Creative Lead for the Digital team at Exploding Kittens. Responsible for managing and overseeing creative direction on our live and upcoming games as well as maintaining product roadmaps, monitoring and analyzing key metrics, and shepherding games from prototype to production.

Creative Lead on Looney Tunes: World of Mayhem. Wrote initial designs for core game features. Created economic model concept and implementation. Managed a team of a half dozen designers working on the configuration, tuning, and balance of the game. Reviewed design specs and documentation. Supervised all content and characters added to their game and their role within the game's meta environment. Key stakeholder in roadmap and product level discussions and planning. Never once hit by a falling anvil.

Functioned as primary designer for a small startup team. Responsible for systems design, tuning, and economy on a synchronous, cooperative, mobile ARPG. Wrote specs, designed models, and provided automation to handle both small-scale testing and live-ops.

Design lead for core game mechanics on a mid-core hybrid RPG. Constructed a model for efficient generation of appropriate items and obstacles for all levels of play. Balanced skills, items, and character stats to create a long-term gaming experience. Helped the team through multiple iterations and refinements of the game's core concepts and vision.

Created mechanics and parameters for an unannounced multiplayer mobile title. Designed original set of units and factions to bring flavor to numbers. Responsible for ensuring balance and tuning parameters for all elements of gameplay. Work closely with developers and artists on prototypes, testing tools, and the early steps of creating a new world.

Responsible for feature design and implementation on multiple top free-to-play titles from prototype phase to post-launch. Provided direction for content designers on quests, levels, and other game content. Balanced the need for premium features and monetization with creating fun, engaging gameplay for all players. Implemented a user testing program along with the Creative Director of the company.

Primary content designer for the App Store's top grossing game of 2011. Wrote stories and quest content for the game's main narrative branch and short term events. Drafted design specs for new features including UI mockups. Worked with art providers to create assets and characters.