Working with an unfairly talented team with massive aspirations and the sticktuidness to make them a reality.

Unlocking the potential of games in the classroom.Empowering teachers with information and skills to leverage games and popular culture, to engage students in 21st century learning.My first experiment with trying to start my own big thing. Really great learning experience, revealed a lot of my limitations (and a few of my strengths).👇 You can read a few words of reflection at the link below.

Wearing many hats, displaying & strengthening my resilience. My key achievements & responsibilities during my time with this early stage startup:* Guiding development of a web based platform for delivering SEL lessons into K-12 classrooms (from MVP to market entry).* Designing and developing game & pedagogical lesson content, for delivery via a web based platform.* User engagement, testing & account management.A great team, a product with much potential, and a really rewarding way to have been spending my time. A particular highlight has been the opportunity & necessity to leave my comfort zone and spend a lot more time face-to-face with our teachers, students and principals, and this experience has really opened my eyes to the value of community.

Producing world-class content with a talented team of developers and thought-leaders across ESL, Instructional Learning and Growth Mindset spaces. Empowering young learners to master English and develop oft overlooked Social and Emotional skills.Core responsibilities pertain to • developing and managing the pedagogical content pipeline, • ensuring content adheres to best practices vis-a-vis methodology, scaffolding, reward structure,• refining measurements and practices to rigorously determine efficacy of content, and• developing pipelines to make intelligent use of this efficacy feedback. My personal measure of success is how effectively we spark curiosity and creativity within our students. When students are curious, they are self-motivated. When students are creative, they seek out non-trivial solutions, opening themselves to more personal, rewarding and meaningful learning experiences.

Working remotely with Saudi Arabian studio Semaphore, on multiple projects.My personal goal is to empower the team to produce content to a world-class standard, to amplify a voice that is too often maligned or marginalised in the entertainment industry.

A train sim for everybody. I set out to make a game that was accessible and diverse, and the response since our soft-launch at PAX Australia indicates we've succeeded.Ostensibly it's an endless one-touch skill based physics game. In reality it's been an opportunity for me to introduce an auntie and a mother to their first positive gaming experience, give a father a platform to score high and make his son proud, and put smiles on the faces of young players not developed enough to understand complex gameplay. Available now on iOS in the Australian and New Zealand app store.http://stationstopgame.com/gethttps://www.facebook.com/StationStopGame

I joined IntoScience as the founding member of the game design team. Initially my core responsibilities included working in Unity to design and develop interactive content. I worked closely with the CTO and CEO to develop a long term vision for the product, meeting regularly to ensure the produced content was adhering to this vision. I developed best practices and instilled discipline where absent, and directed the code team on the creation of toolkit resources, to better facilitate content production.Over time the design team grew and I took on a lead design role, working to ensure the team continued to deliver high quality and pedagogically appropriate content.More recently as the size, ambitions and capability of the company have grown I have spearheaded development of IntoScience Quests, a step up in complexity from our existing core content. Responsibilities here have included developing initial requirements and creating accompanying high-level design documentation, liaising frequently with front and back-end code teams to ensure their proposed solutions adhere to these requirements. More active design work on this front has involved my working closely with science content writers, to develop game content that is both compelling and scientifically accurate.

During production of LA Noire I was responsible for the implementation, maintenance and gameplay design of On-Foot Chases. I created additional design documentation to ensure retention of my accrued knowledge, and liaised frequently with members of Rockstar studios in assisting their implementation, and to increase their understanding of the On-Foot Chase mechanic. Working within the Design and Production hierarchy, I was the designer directly responsible for multiple cases within LA Noire, including The Red Lipstick Murder, a case demonstrated to the press by Rockstar as an early representation of the quality of the game, also selected for showing at the Tribeca Film Festival.