NBA2K24, NBA 2K23, NBA 2K24• Led MyCAREER team, initially sized at 2 on NBA 2K23 seeing growth to 8 on NBA2K24, from concepting and ideation to fully realized execution for brand new Rivals 1v1 feature for 2K23, and expansion to 3v3 in 2K24, quest design and flow, narrative, UI/UX improvements, and world building• Increased design output by identifying employee skillsets, and entrusting ownership to individuals to execute meaningful changes for each 2-week Sprint Review presentation• Decreased design team crunch by roughly 90% from NBA 2K22 to NBA 2K24 by improving and designing proprietary tools, careful planning, reacting to the previous year’s bottlenecks and working closely to better our processes with the production department• Increased team morale and excitement by encouraging creativity and outside the box thinking and kept ahead of the curve by starting planning meetings and pre-production immediately post ship• Passionately mentored designers through one on ones, performance feedback and coaching• Contributed to quest narrative through dialog writing, NPC characterization and story outline, and held responsibility for maintaining consistency and clean editing within text displayed within the game

Mobile Original IP• Collaborated closely with AI engineer to build engaging enemy encounters utilizing Behavior Trees in Unreal Engine 4, and improved out of the box features for AI optimization• Participated in paper design brainstorm sessions to formulate archetypes and abilities for player characters and prototyped them in Unreal Engine 4’s Gameplay Ability System• Provided mentorship and feedback through chat sessions with design team members and through Miro boards• Rapidly iterated on concepts in a prototype environment from feedback given by the team in daily playtests

Crowfall• Led vision and execution for New Player Experience by mapping out important systems and concepts, formulating a compelling narrative, and intuitive quest flow• Quickly and effectively addressed and iterated on feedback given from the Creative Director after play through sessions• Maximized efficiency of quest implementation by creating a Unity-based quest editor in collaboration with the tools engineer

Mobile• Led and mentored a team of designers in a rapid mobile environment providing direction to execute a concrete vision in order to release games with solid core loops and find what resonated with our desired audience• Mapped out approachable and player friendly flow for First Time User Experience and implemented the experience within Unity• Triaged tasking and bugs interdepartmentally to ensure polished and on-time deliverables• Soft launched Monster Battle World and Monster Mega Battle on an aggressive timeline and utilized analytics to adjust design to better surprise and delight players• Created playable paper prototype for RPG Dice: Heroes of Whitestone to test core loops, systems and game play with team members, and other volunteer employees• Delivered researched presentations on player interaction, monetization trends, and led all game pitches

MMO | Wizard101, Pirate 101• Designed gameplay flow, quest writing, encounter design, and performed full implementation• Spearheaded design for level tiered multiplayer gauntlets to reduce data bloat and implementation time by around 80%• Managed multiple systems including fishing, mob creation and deck building• Developed Pirate101 from pre-production, through production and post-launch• Maintained Live Ops, quickly addressed hotfixes, and managed multiple branches

Mobile• Owned UI/UX design and implementation including wireframing, scripting, and UI animation within Unity• Effectively communicated with tech, art and design departments to quickly iterate vision for UI/UX• Worked with engineering to set up correct variables for UI/UX and plug in UI events in C#

MMO | Wizard101, Pirate 101• Scripted NPCs, mobs, objects, encounters, and boss fights to create engaging player interaction• Added ambient life to zones to provide an organic, bustling world• Designed tool improvements for multiplayer dungeon issues in combat, object and NPC interaction• Kept documentation up to date and provided training guides to new employees• Trained new employees in proprietary design tools, bug reporting, and production procedures

MMO | Wizard101, Pirate101• Worked with Narrative team to brainstorm story arcs, mainline content and side quests for multiple worlds• Formulated characters, character back stories and wrote sideline quests for Pirate101• Created top-down maps for art and worked with concept and environment artists on zone design and flow• Recognized tool pain points and worked to improve our toolset to make our day-to-day output greater