Virtual Reality Designer

Virtual Reality Designer — Vanguard Spatial Studios

Seattle, WA | June 2023 – Present

• Architected a customized VR interaction system using Unity and C#, which reduced user onboarding time by 32% and increased first-session retention by 15% across 2 major enterprise training applications.
• Designed and optimized 3D spatial user interfaces in Unreal Engine for an immersive educational game, cutting engine frame rendering time by 18% and ensuring a consistent 90 FPS on standalone headsets.
• Collaborated with 4 graphics engineers to develop a vertex-shader solution in Blender for real-time lighting, reducing GPU memory overhead by 22% across 6 complex environment assets.
• Conducted usability studies with 45 unique testers to identify interaction friction points in spatial locomotion, redesigning teleportation mechanics to decrease user motion discomfort by 40%.

Associate Virtual Reality Designer — Nebula Game Studios

Austin, TX | August 2020 – May 2023

• Developed interactive 3D UI layouts and controller-mapping configurations in Unity for a cross-platform VR game, increasing player satisfaction ratings by 24% over a 6-month period.
• Created low-fidelity VR graybox environments and spatial layouts using Tilt Brush and Blender, accelerating early-stage pre-production prototyping cycles by 15 days.
• Programmed interactive trigger events and physics-based hand interactions in C# scripting, reducing system bug counts by 35% during the final 3 months of the QA phase.
• Refined 25 environmental assets and texture resolutions to match mobile-VR optimization budgets, saving 400MB of build size and improving app launch performance by 12%.

Spatial user interface design, VR/AR interaction frameworks, 3D grayboxing, Asset optimization, Rapid prototyping, Usability testing, Unity, Unreal Engine, Blender, Autodesk Maya, C#, Git, WebXR

Medical VR Training Simulation

Role: Lead Spatial Designer

Tools: Unity, C#, HTC Vive Pro, Blender

Designed a high-fidelity surgical simulation that reduced trainee execution error rates by 34% across 8 healthcare partner institutions.

Immersive Spatial Navigation System

Role: XR Interaction Designer

Tools: Unreal Engine 5, Blueprints, Meta Quest 3

Created an open-source gaze-and-gesture navigation asset, decreasing menu latency by 45% and gaining integration in 12 independent VR projects.

• Unity Certified Professional: Programmer (2022)
• Epic Games Unreal Engine Associate Certification (2021)
• Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF) Certified UX Designer (2020)

• Languages: English (Native), Spanish (Conversational)
• Volunteer Work: Mentor for regional high school game development workshops (2022 – Present)
• Availability: 2 weeks notice