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Lead Designer for a 14+ person cross-discipline team developing new combat mechanics and enemies while staying true to an established IP.Designed the skill tree built on the back of a morality system to empower multiple playstyles while reinforcing the core narrative themes.Wrote and maintained GDD for combat mechanics, enemies, economy, and in-game resources.

Designed and prototyped over 6 games exploring a multitude of cutting-edge Mixed Reality techniques on bleeding-edge hardware.Became the in-house expert on the MR hardware and onboarded new team members on design principles, hardware specifics, and coding language.Supported all assets (audio, animation, vfx) with implementation and customized workflows.Created a project-agnostic function library, including geometry intersection, polynomial, and regression functions.Maintained… Show more Designed and prototyped over 6 games exploring a multitude of cutting-edge Mixed Reality techniques on bleeding-edge hardware.Became the in-house expert on the MR hardware and onboarded new team members on design principles, hardware specifics, and coding language.Supported all assets (audio, animation, vfx) with implementation and customized workflows.Created a project-agnostic function library, including geometry intersection, polynomial, and regression functions.Maintained in-house audio solution, rewriting the implementation of our custom API and updating custom tool data formats to support new audio features.Created an innovative solution for throwing projectiles. Show less

Designed, prototyped, and implemented core gameplay (player moveset, special ball types, game modes, etc.) across five years of development.Designed and implemented all Achievements and Contracts (in-game challenges).Owned live-ops gameplay design and development of 9 week dev cycles.Designed the audio system to empower audio designers to have full control Over friendly, enemy, and self sounds.Designed the initial Matchmaking and Ranked systems to facilitate competitive matches… Show more Designed, prototyped, and implemented core gameplay (player moveset, special ball types, game modes, etc.) across five years of development.Designed and implemented all Achievements and Contracts (in-game challenges).Owned live-ops gameplay design and development of 9 week dev cycles.Designed the audio system to empower audio designers to have full control Over friendly, enemy, and self sounds.Designed the initial Matchmaking and Ranked systems to facilitate competitive matches through Bayesian skill approximation.Created rudimentary telemetry during early development to make data-informed decisions on match length and score limits. Show less