Eric Phy

Experience

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  Temple University - Temple Update

  Aug 2011 - Dec 2011

  Website Manager, Reporter, Editor

  • Collaborated with Temple Update's web development team.• Updated online multimedia and social media content.• Implemented real-time audio and visual effects.• Reported on several news stories.• Filmed and edited multiple student segments.• Performed variable production tasks involving script editing, videography, and talent prep.

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  Phy Global Technology Studio

  Jan 2012 - Jul 2012

  Graphic Designer, Animator, Host

  I was solely responsible for every task associated with the shows production.• Built in-home studio and post-production workstation.• Researched for and wrote scripts.• Created 2D and 3D animations.• Designed custom multimedia templates [After Effects/Photoshop workflow].• Developed and managed social media.• Designed and optimized online video, audio, and graphics.The show evolved over time, with new digital studio content being added weekly, and an animated co-host making brief appearances in some episodes. I experimented with various presentation styles, with inspiration coming from a number of popular television and online personalities. Show less

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  Affordable Laptop Services

  Jul 2012 - Apr 2013

  Web Designer, Technician

  • Designed and developed business website.• Designed marketing materials for print and web.• Created and managed AdWords campaign.• Managed Google Apps (now called G Suite) services.• Implemented online and onsite payment systems.• Provided customer support via phone, email, and in-person.• Managed customer feedback.• Completed hardware and software repairs with rapid turnaround.

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  Cellular Sales of Knoxville, Inc.

  May 2013 - Jun 2016

  Wireless Solutions Specialist, Mobile Expert

  • Accrued thousands of hours of hands-on mobile UX research.• Overcame accessibility challenges related to vision, dexterity, size, and learning disabilities.• Responsible for an online reputation and customer outreach program.• Instructed senior citizens with little or no computer experience on web and mobile technologies.• Researched individual, family, and business technology needs.• Relied upon by clients and colleagues for hardware and software expertise.

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  STRATZ LLC

  Nov 2016 - Feb 2024

  By 2019, the STRATZ team, product line, and user count were experiencing significant growth. I spent my Friday evenings writing and publishing development blogs on Medium, documenting the team's progress and introducing new features and products. I led the design and development of countless custom analytics and data visualization systems, coordinated various projects with outside partners, continued building out documentation both internally and publicly, wrote highly detailed specs for new features, helped design testing frameworks for our AI systems, and much more.• Led transition of all design resources from Sketch to Figma.• Designed and led the creation of a new design system and component libraries that supported hundreds of files in Figma, and millions of component instances.• Created and maintained an interconnected array of project management systems containing over 7000 issues, stories, and tickets.• Coordinated bi-weekly scrum sessions.• Designed a new project management framework.• Oversaw the development of a custom in-house system that combined AI-generated and community-contributed localization for dozens of languages.• Wrote an algorithm that outperformed an expensive, years-in-the-making, AI system for predicting Dota 2 match outcomes, then designed and led the development of a frontend that allowed users to both use the system and compete against bots to improve their drafting skills.• Led the design and development of private tools for several top professional esports teams.• Worked with stakeholders to ideate future business objectives and product direction.• Created and promoted content across various social media domains, especially Reddit.• Helped build servers by hand to upgrade our backend infrastructure.• Continued working with major esports partners like GGBet, BetBoom, and Perfect World.• Traveled and helped coordinate trips to large esports events around the world. Show less As time passed and the STRATZ product began to mature in a public-facing setting, I took on several additional responsibilities to fill gaps in our team's skillsets. We increasingly had need for custom art related to UI, promotions, swag, etc, so I led a recruitment effort to hire an experienced Visual Designer, who I onboarded and trained in our systems. We brought on 2 additional React developers, who didn't require SCSS/JSX templates for design handoffs, giving me more time to focus on design system development, custom analytics, documentation, project management, and projects with external teams.• Recruited and onboarded a new visual designer to continue defining the STRATZ brand.• Created comprehensive user documentation for a broad range of sophisticated analytics.• Continued introducing novel analytics and datatypes including: • Match handicap to determine relative difficulty for each player for every match. • Benchmarks of various parameters and scopes specific to players, heroes, ranks, and global specs.• Began collaborations with outside product and service teams, including the Twitch Dota 2 Tracker extension, Dota 2 Pro Tracker, and Liquipedia.• Designed a real-time draft analysis desktop application that used AI to predict several parameters associated with match outcome.• Began building a comprehensive project management system using Shortcut. Show less As STRATZ's first full-time employee, I worked directly under the founders, and initially focused on UI Design and Development for their Angular frontend. After rewriting the CSS from scratch and making the existing designs mobile-ready, the remaining founders immediately decided to pivot to a new React frontend, built from scratch with an entirely new UI. I worked under the direction of the co-founder/backend developer to design and write the SCSS/JSX, while working alongside a React developer who handled all non-UI frontend systems. Some of my work from this time includes the following:• Rewrote all CSS from existing frontend.• Successfully modified and adapted existing frontend to be mobile-ready with 3 week deadline.• Created new design system and component library from scratch in Sketch.• Handed off JSX/SCSS templates with documentation and designs for a new React frontend.• Began writing custom algorithms to measure player performance.• Created various novel analytics related to Dota 2, including a new ranking system that was later introduced into the game natively.• Began lightweight project management and documentation tasks for UI and analytics. Show less

  • Product Manager & Design Lead

    Feb 2019 - Feb 2024

  • Design Lead

    Nov 2017 - Feb 2019

  • Product Designer

    Nov 2016 - Nov 2017
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  Godot Engine

  Apr 2024 - now

  • Building Godot's first component library using Figma.• Leading design-specific project management with Github and Linear. • Experimented with Penpot as an option for Godot's new component library and design system.• Researched and tracked several Figma-alternatives in an attempt to find a viable option for Godot's design system.

  • Design Systems Lead

    Oct 2024 - now

  • Design Systems Researcher

    Apr 2024 - Oct 2024