Senior UX Researcher with 15+ years making XR, games, hardware, and mobile products more usable, engaging, and fun.
Most recently Research Lead for Meta’s Quest VR hero titles, including the award-winning Batman: Arkham Shadow and Marvel’s Deadpool VR. Before that: Meta AI Assistant, Destiny at Bungie, HBO Max, and Microsoft consumer products including Surface, Band, MSN apps, and Xbox games.
Deadpool VR changed the way Meta evaluated VR games in development with this UX Research and Data Science mashup.
A secret Microsoft team was beating Apple Watch to market with a smart fitness wearable, but with no UXR support. Not on my watch!
The VP needed to know which of the 7 MSN apps would be competitive on iOS and Android. Here’s how I stopped two from shipping.
What happens when you take a set of people who have never owned a tablet computer before and give them a new Surface 3 device?
Research Lead, Mixed Methods (2024 – 2026)
Iterative Usability and Playtesting (2023 – 2026)
Feature Prioritization and Design Incubator Research (2021 – 2022)
Horizontal Rapid Research Program (2019 – 2020)
UX Benchmarking and Prototype Usability Evaluation (2019)
Research Lead for PvE Content (2015 – 2018)
End-to-end Development UX Research (2011 – 2015)
Iterative Usability, Playtesting, Beta Programs (2009 – 2011)