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California, United States

Vancouver, CA

Content Designer at EA Sports working on Madden 25.

Led the world building efforts on an unannounced MMORPG. Spearheaded quest design, character development, and dialogue writing.

Established a futuristic sci-fi universe by writing a 10k word story bible. Produced an exciting, 22k word document outlining a 20-hour story-focused plot, including narrative branching. Created a diverse ensemble cast of eight likeable, memorable characters. Developed a prototype in UE5 with systems to author cinematic scenes with branching dialogue.

Granada Hills, CA, US

Led the narrative production for 9+ IPs across genres. Developed narrative for 4 feature-complete vertical slices and prototypes in Unity. Simultaneously juggled several projects at once, successfully overseeing narrative for each project. Satisfied clients by providing narrative consultation, improving project workflows, and product ideation. Pitched.

Alpharetta, GA, US

Rogue Company | Consoles, PC | Released 2020 | Wrote 12 polished, player-facing character backstory documents. Provided enough time within deadlines to receive and factor in multiple rounds of feedback from stakeholders. Wrote in-game barks and assisted in worldbuilding.

Guro-gu, Seoul, KR

Simultaneously maintained English language quality, story bibles, and style guides on 5+ F2P MMO and RPGs in various stages of development – from preproduction to live service. Edited ~1M words per year. Tested all dialogue to ensure proper context and delivery. Edited game text of 16+ published titles.

El Segundo, California, US

QA tester on Maple Story. Also helped test a variety of other Nexon titles.

Hanoi, Hanoi, VN

Toy Odyssey: The Lost and Found | Consoles, PC | Released 2016 | Wrote dialogue for 160+ quests, totaling over 1,000 lines. Wrote several diary entries for 8 characters. Wrote descriptions for 12 NPCs and the main character. Worked with international stakeholders to develop the game’s dark, emotional 6-hour plot. Wrote descriptions for 40+ enemies.

Chieti, CH, IT

Designed 130+ point-and-click gameplay sequences, including all dialogue for 30 different characters, and direction for artists. Worked with stakeholders to develop the game’s 10-hour plot.

QA tester working on mobile and PC games that interfaced with physical toys. Reported thousands of bugs.

Developed world, plot, and characters. Wrote dialogue, cutscenes, and gameplay sequences in a high-fantasy match-3 combat game.

Whispering Willows | Consoles, PC | Released 2014 | Developed the award-winning story, plot, and characters. Wrote all dialogue, cutscenes, gameplay sequences, item descriptions, and journals.

Denver, Colorado, US

- Collaborated with client to successfully strategize a system for content delivery to the end-user.- Conceptualized and produced Storybook synopses to the client. Revised based on their input. Revisions were accepted.- Worked with one other writer to write full Storybooks with art direction for artists.

Denver, Colorado, US

- Collaborated with client to successfully strategize a system for content delivery to the end-user.- Submitted initial draft of app scripts for client review. Revised and delivered final, polished draft to the client.

I wrote an episode treatment and an episode, and submitted and received critique for each.

Wrote dialogue, character backgrounds, story depth, cinematics, game description, etc.. Was in charge of one other writer. Collaborated with level design team to implement inherent storytelling practices, audio team and voice actors to produce dialogue, and concept artists to produce storyboards.

Wrote dialogue, character backgrounds, story depth, cinematics, etc.. Collaborated with artists to produce storyboards, audio team and voice actors to produce dialogue, animation team to produce cinematics, and level design team to produce tutorial dialogue.

B.S. Computer Animation And Game Development, Minor In Game Design; Minor In Creative Writing

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