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Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Austin, Texas, United States

Courses Taught - Intro to Game Design

• Shipped Title – Wayfinder
• Managed more than a dozen designers and owned several multi-disciplinary feature teams from concept to ship.
• Lead a team of designers to create more than a hundred quests and events built to work well in a multiplayer, randomly generated environment.
• Created system prototypes for random world generation, quest authoring, event creation, and other design utilities.

• Shipped Title - Darksiders Genesis
• Owned several main story missions along with their level design, encounters, puzzles, custom scripting, and cinematics.
• Expanded the hub world to include meta game progress, platforming challenges, and puzzles.(Promoted from Game Designer a few months into role)

Escondido, CA

• Courses Taught - Game Design 1, Game Scripting, Introduction to Programming, Production Studio
• Taught Unreal Engine 4 and acted as project lead for undergrad capstone project.
• Developed curriculum, lectures, and assignments for undergraduate game design program.

Carlsbad, CA

• Shipped Titles - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019), Destiny 2: Forsaken, Destiny 2
• Level design for main campaign missions and public combat spaces. Worked with artists to translate the level blockout into final art.
• Scripted encounters, objectives, and custom gameplay using proprietary C-based scripting language. Owned the design from documentation to polish.
• Worked with engineering and external partner studios to create new tool functionality, scriptable objects, and vignettes.

Aliso Viejo, CA

• Shipped Title - WildStar: Reloaded (FTP Relaunch)
• Implemented dozens of quests for scalable end-game instances, holiday events, daily quests, and tutorials.
• Wrote scripts to handle combat encounters, cinematics, and unique player mechanics. Created template scripts for designers to rapidly create new content.
• Feature lead for the game’s first live event. Maintained documentation, worked with other departments to create new assets, and tracked progress and dependencies.

Aliso Viejo, CA

• Shipped Title - Wildstar
• Implemented more than 50 quests for the two starting zones including AI combat behavior, NPCs, dialogue, cinematics, and scripting.
• Created a haunted forest for the Halloween live event with new enemy types, custom AI, unique player transformation spells, new player abilities, and traps.
• Feature lead for the tutorial system. Worked with other departments to establish technical specs, best practices, and narrative voice.

Orange County, California Area

• Created an indie game company, led weekly standup meetings, managed tasks among all departments, and successfully greenlit Pixel Slayer (a 2D multiplayer game) on Steam Greenlight.
• Worked with the team’s artist to create 10 levels that support multiple game modes and the team’s programmer to implement a node-based AI system for multiple difficulties.
• Utilized both C# and visual scripting tools to design, implement, and balance all game systems (including player movement, multiple game modes, player customization, UI, etc.).

Plano, TX

• Acted as vision holder for Voodudes, a third-person action-adventure game. This graduate program capstone was selected by Intel to be part of their GDC 2013 student showcase.
• Designed the game’s tutorial level, intro boss arena, and final boss arena.
• Conceptualized, implemented, and balanced 6 player abilities, 8 enemy types, and 2 bosses.
• Scripted the AI and behavior of several boss encounters and attacks, including the signature ability of the game’s final boss.

Mit (Master Of Interactive Technology), Level Design

Honors: "Voodudes" chosen to present at Intel’s GDC 2013 booth, "Food Feud" selected by faculty to appear at national STEM conference.

Communications, Public Relations And Business Management

Activities and Societies: Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, PRSSA, Bradley PR Agency, Daily Universe and University CommunicationsHonors: Cum.