Vetted Design Professionals

“Lead Tech Artist/animation systems specialist with UE5 locomotion and VR experience, including a complex VR mech setup where player arm motion drove mech arms with intentional lag using IK and follow points. Has shipped experience across Meta Horizon VR (built Unity profiling tooling) and Call of Duty (animation performance fixes for runtime cinematics), plus a strong track record building artist-first pipelines like modular rig builders and an AI skinning framework.”

“Marketing/brand designer with ~4 years at Overtime Sports, creating high-polish brand identities and sales enablement creative. Built the full identity for the Overtime Lunchbox show (now 500k+ followers) and designed an interactive Ceros-based advertising site that helped generate partnerships and RFP responses, alongside scalable deck/template systems for high-volume sales pitching.”

“Senior graphic designer with e-commerce marketing experience at AVVA and Apt2B.com, focused on high-polish email and paid social creative. Leans into motion design—shooting and editing video and building animated GIF assets—to drive engagement and revenue, and is experienced producing high-volume sale/Black Friday creative efficiently using grid systems and brand-guideline guardrails.”

“Game economy/progression designer who owned an end-to-end multi-currency economy for a top-down kitchen management sim, balancing cash/reputation/XP with sinks like spoilage, maintenance, and rent. Uses telemetry + structured playtests and spreadsheet simulations to tune pacing, reduce mid-game churn, and prevent late-game inflation by adjusting efficiency/skill curves and phase-based balancing.”

“Modes/progression designer on EA College Football (Dynasty and Road to Glory) who has owned multiple shipped progression systems, including recruiting and Road to Glory progression (meters, in-game reward triggers, and a "coach trust" meta-progression). Focused on modular system design and tuning/balancing for player-facing challenges and rewards, with strong QA-driven iteration and Blueprint-based prototyping practices.”

“Marketing-focused visual designer/art director with portfolio work spanning a large-scale nonprofit fundraising campaign (Operation Smile), an automotive proposal campaign (Nissan) with static + motion concepts, and a corporate internal campaign (Millicom/Tigo). Builds scalable Figma design systems and modular video templates (Premiere/After Effects) to support high-volume output while maintaining strict brand consistency in fully remote, async collaboration.”

“Marketing designer focused on modern, high-polish creative across direct mail, responsive web, and lightweight social video. Builds scalable Figma design systems and modular template frameworks to support high-volume campaign output with bulk-edit efficiency and minimal quality drift, and collaborates closely with UA/growth and product partners in fully remote, async workflows (Slack/Figma/Loom).”

“Brand/marketing designer with experience modernizing a SaaS company’s identity (Hudson MX) and improving external perception through cohesive brand systems and asset libraries. Also supported American Express by building a scalable Figma component library to rapidly recreate UI screenshots with high fidelity using in-product access and Chrome DevTools for exact specs, and produced stakeholder interview videos for LinkedIn/Vimeo in Adobe Premiere.”

“Product/UX designer building an end-to-end startup MVP for small banks/credit unions to benchmark against regional competitors, including a custom design system and working prototypes created with Cursor/v0 and prompt engineering. Has experience translating complex finance analyst workflows into intuitive UX and running structured moderated usability tests with quantitative metrics; also led sensitive health research (20+ users) that shifted direction away from AI chatbot replacement.”

“Marketing designer with John Deere and Gear.com experience spanning high-polish campaign creative, web product-page image overhauls at scale, and multi-platform video editing in Premiere Pro. Drove international dealer adoption of campaign assets (notably Canada and France) and measures impact through clicks/downloads, while maintaining fast remote feedback loops across time zones.”

“Game economy/progression designer for PGA titles who owned equipment and attribute progression plus virtual currency sources/sinks end-to-end. Uses quantitative modeling and telemetry (wallet balances, spending ratios) to tune supply/pricing and hit segment-specific business targets (e.g., conversion and completion-rate goals), and aligns stakeholders via KPI-lift projections and tradeoff-driven presentations.”

“Gameplay/systems designer who owned the end-to-end gameplay redesign of Top Spin 4 (2011)—including player states, ball physics, shot resolution, attributes, and AI—with much of that work later reused in TopSpin 2K25 (2024). Deep experience balancing realism and responsiveness for competitive multiplayer/online play, using extensive playtesting plus telemetry analysis (Tableau) to tune timing windows and core mechanics.”

“UX/product designer in a medical laboratory B2B portal context who prototypes beyond Figma—built a GPT-based settings chatbot to address findability and low settings adoption, iterating through 11 tested versions with regression safeguards and structured prompts to mitigate instruction truncation/hallucinations. Also redesigned clinic order management by separating doctor vs assistant experiences and introducing step-based status views for a long, multi-stage lab order lifecycle; former full-stack engineer who improves design-to-dev handoffs via templates and readiness rituals.”

“Growth and creator/affiliate partnerships operator with Temu experience scaling gamified in-app referral/retention loops (Fishland, Lucky Flip). Built relationships with top, sometimes “black-hat,” affiliates via Discord/Reddit, extracted and systematized winning tactics through A/B/multivariate testing, then scaled them through paid channels. Also brings a personal creator network from a student-founded business plus Instagram/TikTok pages totaling 1M+ followers to ramp campaigns quickly and drive strong ROAS.”

“Senior/brand designer with portfolio work spanning fintech and AI SaaS, including leading the Daylight Grow launch for an LGBTQ+ audience across multiple channels (web, social, email, events, merch, OOH). Expanded Cleanlab’s Figma design system in close partnership with engineering and led visual QA to support fast, high-volume iteration without quality drift; also drove direct mail + landing page redesigns for Happy Money to improve acquisition performance.”

“Product/UX designer focused on AI governance and GRC, who led end-to-end design of IBM Watsonx.governance by unifying previously siloed products (OpenPages, OpenScale, Factsheets) into a role-based platform for proactive risk detection and audit-ready compliance. Combines deep field research with strong technical fluency (CS degree, SQL, API-aware collaboration) and has shipped award-winning work (iF Gold 2025) with market recognition (IDC MarketScape Leader).”

“Product/marketing designer with portfolio work spanning a nonprofit-focused mobile app concept (SecondLife) and a sustainability/human-connection rebrand of an e-commerce experience ("Amado" campaign). Experienced building scalable Figma design systems for high-volume output, producing modular templates for a local music venue’s concert graphics, and collaborating asynchronously with growth and creative leadership during an internship at The Bakery Atlanta (e.g., Atlanta Streets Alive).”

“Level designer/gameplay systems designer who shipped on Squid Game Unleashed, taking ownership of bot navigation and a dynamic bot-profile system to keep matches flowing and bots feeling human via telemetry-driven tuning (Tableau/heatmaps). Also built a lightweight minigame variant/rules framework to rapidly ship fresh live-service content with minimal engineering/art overhead, and has live-ops economy/event design experience from MyVegas Bingo.”

“Game designer with shipped multiplayer FPS experience on XDefiant, owning end-to-end mode design and tuning (Capture the Flag) and co-designing the Hardpoint spawn system across maps. Builds and iterates prototypes directly in Unreal Engine 5 using Blueprints, and has navigated real console/engine performance constraints and post-launch fixes while maintaining competitive integrity.”