Senior Front End Engineer,
UI & UX Designer, Game Artist
With 30+ years of experience building performant, scalable codebases. Specialized in TypeScript, React, Next.js, agentic engineering, and frontend optimization.
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FEATURED CASE STUDY • UI/UX • PRODUCT DESIGN • FIGMA • CASE STUDY
Edvisors Design Exploration
Designing financial products for students and parents is a balancing act between clarity and complexity. The financial aid landscape is filled with complex jargon, multi-tiered ...
Front End & Game Development
JobForm AutoFill: Developing a Custom Form Automation Browser Extension
CHROME EXTENSION • AI CODE • UI/UX • PRODUCTIVITY
Filling out job applications is one of the most repetitive and tedious aspects of a job search. While modern web browsers come equipped with built-in autofill features, they fre...
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Bubble Park (Beta)
ROBLOX • TYPESCRIPT • BLENDER • SOLID.JS
When my kids asked me to make a game with them, I knew I was in trouble. They're Roblox fanatics, and I'd never touched the platform. But after some initial tinkering with the e...
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Kite Screen
CHROME • EXTENSION • PICTURE-IN-PICTURE • HTML • CSS • JAVASCRIPT
For a brief moment, Netflix tested picture-in-picture on desktop. I was very fond of the feature and sad when it was gone shortly there after. That lead me to wonder how they pu...
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University of Hawaiʻi System Title IX and The Office of Institutional Equity
WORDPRESS • PHP • MYSQL • HTML • CSS • JAVASCRIPT
This was a culmination of work and proof positive that the parent WordPress theme I built for UH’s Office of Human Resources was truly reusable. A theme built in scope of re-use...
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University of Hawaiʻi® Office of Human Resources
WORDPRESS • PHP • MYSQL • HTML • CSS • JAVASCRIPT
There is no roadblock I don’t see as a challenge. This project is proof that I will go to any length to find a way over, under or around any problem so matter how much source I ...
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Superb.net
WORDPRESS • PHP • MYSQL • HTML • CSS • JAVASCRIPT
At Superb.net I wore both developer and project manager hats. I worked on updating aging pages, promotional campaigns, some design work and their live chat. I also completely re...
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Hopone.net
WORDPRESS • PHP • MYSQL • HTML • CSS • JAVASCRIPT
This was my first custom WordPress theme for a production site that featured anything other than custom styles and templates. It started out as simple UI update and became somet...
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Don’t Explode! by Joel Stransky
MAYA • UNITY • C# • PHOTOSHOP • ADMOB
Don't Explode is now available on the google play store
Read more → Announcing Don’t Explode!
MAYA • UNITY • C# • PHOTOSHOP • ADMOB
My website goes a long way towards demonstrating my various passions but what might not be so clear is just how desperately I want to work in the game industry. Being a military...
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Nook Color Kids Reader
ACTIONSCRIPT3 • JAVASCRIPT
When Barnes & Noble needed a whole new reading experience for children’s books they approached my previous employer, Automata Studios. Our modest team leader created a brilliant...
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The Living Glass Conversation
ACTIONSCRIPT3 • JAVASCRIPT
Owens Illinois commissioned Joshua Davis to direct an interactive experience promoting the use of recycled glass. Joshua collaborated with long time friend Branden Hall to devel...
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Cultureplayer.com
ADOBE FLASH • ILLUSTRATOR • ACTIONSCRIPT • PHP • MYSQL
Before we called them _"angel investors"_, threw around words like _"runway"_ or flocked to Y-Combinator I had nothing to disrupt. A friend of mine voiced how he'd like to be ab...
Read more →Product Design & Digital Art
Edvisors Design Exploration
UI/UX • PRODUCT DESIGN • FIGMA • CASE STUDY
Designing financial products for students and parents is a balancing act between clarity and complexity. The financial aid landscape is filled with complex jargon, multi-tiered ...
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Military Intelligence Instructor Badge
ILLUSTRATOR • DESIGN
The military is full of instructors, most are not enlisted but they have a ranking system. Reaching master level is a high achievement. I was tapped for the redesign and it's on...
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The Endless Mural
ILLUSTRATOR
The various brush shapes used in this project were supplied by a list of artists including Joshua Davis. The brushes all started as vector images and Microsoft supplied us with ...
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Military Adaptive Sports Program
ILLUSTRATOR
I needed to add some modern design pieces to my portfolio and this great organization needed some help with their own promotion. It was a perfect match and a great way to give b...
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What Steve Jobs meant to me
STEVE JOBS • THOUGHTS
I’m probably the least productive blogger in the tech world but a major figure in my life has died and its worth explaining why this one means more than others.
Read more → The Early Years 1995 - 2004
ILLUSTRATOR • PHOTOSHOP • ILLUSTRATION • PRE-PRESS
My career started just out of high-school and I'm proud to say has been on a constant incline ever since. I'm exponentially more talentaned than I was back then but few experien...
Read more →3D Character & Prop Art
Game Resolution Bust
Z-BRUSH • MAYA • PHOTOSHOP • X-NORMAL
This is the 2nd of 3 portfolio assignments that will finish off my game art degree. I created this from scratch based on a concept painting I found on deviant art courtesy of Ze...
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MiO bottle product shot
Z-BRUSH • MAYA • PHOTOSHOP • X-NORMAL
I needed some hard surface modeling practice and got really excited about after seeing some killer stuff by some peers. So why not choose something I’m also a big fan of. Thanks...
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Lip Sync Animation Test
Z-BRUSH • MAYA • PHOTOSHOP • X-NORMAL
This is a lip syncing project I did for school. I found it fascinating that the process of laying out key frames is as much an acting performance as it is technical know how.
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The Griffon
Z-BRUSH • MAYA • PHOTOSHOP • X-NORMAL
This is the last project I did for school. The concept is courtesy of Gary Shuko. I sculpted, retopologized, UV’d and painted this from scratch.
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