Co-author of the bestselling Discworld tie-in Tiffany Aching's Guide to Being a Witch with Rhianna Pratchett. Author of the Knights and Bikes game tie-in novels featuring the characters and world created by Foamsword Games, the Alfie Bloom magical realism series published by Scholastic, and Rani Reports – a Times Children's book of the year written with Satish Shewhorak.As well as consulting for a number of games companies and conferences, I am working with production company Big Wee Hag, a subsidiary of Narrativia Ltd

Member of the organising committee and festival host - GameMaster.Involved in scheduling/programming, as well as hosting the live event.

Mentoring Masters students in their final major projects.

A series of books for the 8-12 market based around Alfie Bloom, a boy who inherits a castle full of wonders that has been sealed for centuries.Alfie Bloom and the Secrets of Hexbridge Castle, The Talisman Thief, and The Witch of Demon Rock have been translated into German, French, Polish, Turkish, Czech and Slovak, and adapted for the US market.

Lecturing and developing courses in a variety of aspects of games development, with a particular focus on gameplay and mechanics, narrative, interface design, and concept art/development. I also acted as Deputy Head allocating and timetabling staff whilst dealing with tasks and situations as they arose.

As festival director I coordinated the Animex team and managed the festival as a whole, in addition to programming and hosting Animex Game, our workshops series, and our children's Animexperience animation workshops and screening.In this role I set up a VIP screening event for children from disadvantaged areas to attend with their families to view animations they created in stop motion workshops, before being presented with certificate by Animation and Creative Directors from Disney Animation Studios.Animex is an inclusive, inspirational event which has been running at Teesside University since 2000. It takes the form of a week long festival of games and animation aimed predominantly at students, graduates and early career industry. The festival was designed a unique chance for the young audience to gain access to high profile industry professionals who provide behind the scenes insights into the latest projects of world leading games and animation studios.Consisting of a unique blend of talks, workshops, networking events, exhibitions and screenings, Animex promotes an ethos of collaboration and sharing, bringing the world of computer games and animation to audiences of any level of expertise, regardless of background and prior knowledge.

Organised, scheduled and hosted Animex Game since founding the event in 2003.Over the years, I grew Animex Game to a two day conference across two packed venues, each seating 300+. In addition, I founded a day long event for celebrating indie development, and a day of talks and panels from comics writers, artists and publishers.

Whilst at Pitbull I worked as a graphic artist on a range of titles including the Test Drive Series, Demolition Racer - No Exit and LA Rush.

for a while before and after leaving Teesside Uni I worked as a freelance concept artist/illustrator creating designs for a diverse range of clients including game development studios, comics and Norweigan cheese manufacturers!

Whilst studying at Teesside University I spent some time working as an artist at Acclaim Teesside during the Shadowman development phase.