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• Created Headmaster, a launch title for Playstation VR
• Prototyped, pitched, and won full project funding from Sony in March 2015.
• Led production of Headmaster to completion in October 2016. Designed and built gameplay. Positive critical reception including several 9/10 ratings.
• Showed Headmaster with Sony at E3, SDComicCon, GDC, PAX, Game Informer, Champions League Final in Milan (2015) and Cardiff (2016),
• Experience with Sony PS4 and Playstation VR development infrastructure.
• Built and managed team that peaked at 7 developers across 3 time zones. Established process using Trello, JIRA, Slack, PlasticSCM, Google Docs, Dropbox.

Burlington, VT, US

Helping great kids figure out a crazy industry.

• Game Director on Skylanders Spyro’s Adventure for Nintendo 3DS (Metacritic 82)
• Game Director/Lead Designer on Skylanders Cloud Patrol for iOS/Android (3m+ downloads)
• Director on new IP over 8 month greenlight process. Went through qual/quant research withActivision. Pitched to Activision CEO and executives.
• Partnered with Lead Producer to review and prioritize work. Responsible for product quality and creative decisions.
• Built pitch and review materials to educate my audience before convincing or selling.
• Talked to Press at Gamescom, E3, SD Comic Con

Founder/CEO/Lead Designer and DeveloperCreated MrsRiley.com, a site for the Autism and special needs community that has in-browser tools for making picture cards. It saves work online and enables easy sharing and collaboration.- Developed the app with Flex and PHP- Co-developed and designed supporting site with Drupal- Support customers, respond to.

- Design and implement content pipelines- Solve difficult technical art issues- Work with engineers to solve problems- Mentor staffHighlights--------------Co-designed and implemented an open-city pipeline that scaled from PSP to PS2/Wii using procedural geometry, instancing, and texture streaming. Wrote tools for geometry subdivision, radiosity lighting.

San Mateo, California, US

Lead Character ArtistLead FX ArtistMoonlighting Technical ArtistHighlights--------------Co-created a full featured character customization system with both model and texture switching and intelligent object grouping. Also led a team of 2 other character artists and was responsible for concepts and production assets.Responsible for all gun-hit particle fx.