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Santa Monica, Ca, Us

Woodland Hills, Ca, Us

Senior Producer (UI) on Call of Duty.

Private, Ma, Us

Tricky Fast Studios is a for hire with a focus on engineering, the Unity engine, mobile products and tools development. In addition to a powerful staff of engineers, Tricky Fast also offers production support, art, and game and UI design. Tricky Fast is entirely remote based. At Tricky Fast, my responsibilities included internal and external project management, setting up Scrum processes and remote best practices,hiring and HR, client relations, UI and game design, writing up pitches and proposals, sound design and composition. I was known for bringing together teams and executing on tight timetables and budgets, delivering above and beyond customer expectations. Some of standout projects at Tricky Fast were GSN's Wheel of Fortune (project management), management of GSNs central tech team for one year, Story Arc Media's Poptropica (project management), Twitch's Karaoke (project magement and design support), our own Unity toolset CAT and it's demo levels (project management, game design, and sound design), and a partnership Blockchain game called Treat Fighter (project management, game and UI design, sound design and composition), Marvel Avengers Puzzle Quest and Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. .

concept to ship on the iOS title, Dotra, as designer and producer for Eternal Wonder Studios.

Worked with a very small team to create Fart Cat for iPhone/iPad. Concentrated on making the experience overall FUN, without getting mired in complex mechanics. Created original sound assets using classic foley techniques, such as punching sofa cushions!

Providence, Ri, Us

Project Copernicus Led a team of 10 designers and one UI artist. Conducted monthly one on one meetings to facilitate career growth for my reports. Successfully brought several employees to meet their career goals. Oversaw the design and production of all gameplay related systems for a traditional AAA MMO. Including Character Progression, Player Classes, Itemization, Tradeskills, Combat, AI and NPC design. Most of these systems were brought to an Alpha state and were implemented in such a way that they could be reused to create new features or even games with little code support. Worked with Senior Management and Production to strategize and prioritize the scheduling of feature development. Took over the design and development of the User Interface. Aside from design, I led the effort to find a new and more fitting art style and served as de facto lead for the UI engineers as well. This included leading the team to completely dismantling and then rebuilding our UI system, resulting in a greatly accelerated development process for UI features. Served as a moment to moment resource for both designers and engineers as paper designs were developed and in-game features were implemented. Conducted hiring for Systems and UI design. This brought the team from 4 designers, including myself, to the final count of 10 designers plus one artist and myself as lead. Triaged bugs on a regular basis. Working with Production and leadership peers, we kept our unassigned bug list to zero on a nearly daily basis. Reviewed Animations, Audio, VFX, Player Classes, Game Balance, Levels and core game systems to ensure quality and completeness. Designed and tuned core Player Interactions: Camera, Movement, Targeting, and Player Input.

Providence, Ri, Us

Worked with design leadership to establish core feature set and game vision. Created original concepts and designs for gameplay systems including Player Progression systems, Combat, Player Classes, Housing, Interface features, Social Systems and Authoring Tools. Maintained and created models in Excel for Character Statistics and Game Balance. Implemented our first prototypes of Combat and Character Statistics. First in Unreal Script and later in Python. Lead a team of cross discipline developers to implement initial gameplay systems. Worked with Engineering to implement proprietary data authoring tools for Game Balance and Character Creation. Established and maintained game balance paradigms.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Command and Conquer III (PC and 360)Designed and implemented four levels for the PC title to an Alpha state. Refined controls and interface from previous console RTS product. Bug fixing on all game levels for console SKU. Designed and implemented a complex and innovative tutorial specifically for the console SKU. Participated in the high level design and concepts for future RTS products. Game Designer - Battle for Middle Earth II (360)Collaborated on the design of a console based RTS Control Scheme and User Interface. Re-constructed game levels to fit within memory budget. Conducted bug fixing on all game levels on the console SKU. Designed and implemented five unique Multiplayer modes. Designed game Shell flow and Menu systems. Created detailed test plans for QA. Designed player Achievements. Shipped the first truly playable and enjoyable RTS on a console.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Various TitlesResponsibilities Created detailed test plans, based on design documentation, to be utilized by the rest of the QA staff. Conducted ad hoc and test plan focused testing. Acted as a liaison between the QA and Audio teams. Met with the design team regularly to provide gameplay feedback.