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Los Angeles, California, United States

Los Angeles, California, United States

Responsible for people management and ensuring the design execution matched the Game Director’s vision. As part of the Palia leadership team, pushed for positive cultural changes to better support employees.- Managed senior+ designers, contributing to their professional growth through regular check-ins and collaborative professional development plans- Served as a conduit of communication both within design and with other disciplines, imparting information, providing context, and managing expectations- Filled design gaps as necessary at the studio--> Product | Design Lead spinning up a new Gameplay Team of Teams with additional Leads--> Systems designer for the Game Events team executing on the Maji Market: Luna New Year Event- Pivoted design direction and strategy to account for reduced headcount and resources- Drove initiatives to improve soft skills across the studio, including updating interview panels and creating educational resources for giving / receiving feedback- First time speaker at GDC 2024: "It Takes a Village: Cultivating Social Coziness in 'Palia'"

Los Angeles, California, United States

Similar role as previous title, but at a larger scope:- Facilitated growth and scaling into a team of teams through hiring and/or soft skills assessments- Built and maintained the roadmap of features and tech debt across two teams with the Producer and Tech Lead- Led the team(s) from production through open beta, juggling game and tech scaling priorities throughout- Managed and guided metagames systems designers through priorities and stakeholder management, contributing design documentation as needed - Collaborated with individual team's leads to maintain health and productivity of all teams’ members

Vision Leader for the Social Pillars of Palia, collaborating with the Community Team on building out the community of practice for healthy player dynamics. Product & Design Lead for a team focused on Social Systems as well as Backend Platform Technology.- Built and maintained the roadmap of features and tech debt with the Producer and Tech Lead- Led the team from early production into full production, juggling feature and tech priorities for playtests- Designed and documented social and expression systems and their MVP states and future milestones (ex. Chat, Friendship, Character Customization, Requests, etc.)- Executed first pass designs of any game or support systems not covered by Gameplay (ex. Options Menu, Accessibility Considerations, Player Support Tools, etc.)

Playa Vista, Ca

Bridged the gap between Design and Product disciplines as part of the Marvel Strike Force leadership team.- Organized and executed a dual discipline offsite focused on cross training and collaboration- Created rituals for Designers and Product Managers to collaborate with and educate each other- Managed designers and facilitated mediation when necessary- Designed, collaborated, and led execution on the clean release of a successful monetization feature

West Los Angeles, Ca

Meta-Game Systems Design - social features with a splash of game flowGameplay Systems Design - rescripted items to introduce functionality and improve overall techProduct Ownership - basic team and product management with global relationship building and League product support

Headed a small team of designers in designing and implementing powers for charactersWorked closely with engineers and artists to implement powersCollaborated with production team to improve powers implementation pipelineCommunicated with players through forums and live game to gather feedback for tuning purposes

Designed, documented, and tuned game featuresCreated and tracked art asset pipeline for the gameTracked metrics for live product

Designed, documented, and tested mini-gamesWorked with art team to import items into the gameWorked with production team to improve Agile experience for designers

Menlo Park, California, United States

Self-driven projects:- Coordinated a group of developers to create a small flash game- Started a brick & mortar store selling consigned hand-made goods

Handled outsourcing assets to art house in China.Reviewed and rated 3rd party game pitches with fellow EA internal employees.

Documented system and feature designsOwned the object creation pipelinePrototyped basic AI behaviorProvided Art and Engineering feedback

Documented design ideas from high level to detailed designsWorked with engineers to find and fix bugs

Documented UI DesignPlaytested build and provided feedbackTracked tasks for a small team of engineers

Masters, Entertainment Technology

Activities and Societies: Animateering - Pittsburgh's Children's Museum Exhibit Internship at EA - production and design

Bachelor'S, Computer Science, M. In Photography & Digital Imaging

Activities and Societies: Zeta Psi Sigma, Greek Council

High School Diploma, General Education