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Austin, Texas, United States

Austin, Texas, United States

Optimized workflows, scheduling, and budgeting for audiobook production. Coordinated with external vendors, authors, publishers, and creative teams to ensure high-quality output and consistency in tone. Facilitated recording sessions, focusing on vocal performance and delivery.

Champaign, Illinois, United States

Gameplay Project Manager: Led multiple mission design Scrum teams, managing the backlog and sprint goals with a focus on maintaining quality. Made strategic decisions balancing resources, budget, and timelines while ensuring mission content met gameplay standards for A Song of Ice and Dust. Coordinated cross-functional efforts, prioritized bug fixes, conducted playtests, and stakeholder communications.Cinematics: Oversaw the cinematic pipeline from script ideation to final delivery. Coordinated with Environment Art, Props, Lighting, VFX, and Audio teams, managing budgets, schedules, and communication with external vendors such as Plastic Wax in Australia for mocap and animation outsourcing. Ensured all aspects aligned to create compelling and cohesive visual storytelling.Environment Art/Level Design: Directed efforts for a large EA and LD team in crafting an expansive open-world city, including two new districts for Saints Row V. Facilitated critical decision-making regarding both visual and technical aspects while maintaining oversight on optimization and memory management. Ran tech-focused check-in meetings to tackle ongoing tool, tech, and art-related challenges.Animation: Guided the animation pipeline, optimizing processes and workflows to integrate with the game’s mechanics and visual storytelling. Ensured collaboration with other teams, such as Cinematics and VFX, for cohesive outcomes as well as our external vendor Plastic Wax.Accessibility: Supported a new Accessibility initiative for Volition for Saints Row (2022). Worked with the Able Gamers organization to establish important and robust accessibility options.New Prototypes: Developed the first prototype for the next Red Faction game, working closely with key stakeholders to establish design direction and technological feasibility. Coordinated with cross-functional teams to create a compelling vision for the franchise’s future.

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Lead Producer for USPU (Jumptown 2.0, UI - Reputation, Physical/Local Inventory Support, Asset Manager mobiGlas App, Cargo System Refactor), SST (Quanta, Selling Items To Shops, Persistent Entity Streaming, RoboSuite, various Backend Services to make it all work), and Player Feedback Pipeline

Austin, Texas, United States

Lead Producer for Player & Developer Feedback Pipeline, laying groundwork for LIVE QA Team, maintained previous work with Design (Black Market Economy, Quantum Enforcement v1, Ship Rentals, Hijack Missions, Player Trading, Reputation V1 - Reputation and Org Service, UI - Reputation Updates) , Animation (Ship Commercials), Engineering (Asynchronous Disconnection Refactor, Server-side Object Container Streaming (SOCS)), and Audio for Austin.

Austin, Texas, United States

Optimized workflows for Austin audio, animation, and Design teams, scheduling, budgeting, and managing deadlines. Facilitated recording sessions.

Austin, Texas, United States

Helped establish best practices for Game Support, Hacked Accounts, and Trained the next wave of Game Support Agents

Austin, Texas, United States

Acted as Bug Moderator for Star Citizen, helping to triage and send player found bugs to QA.

Remote

Acted as volunteer Associate Producer for Interdiction Studios, helping to create concept art and organize their Trello and other volunteers.

Austin, Texas, United States

Tested and provided feedback for Bioware's Shadow Realms.

San Marcos, Texas, United States

Developed, recorded, and edited high-quality audio content for the station’s programming, including interstitial commercials and public service announcements (PSAs) for campus events like blood drives and community initiatives (e.g., readings for the blind).