VR Experience Designer

VR Experience Designer — Voxel Space Labs

Seattle, WA | January 2024 – Present

• Designed and prototyped 3 major VR training environments for enterprise clients using Unity and Figma, which reduced trainee error rates by 28% and accelerated training completion times by 22%.
• Led spatial UI redesign for a flagship consumer VR application, reducing user interaction onboarding friction by 35% and increasing first-month retention from 61% to 78%.
• Collaborated with 8 software developers to optimize 3D asset rendering pipeline in Unreal Engine, improving frame rates by 15% and maintaining a consistent 90 FPS performance target.
• Conducted 24 usability testing sessions in VR headsets, analyzing user spatial navigation paths to eliminate UI bottlenecks and decrease task abandonment rates by 19%.

AR/VR Interaction Designer — Pixel Horizon Studios

Seattle, WA | July 2020 – December 2023

• Created 40+ interactive VR prototypes using C# and Unity's XR Interaction Toolkit, which shortened the design-to-development handoff cycle by 18 days over 2 fiscal quarters.
• Developed a reusable library of 15 VR user interface components (menus, buttons, sliders), lowering interface design implementation time by 34% across 3 distinct projects.
• Partnered with 3 product managers to refine spatial sound and haptic feedback cues, improving interactive task completion accuracy by 25% for users with visual impairments.
• Optimized 3D asset imports and polygon counts for Oculus Quest deployment, reducing file size requirements by 42% and preventing thermal throttling on low-end hardware.

Spatial design, 3D user interface design, Spatial UI, Interaction design, Virtual reality prototyping, User experience research, Usability testing, Spatial ergonomics, Haptic feedback design, 3D asset optimization, Unity, Unreal Engine, Figma, Blender, C#, Git, Quest OS

Immersive Surgical Training Simulator

Role: Lead VR Designer

Tools: Unity, Figma, Blender, C#

Designed the spatial interaction model and UI for a medical training VR app, resulting in a 40% reduction in simulation setup time and a 96% user approval rating.

Social VR Hub Platform

Role: VR Experience Designer

Tools: Unreal Engine, Figma, Maya

Created spatial navigation and avatar customization menus, reducing navigation errors by 30% and supporting 15,000 active monthly users.

• Unity Certified User: VR Developer (2021)
• Google UX Design Professional Certificate (2020)

• Languages: English (Native), Japanese (Conversational)
• Volunteer Work: VR mentor for underrepresented high school students in STEM (2022-present)
• Availability: 2 weeks notice