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• Writes detailed, exciting, and spooky dialogue and branching narrative for "The Necromancer's Tale"
• Develops characters, quests, and scenarios with an aim for atmospheric, dark storytelling and difficult choices gameplay

Tempe, Arizona

• Released major AAA project Halo: The Master Chief Collection (Reach for PC and Xbox)
• Conduct automated and manual gray box testing to find and report issues to developers
• Lead and perform new build verification to ensure the integrity and testability of fresh builds
• Investigate bugs such as crashes, soft locks, UUI issues, gameplay bugs, and other content issues
• Write clear and concise bugs, focusing on clarity and accuracy of reproduction steps

Tempe, Arizona, USA

• Provided game design feedback for the NSF-funded Play in the Making research project
• Acted as a liaison between researchers and instructors
• Recorded highly-confidential data during game design instructional sessions involving families
• Provided game design insight to participants and instructors as difficulties arose
• Analyzed board games made by participants for project insight and reproduction

• Organized and write game treatments and outlines
• Worked with project owner to tackle problems and avoid pitfalls in design
• Discussed project goals and solutions with art and programming teams
• Wrote scripts for dialogue and action sequences
• Revised ideas and scripts according to feedback

• Wrote Trance, a novella-length work for the Everyst storytelling platform (https://fromeveryst.com/)
• Devised four full weeks of daily content (28 days) from basic outline to finished script
• Worked with editor to hammer out problems and concerns, tailoring the story to the platform’s audience
• Studied Technobablylon (https://is.gd/Technobabylon) to create the story adapted from the game’s world

• Guided 360 students across 6 courses related to games, media, art, and design
• Engaged students in discussion on topics related to games and experience design, art and media history
• Regularly graded 60 students’ work in a week while also giving lectures and attending my own classes
• Acted as a mentor, student-teacher liaison, and expert for students
• Engaged in rigorous confidentiality practices to ensure the safety of students
• Published studies of player communities and… Show more

• Worked on two released episodes for the commercial project Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller
• Laid out interactions for objects and characters across multiple scenes
• Translated game script into gameplay via in-house visual scripting language
• Developed scripting solutions to puzzles vital to gameplay
• Worked with cinematic artists and sequencers to bring scenes together
• Attended daily scrum meetings to go over current tasks and bring up needs to the larger team

Master Of Fine Arts - Mfa, Creative Writing

Activities and Societies: Sigma Tau Delta—International English Honors Society Thesis Novel: The Pinned Pawn, a near-future police.

Graduate Certificate, Teaching Online Writing

Master Of Fine Arts (M.F.A.), Digital Arts & New Media

Thesis: Dirt Under the Rug: An Application of Paradigmatic Game Design Committee: Robin Hunicke, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Chemers

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Rhetoric And Composition

Applied Project: Building My Own Home: Working Between English and Digital Game Design Committee: Maureen Goggin

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Creative Writing