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I design and write for games and game-related IPs. I specialize in narrative-driven, scenario based games, like Descent: Legends of the Dark and The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth.

At Incredible Dream, I have designed scenarios for Kinfire Chronicles: Night's Fall (upcoming). I have also participated in worldbuilding and narrative review for the Kinfire Chronicles IP.

As a board game developer with Fantasy Flight Games, I worked to develop a variety of products at various stages of life, both expanding long-running lines and helping to refine and shape brand new games. I focused particularly on app-driven, scenario-based games.I was one of the scenario designers on Descent: Legends of the Dark, a critically-acclaimed narrative adventure game. On Descent I created memorable, unique situations and scenarios, helped develop and refine the campaign narrative, and made significant contributions to building the world and future narrative for subsequent Descent products. Several of my scenarios have proven to be among the game's most stand-out and memorable.As part of the development team on Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth, I wrote and designed numerous adventures in Unity for players to experience via the Journeys in Middle-earth companion app. In particular, I was the primary developer on the first downloadable campaign, The Hunt for the Ember Crown, which has earned a reputation for introducing novel and interesting mechanics into the game that push the boundaries of what the game could do. This also involved a significant amount of text writing for branching, choice-driven narrative content.I also helped develop several board-and-card games, including the Star Wars: Imperial Assault - Tyrants of Lothal expansion. I was the primary content developer on a few titles, including Heroes of Terrinoth, a cooperative dungeon-delving card game designed by Adam and Brady Sadler, and as designer on an unannounced game. Through all my work, I gained a reputation for creating interesting mechanics that helped to tell the games' stories, well-suited to FFG's brand of highly thematic products.When time allowed, I also made numerous small contributions to roleplaying game products, particularly in the Star Wars: Force & Destiny line.

As a contributor to Fanboy Comics, I write reviews and criticism for comic books and graphic novels across multiple genres.

As a product development intern, I contributed to the ongoing design, development, and playtesting of a variety of hobby game products across multiple genres.The majority of my time was on development of the upcoming Star Wars: Destiny, creating cards and refining game mechanics to capture a fun, fast play experience appropriate to the Star Wars license.I also contributed to playtesting and development on the Doom board game and the Descent companion app, Road to Legend.

As a software engineer in the Modeling, Simulation, and Gaming group at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, I contribute to the design, implementation, and documentation of serious gaming applications and other software.

Responsible for a variety of tasks, including sorting new inventory and filling online orders from existing inventory, at one of the largest retailers of Magic: the Gathering cards in the world.

As a graduate student in the Entertainment Technology program I have worked in numerous small groups with a variety of people from different backgrounds and skill sets, as a writer, designer, producer, and sound designer. The program focuses on building soft skills, such as teamwork, and on learning by doing.

Edited the English translation of Max Giovagnoli's book Transmedia Storytelling.

Created and maintained interface GUIs for multiple devices, with a focus on usability Performed a significant update to database documentation across a large, multi-resource system

Student employment position which involved assisting other UMW students to refine their skills in writing and organization, including a number of students for whom English was a second language.