Transportation Security Administration

As part of a curriculum development team under General Dynamics Information Technology, we acquired the TSA as a client in 2016, who we retained until 2025. My role was Senior Graphic and Media Designer, leading graphic and media design choices and supporting a team of Instructional Designers and Subject Matter Experts to develop quality and impactful curriculum and training materials for TSA employees.

My role was all-around media and graphic design. Let's highlight some of my best type of work.

Branding and visual cohesion. Many of our projects were multi-teamed, multi lesson courses. As such, we needed cohesive themes and graphic treatment across multiple digital media courses, powerpoints, and student materials. My role here was to lead these teams and provide visual and media oversight, ensuring graphic and visual cohesion across multiple teams and all materials was retained.

Animation and video production. One of the best ways to teach TSA students was through engaging animations and videos. For animation, I would create animated videos using animated characters, props and backgrounds, complete with audio narration and voice acting to create immersive and engaging explainer videos. For video production, we would coordinate with a video capture team to obtain photos, videos and audio and produce live-action videos to create training. This would occassionally include sending myself along with a team to on-site locations to capture media

3D modeling. I created many 3D models of TSA equipment such as scanners, explosive detection equipment, and other tools you often see TSA employees using while passing through any TSA airport checkpoint. These 3D models were used in training, such as creating interactive models so that TSA students could learn how to operate their equipment.

UI design. Many of the courses we developed were interactive digital courses. As such, I often created UI elements such as interactive buttons, menus, or other elements to help create engaging interactive digital learning courses that were utilized by TSA employees learning to perform essential functions of their job.

Graphic design. Handouts, printed materials, infographics, flowcharts, posters and much more. If it required graphic design, I did it.

Graphic design leadership. My team often turned to me for assistance with other matters in regards to workflow, graphic design input, ideas, brainstorming, and other media related matters. One major project I proudly worked on was a graphic media request ticketing system. Due to the remote-work nature of our team, and due to how many team members we had, it was essential for me to lead the creation of a system that allowed team members to submit graphic requests, detailing what they desired, deadlines, references, and other materials that helped create an efficient workflow between the design team and the graphic team.

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Note: The images and work samples on this page may or may not be work I did myself. Due to NDAs and Public Trust agreements, I am unable to provide exact samples of work from my time at the TSA. All images on this page are publicly available, sourced from either vendor sites or government sites. Some of the samples here do partially contain work I performed and just so happened to be posted on publicly available sites, and some are near-exact representations of work I did.