testing, with a strong focus on real-time optimization (including Switch constraints) and AI-assisted concept/texture workflows.”

“UX/Product Designer with end-to-end case-study experience on Verizon personalization, combining deep user research with iterative prototyping to address privacy/data-tracking trust issues and drive measurable conversion impact (estimated 0.5% lift; ~$750K annual revenue). Also designed a Work Safety Management System at Inova Solutions, simplifying complex real-time alerting, compliance, and role-based permission workflows using motion prototypes and progressive disclosure, and collaborates closely with engineers with working HTML/CSS/JavaScript knowledge.”

“Marketing/concert-event creative designer who leads end-to-end production of cohesive campaign looks (key art, sponsor-integrated assets, and animated promo pieces). Works fully remotely and collaborates closely with sponsors plus Sales/Concerts teams to iterate quickly while keeping work on-brand, and scales output via master files/templates across many deliverable sizes.”

“Game designer/technical designer with hands-on Unreal Engine 5 Blueprint implementation, specializing in horde/wave modes, spawn systems, and live-service progression/economy. Shipped a limited-time Horde Event Mode under a ~6-week constraint by reusing existing content and focusing on systemic tuning (pacing, spawn budgeting, difficulty curves), reporting improved engagement/retention and reduced early drop-off.”

“Senior product designer focused on high-polish growth/marketing creative across social and web, citing work on "Red Bean" (social app promotion) and "House to Home" (website + AI feature/shipping launch). Emphasizes scalable systems—Figma foundations/tokens + auto-layout components and modular CapCut templates—to produce high-volume, multi-format assets quickly while maintaining brand consistency and clarity.”

“Game designer with shipped live-event hub/minigame experience (Club Blox) integrating economy/UGC, UI timing, and playtest-driven clarity improvements; successfully navigated a major client pivot by reusing assets and restructuring gameflow to ship on time. Also has level design experience on Plants vs. Zombies 3 (Lava Biome/hybrid mechanics) and rapidly prototypes accessible gameplay systems in Unreal Engine 5 using Blueprints.”

Kaden Marler

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Junior Game/System Designer specializing in Unreal Engine gameplay systems and UI

3y exp

“Game designer/developer building systems-heavy gameplay in Unreal Engine 5 using Blueprints, including an RPG narrative/quest framework (dialogue + quest segmentation, HUD/logbook) and an in-progress FPS with ammo and perk-driven playstyles (e.g., tech hacking routes). Demonstrates strong playtest-driven iteration, including major narrative restructuring for clarity and cutting an inventory system after repeated negative feedback.”

Kalia Joseph

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Junior UX/UI Designer specializing in product MVPs and usability testing

Tampa, Florida2y exp

“Product/UX designer with experience designing creator-facing web platforms, including Anthem Nation OS—an AI-assisted music content syndication system—where they turned complex automation into guided onboarding, channel connection, and campaign setup flows. Also redesigning a governance/training website (INoSC/GovernanceAlive) to make dense multi-stakeholder curriculum content navigable and scannable, using iterative prototyping in Figma/Framer with motion via Lottie.”