We're hiring! Co-founder of a new Oculus Game Studio called Ouro Interactive. We're a small but world-class team creating best-in-class games for the Meta Quest platform. We work closely with leadership across Meta to build games that showcase the capabilities of our hardware and platforms and bring joy to our players. Check out our first game, Super Rumble, only on Quest 2 in Meta Horizon Worlds.

Leading Creative Direction and supporting Game & Product Design teams on the Horizon Metaverse Project @ Meta. Horizon is an ever-expanding metaverse to explore, play and create. Defy distance, discover extraordinary experiences, explore communities and be a creator and bring your vision to life. We are the creation engine that powers UGC experiences in the Metaverse, and our mission is to unlock the world’s creators by democratizing access to creation.

Building, scaling, and leading teams in a mission to create experiences that bring people closer together across all realities (mobile, AR, and VR). Humbled everyday by the talented teams I get to work with.We recently announced some of the products we're working on, including:- Facebook Horizon- Facebook Assistant - Oculus TV - Oculus Media Studio- Venues- Quill- Quest 2 Social Platform

Leading teams in the creation of the vision, strategy, and development of first generation mixed reality experiences. • Led cross-discipline teams in an incubator process that created 30 playable prototypes in 6 months across games, social, productivity, and education verticals.• Led a team that created 2 playable prototypes that helped secure $502 million in a Series D funding round.• Led a user research team that conducted end-to-end tests to iterate on product experiences.• Represented Magic Leap in the on-boarding of AAA development studios to help bootstrap their development efforts in mixed reality.• Led a design team that explored, iterated, refined then distilled design lessons in mixed reality into a Mixed Reality Design Best Practices Handbook.

Building and leading development teams creating innovative, compelling, and fun mixed reality experiences that could not exist on any other platform.

Built and led development teams focused on building new systems and features for the award-winning PC game "League of Legends." • Created the strategy and vision for product teams on League of Legends.• Implemented Agile / Scrum for all development teams.• Created roadmaps that were executed successfully for ~50 feature releases in 2 years.• Presented reports and status to C-level executives.• Collaborated with Publishing and eCommerce to create marketing campaigns and launch plans.• Created HR/Talent initiatives that improved company culture, efficiency, and diversity.• Built teams from scratch in the LA office.• Collaborated with academic researchers around the world on original scientific research that was published in the fields of social & cognitive psychology, economics, neuroscience, and collective intelligence.Articles, Press Releases & Talks:• The Verge | How League of Legends can make the internet a better place.( http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/6/8161955/league-of-legends-online-happy-place) • Wired | Curbing online abuse isn’t impossible. Here’s where we start.( http://www.wired.com/2014/05/fighting-online-harassment/ )• GamesIndustry.biz | Riot Games’ Lead Game Designer of Social Systems.( http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-05-15-talking-shop-riot-games-lead-designer-of-social-systems )

Lead Game Designer and stakeholder of "Social Play," "Player Behavior," and "Metagame Systems" teams.• Led the teams that designed and implemented Ranked Ladder Systems, Player Behavior Systems, Economy and Reward Systems, Progression Systems, Matchmaking Systems, Co-op Play Systems and Onboarding Systems for the award-winning League of Legends. • Managed and led teams of Game, Systems, Social, UX, and Visual Designers. • Managed and led teams of User Researchers, Data Scientists, and Data Analysts.• Designed User Research Studies that optimized the user experience.• Collaborated with labs on original scientific research published in peer-reviewed journals.• Used the latest in machine learning and deep learning to optimize in-game systems and features.

Leading initiatives to ensure League of Legends has the most sportsmanlike community in online games.• Created Design Documents for Ranked Ladder Systems, Player Behavior Systems, Economy and Reward Systems, Progression Systems, Matchmaking Systems, Cooperative Play Systems and Onboarding Systems.

Worked closely with Mike Ambinder on experiments in Left 4 Dead 2, Alien Swarm, Half-Life 2 and DOTA 2. Our goal was to conduct research that made games more fun.• Collaborated on a project that created a new AI for Left 4 Dead 2 that was driven by biofeedback signals from the player.

• Designed, programmed, and implemented experiments investigating how visual perception is represented in the brain. • Lead inventor on a team that developed a novel psychological method for digital advertising.Press Releases:• Time Magazine’s Health & Science Blog ( http://tinyurl.com/ydv7owv )• Public Library of Science Feature Synopsis ( http://tinyurl.com/ykkwzb5 )• University of Washington Press Release ( http://tinyurl.com/6etzegu )• Science Editorial (2009), Volume 324, Page 1625.• Scientific American ( http://tinyurl.com/nsooxv )

Research Assistant for Dr. James T. Enns' Vision Lab.