Conversational AI
Product design & Management
Account Management
Graphic Design & Branding
creative leadership & Art Direction
Game Development
video & audio production
Copywriting & Content Creation
bio
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With an advanced skillset spanning the conversational AI space, I have experience leveraging industry standard NLP tech and experimental machine learning tools to meet client needs.
AI technology requires high levels of stakeholder buy-in. From running ideation and training sessions, to day to day stakeholder management, project management and sprint planning and delivery, I have time and again shown a capability to bring the ephemeral down to ground level and ensure that AI solutions are explored and adopted without fear.
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I have experience managing small teams for client project delivery and balancing collaborative output through agile multi stakeholder workflows.
In terms of Conversational AI applications, I have worked on Chatbots (text chat, voice chat, phone bot), Digital Humans, and all-in-one app based experiences for various public and internally facing use-cases. I have end to end experience with these products and their systems, from designing and implementing the end-user experience, through to backend systems architecture, scoping, delivery, coding and utilisation of AI tools.
Beyond Conversational AI, I also have applied experience with leveraging Natural Language Generation in research spaces to understand how best to grow that tech into enterprise applications. I am also forever researching the ever growing AI tooling space, and have been studying RPA tools such as UiPath and BluePrism, to further my ability to leverage AI tools in concert.
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I’m always quick to learn and explore, developing strong lasting professional bonds and building functional effective teams.
Beyond professional life, I maintain a very diverse creative skillset, which I am always excited to leverage in all aspects of my life. -
Beyond my industry specific knowledge, I am a Writer, Game & Graphic Designer, Podcaster, Filmmaker, Entrepreneur, Speaker, and Content Creator.
I'm an engaged, driven lateral thinker, adept at seeing the high level connections between the disparate.
Sampling of Conversational AI Projects
Where to from here?
The People’s Club for Humans International
embrace the collective
As you may have noticed, this portfolio is housed within the site of PCH or The People’s Club for Humans, my shared creative projects & art collective.
Here myself and my creative collaborators work to bring our ideas to life in whatever form they might take.
Currently, my personal and shared projects workflow takes the form of 3 key projects, two of which you can check out on this site, and one that remains forthcoming:
KnifeGun and Frankenstein’s Booty are both being developed in collaboration with other PCH members.
N-ARC Cabinet
The N-Arc Arcade Cabinet is a bespoke, mid-century modern styled piece of high end gamer furniture.
Designed and built from the ground up by yours truly using only the finest products and materials available. The cabinet features a “cartridge” slot, where the player docks their Nintendo Switch game console to awaken the unit. One or two players can use the embedded arcade controls, inbuilt HD monitor, bassy onboard sound & Bluetooth stereo capability. Be it a loungeroom statement piece, or the piece de resistance of the man-cave, the N-Arc is the choice of the refined gamer.
With the fully dressed prototype completed and on display since early 2022, the design is being refined towards production of the master unit. From this master, all current orders will be fulfilled.
KnifeGun VR
The Meta Quest VR game KnifeGun is currently in production, leveraging fast paced 1v1 combat and interaction, we expect to be entertaining Quest & quest 2 owners and ourselves with movement from a demo to a fully fledged version 1.0 by end of 2022.
For this project I developed the core concept and lead initial proof of concept development prior to bringing more helping hands onboard. Now I oversee the delivery, art, overall gameplay iteration and design, as well as branding for the product.
Once version 1.0 is achieved, we will pursue final iteration and listing on the Meta Quest app store.
Frankenstein’s Booty
My third and final project is Frankenstein’s Booty, a board game where 4 players break into a a gothic mansion. Full of wonderous treasures, and terrible dangers, players must loot the house, outwit eachother, and outrun the monster!
My early initial concept has been exhaustively workshopped and play tested with the wider PCH team to bring the game to where it is now, a fully fledged board game ready for community testing to further balance and iterate on the rules. In the meantime I am currently overseeing art & design development to really sell the look, feel and tone of Frankenstein’s Booty.
The game balances the familiarity of a family board game with competitive deck building elements and an rules driven monster “AI” to elevate gameplay.
Longterm
Creative product development & design has increasingly shown itself to be my passion.
As my career and personal pursuits grow and continue, I see those skills grow and develop within myself and my day to day. But I have a keen love of the written word and how it takes shape within my Conversational AI work.
Longterm I intend to grow these in concert, and with an eye to how they share the potential to meld and grow together within the VR/AR development space, I will endeavor to find and operate on the forefront of the Conversational AI VR products space, be that gaming, training or the metaverse.
