I run games publishing at Panic, who've published Firewatch, Untitled Goose Game, and Nour: Play With Your Food. We'll also be publishing the upcoming Thank Goodness You're Here, Arco, Despelote, Time Flies, and Big Walk.My role involves leading our games team, finding new games to publishing, managing platform relations/partnerships and lifecycle management, looking new opportunities for existing games, and much more.

Co-founded a new game studio with David Hellman and Nico Recabarren, working on our debut game Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure.I'm serving as writer, producer, and business development, while we share creative direction of the game.

Candid conversations with game creators that dive deep into the art, craft, and process of making games.Our podcast began life as The Spelunky Showlike with Nick Suttner, Zach Gage, Douglas Wilson, and Andy Nealen, and has since evolved into Eggplant, and added Sarah Elmaleh, Laura E. Hall, and Rob Dubbin to our host pool.https://eggplant.show

Writing and narrative design work on games like Celeste, Guacamelee! 2, Bloodroots, JETT: The Far Shore, and Carto (on which I also lead biz dev). Consulting and advising on various other projects.

• Served as the primary point of contact for 200+ VR developers, managing 30+ Oculus Rift game releases to the storefront, including several for the launch of the Touch controllers. Worked closely with engineering, operations, and store teams to launch the best possible titles, at the right price/date, with appropriate store promotion.• Served as a business development leader on our team, signing multiple funding partnerships around some of the most promising VR titles. Also led our competitive analysis to make sure we were working with the best VR studios worldwide.• Represented our Developer Strategy team internally, working closely with marketing, social, and PR/comms teams to secure support for the best third-party Rift releases across all of our promotional channels. Also represented Oculus externally at events such at E3, GDC, and PAX.

• Personally secured and managed the release of platform-defining, world-class exclusive partner content for PlayStation4 and PlayStationVR, including The Witness, Firewatch, Transistor, Rez Infinite, Thumper, and dozens more exclusive partnerships.• Served as the primary point of contact for hundreds of independent developers, acting as their internal champion, representing their needs and voice within SIEA to executive teams; also responsible for securing PlayStation Store merchandising support for game launches, as well as support across PR, co-marketing, social, ops, release management, and events teams.• Managed the digital portfolio across PS4 and PSVR to best identify platform opportunities for partner content, plan ideal release timing, and provide visibility for other internal teams and regions, while collaborating with management on department vision, policy, and goals.• Performed significant developer outreach across annual industry events (E3, GDC, PAX, etc.) to educate devs on Sony platforms, leading talks, keynotes, panels, meetings, and mixers; instrumental in bringing hundreds of new devs to PlayStation and growing its dev community.• Saw products through from outreach to licensing to development to release; shepherded developers through the paperwork, liaised with legal, developer support, and many other teams to make sure developers and their titles were fully supported throughout the process.• Co-founded and co-hosted 213 weekly episodes of the Official PlayStation Blogcast; interacted with the PlayStation community across social media channels to champion digital content.

• Evaluated game proposals from a wide range of publishers (from Activision and Rockstar to self-publishing indies), giving detailed design feedback to better define game features, take advantage of platform initiatives, and target both higher sales and a winning critical reception.• Identified incoming game concepts for partnership interest, meeting with publishers both locally and afar to discuss product lineups and platform opportunities.

• Wrote 100+ game reviews for both print and online outlets, while assigning and editing reviews for a team of staff and freelancers; in addition, planned and contributed game previews, features, cover stories, news, podcasts, and video shows.