Experience

Moonraft Innovation Labs

• India
• Design Services
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Design Lead

  • Feb 2020 - Present

  Aliso Viejo, California What a blast off to the moon! I was the first design lead hired in the US geography out of 150+ applicants (thanks for believing in me Nihal). My journey with the raft thus far... -Leads a diverse design team through workshops, innovative solutions, opportunity areas, design tenets, and provide points of view for the future of Fortune 500 clients -Championed and created 20+ design operations processes for a new and growing team; including scaling and review documentation… Show more What a blast off to the moon! I was the first design lead hired in the US geography out of 150+ applicants (thanks for believing in me Nihal). My journey with the raft thus far... -Leads a diverse design team through workshops, innovative solutions, opportunity areas, design tenets, and provide points of view for the future of Fortune 500 clients -Championed and created 20+ design operations processes for a new and growing team; including scaling and review documentation that shows growth/value to parent company -Led a supply chain client’s sustainability product from concept to development resulting in 100’s of merchants meeting their sustainability goals across the board -Established and led a design team for health care client modernizing 20+ applications specializing in data and tools for 35 sub sections of the parent company -Kicked off and led highest grossing project for health care vertical, Started with only myself and is now a 38+ team of developers and designers -Mentored jr. designers into associate to senior levels -Led countless workshops/projects with executive teams within health, cyber security, supply chain , among other verticals -Championed and created design operations processes for a new and growing team -Led Evolve sessions teaching research techniques, futuristic solutions, and intro to crypto Show less



ARE Corporation

• United States
• Engineering Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Experience Design Consultant

  • Nov 2018 - Jan 2020

  Irvine, California, United States -Led MVP design for new digital venture AREview adding value, visibility, and history to client’s bridge portfolios -Led design process and execution for desktop asset management application and mobile inspection app cutting average bridge inspection time by weeks per year -Translation and journey mapping for complicated bridge inspection journey resulting in reduction of time spent and valuable searchability for clients assets



The Four Design- A Creative Agency

• Design Services

• Founder | Creative Director

  • May 2013 - Jan 2020

  Orange County, California Area -Founded The Four Design agency -Branding design with belief that every client we worked with would gain a more personal brand, along with all the tools to tell a creative story through an Identity System (and provide a meaningful experience) -User Experience practice creating software for a range of industries in finance, large organization management, real estate, and asset management -Services offered: Identity Systems, Web & Mobile Application Product Design… Show more -Founded The Four Design agency -Branding design with belief that every client we worked with would gain a more personal brand, along with all the tools to tell a creative story through an Identity System (and provide a meaningful experience) -User Experience practice creating software for a range of industries in finance, large organization management, real estate, and asset management -Services offered: Identity Systems, Web & Mobile Application Product Design, Development, and Improvement (from initial concept to submitting to the App Store or Google Play Store),Digital Campaigns using all of our disciplines together including lead generation, email marketing/ nurturing, and driving traffic -Led design of an MVP for debt collection that put the user who was in debt first. Raised 1.75 million in funding -Was contracted at Opkix camera company. Managed a youtube content studio shooting concepts and videos with the likes of Nijah Houston & Skull Phone. Show less



Saddleback Church

• United States
• Religious Institutions
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Senior Designer

  • Jul 2017 - Sep 2019

  Lake Forest, California, United States -Designed events journey and interface within complex user permissions/roles, extremely private data, and multi-organization architecture (1000’s of campuses and ministries) -Created and managed 500+ component library in sketch -Led mobile app design for weekly meetups (thousands of groups worldwide) resulting in minimum 28% increase in attended events



Eventure

• Illustration & Visual Design

  • Oct 2014 - May 2016

  Irvine, California, United States -Management of creation of the 2000+ invitations and events initial card library which created a projected 5 million in revenue



VOLCOM

• United States
• Retail Apparel and Fashion
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Graphic Design Intern

  • May 2012 - Dec 2012

  Costa Mesa, California, United States -E-commerce internship working in pre-press for 300+ page vendor catalogs including photo retouching, resizing, and transformation for final catalog