The Apple and SAP partnership was born in 2016. Since then, I and a small team of UX and visual designers and developers have collaborated to design and code a software development kit that incorporates SAP Fiori design language with native iOS controls. This design language, Fiori for iOS, is created specifically to integrate clean and simple iOS design with the functionality and complexity needed for modern enterprise software. 

My role encompasses requirement sourcing, design creation, design iteration, guideline establishment, pixel perfect stencil production for our UI kit, specification development, and implementation testing for quality assurance. You can visit the Fiori for iOS guidelines here: https://experience.sap.com/fiori-design-ios/

This section highlights a mix of SAP internal and customer projects. First three screens are from the SAP Design website created to showcase projects designers are working on as well as the teams that make up SAP Design across the world. The fourth image is a redesign of SuccessFactors Employee Profile which was successfully implemented and released. The goal was to give the UI a modern, sophisticated appeal and functional responsive design while maintaining all of its key features. The set of three screens show part of a social help chat for internal SAP users who have questions on specific application functions. The chat appears as a window over an application, so users are able to view and ask questions without leaving their workflow.

Similar to my role within the Apple and SAP partnership, I am involved with each step of the project from requirement sourcing, design creation, design iteration and specification development. Throughout the development phase, I am involved with testing and providing feedback for quality assurance to ensure the final product perfect and ready to be released.

This collection of botanical illustrations was done for the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. Working closely with a botanist, each illustration was designed to accompany research text for publications. With botanical illustrations, it is essential that every element of the illustration be technically accurate and even the smallest variations in diagnostic characteristics included. All of the illustrations shown were drawn from herbaruim specimens, and in many cases with the help of a microscope.

These illustrations have been published in multiple volumes of The Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, and additional illustrations are awaiting official publication in various science journals.

Science illustration is a crucial component to research in all fields.  It is used to clarify multiple focal depths and overlapping layers, emphasize important details, and reconstruct broken specimens on paper — results unattainable through photography (from: https://gnsi.org/science-illustration). This type of work requires great attention to detail and informed observation in order to create an accurate representation of a specimen. My technical drawing skills were acquired during my graduate certificate program for Science Illustration.

Many of the pieces shown here are personal projects created in a variety of media including, Photoshop, watercolor & gouache paint and colored pencil drawn from a combination of live specimens and photographs.

Many of my landscape oil paintings were done in the 'plein air' style. Painting outdoors has a unique set of challenges. For one, wind and weather play a big part, and as time passes, shadows and lighting change throughout the day. 

Printmaking is a process. First, the image is carved in stages, and for each stage, a thin layer of ink is rolled onto the block, then the paper is meticulously aligned and both are cranked through a press together. Every color must be added as a layer over the previous color until the image is rich and complete. Both the type of wood used and paper can add 'accidental' texture and personality to a piece, but these elements are just part of the fun of working with natural materials.

All of these are original editions and created as single block reduction cuts printed on handmade Japanese papers.