Charles Kantz

About Charles Kantz

Hello! I am a recent graduate of the Rithm School where I learned full-stack engineering. For the last seven years, I was a visual designer and art director for Silicon Valley companies like Intuitive Surgical and Nuro, where I led branding and user experience efforts.As a designer, I loved to solve visual problems. Over the years, I found myself wanting more than what design was providing. I realized what I loved about my work was solving the more technical challenges, as well as building and implementing designs. I admired developers who took my specs and brought them to life, and I realized that I wanted to explore doing just that.I got my chance to try development when employed at Nuro by creating a virtual reality prototype for an unreleased product. I learned C# on my own, developed the experience in Unity over three months, and loved every minute of the process. When it was complete, I felt proud and satisfied with my work, which solidified my theory that software engineering was the best path for me. I took this as a sign and attended Rithm School to pursue this new venture.I have spent most of my life in the Bay Area, aside from a few years in the suburbs of Portland. Besides immersing myself in development and design, you can find me enjoying sci-fi, photography, video games, baking bread, and the company of friends.

Experience

1. Senior Design Engineer

   OneSignal

   Sep 2022 — Present · San Mateo, CA, US

Education

• Diablo Valley College

  Music Theory and Composition

  2003 — 2006

• Rithm School

  Full stack Engineer, Software Engineering

  2020 — 2020

• Academy of Art University

  No Degree, Graphic Design

  2010 — 2012

Skills

• Adobe Creative Suite
• Video Editing
• Product Design
• Squarespace
• Custom Graphic Design
• Photography
• Typography
• C#
• Print
• Color Theory
• Cascading Style Sheets (Css)
• Collateral
• Pre-Press
• Aesthetics
• After Effects
• Art Direction
• Motion Graphics
• User Interface Design
• Photoshop
• Video
• Graphic Design
• Visual Communication
• Digital Printing
• Branding & Identity
• Illustrator
• Mac
• Web Design
• Print Production
• Branding
• Color Management
• Corporate Identity
• Html
• Art
• Logo Design
• Graphics
• Visual Design
• Indesign
• Unity3d
• Layout
• Sound Design