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Sammamish, Wa, Us

• Provide freelance writing and narrative service for gaming and entertainment.

Shanghai, China

• Revitalized the main story to mesh Western player fantasy, story plot points, game loop, economy, and special events, all via a remote writer’s room, over a 7-month timeframe. • Developed 40+ fantasy-driven character side quests from concept to final draft, delivering 12–25-page finished screenplays within 2-3 days.• Improved dozens of coworkers’ drafts with a 1-day turnaround for edits and notes.

Chișinău, Moldova

• Led and wrote as part of an agile team developing a high-quality interactive story app with immense branching narratives.• Designed the Story Design template and a spreadsheet for tracking dozens of variables across chapters.• Consistently wrote at a ~10,000 words per week pace on creative writing tasks.• Achieved a 94% score on user survey measuring entertainment value and player retention.

Espoo, Uusimaa, Finland

• Collaborated with an 8-person narrative team developing stories in the CrossFire universe aimed at an audience of ~6 million concurrent players. • Fostered team clarity, communication, and transparency via a public and evolving narrative wall.• Mapped out an MCU-like game progression over decades and potential film and television spin-offs to expand the Crossfire universe into Western markets.

Redmond, Wa

• Co-wrote extensive worldbuilding and lore wiki as the backbone of the $11 billion World of Tanks franchise and the driving force for future new media revenue streams.• Collaborated on video production shoots as a production assistant, as an endeavor to promote player attachment to the real-world history connected to the game.

Redmond, Washington, United States

• Collaborated with Square Enix Creative Director to write screenplay for Murdered: Soul Suspect.• Managed two writers and coordinated daily with the Narrative Designer and Cinematic Director to ensure continuity and a compelling gaming experience.• Designed Excel tools for visualizing the user experience and status of all dialogs, improving project effectiveness, transparency, and scheduling.• Primary narrative representative at all VO shoots, reinforcing directing decisions and facilitating rewrites.• Worked closely with cinematic directors to steer casting and cinematic editing to elicit audience emotion.

Redmond, Washington, United States

• Revamped the story outline to 50% of its original length, without sacrificing events or impact.• Focused on improving the severity of positive and negative story events to heighten player engagement.