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Vancouver, Bc, Ca

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Adjusting, rescoping, and prioritizing tasks and capacity; tracking velocity; iterating on the project roadmap; maintaining narrative documentation on lore and characters; developing narrative systems; writing dialogue; attending promotional events.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Co-led the Quests & Encounters team in developing a fast-paced vertical slice demo with a 2-week workaround, identifying priorities and delegating tasks;• Pitched an approved project, including forming a team, directing concept art, audio, and design fundamentals;• Collaborated on restructuring the studio’s task management and documentation practices; focusing on features above disciplines.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Responsible for the project’s Narrative systems and documentation, from conceptualization to implementation in Unreal Engine 5;• Owned the creative vision behind a AAA family-friendly ARPG’s hub area, writing documentation, style guides, and dialogue for both critical path and optional content;• Acted as Narrative point-of-contact across all disciplines, collaborating closely with the Gameplay, Engineering, Art, UI, and Audio departments; championing a holistic design philosophy and project cohesion.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Wrote character dialogue for mid-mission beats, cinematics, and loading screens;• Supported VO recording sessions and casting;• Led a team of narrative designers, triaging and delegating tasks based on strengths, interests, areas of growth, and project needs;• Collaborated with Marketing and Art in creating promotional material;• Owned the localization pipeline for the project, serving as the point-of-contact between the Loc team in Europe and the designers in-house;• Presented project pitches and directed prototypes for expansion content;• Created and managed documentation and tracking solutions for narrative content, including pipeline stages, current line counts and other narrative metrics;• Implemented and scripted dialogue in Relic’s proprietary Essence Engine; • Fixed narrative bugs and answered translator queries.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Ran the D&D club for the Game Design program at Vancouver Film School, DM'ing 9 D&D 5e campaigns and introducing 50+ students to tabletop RPGs and the narrative/game design principles associated with them.

- Devising and leading narrative features for multiple projects, taking a holistic approach and focusing on the player's role in the narrative;- Creating characters, lore, world-building, writing plot outlines;- Proposing and iterating upon features and systems that combine narrative ideals and gameplay needs in ways that promote coherence and consistency;- Infusing existing mechanics with narrative purpose;- Collaborating with Concept Art, UI/UX, and Branding in developing characters and visual identities for several elements of the projects' fictional universes such as companies, manufacturers, factions, etc;- Acting as the narrative representative in the conception and development of different projects, owning all narrative documentation and best practices.

Vancouver, Canada Area

- Scripted dialogue in Unreal Engine 4, resulting in a cohesive branched narrative experiencefor multiple levels from the core campaigns of Gears 5 and its DLC Hivebusters;- Implemented accessibility features in subtitles that won awards from specialized media;- Wrote thousands of battle chatter lines for dozens of diverse characters, from classic heroes to promo appearances coming from real-world IPs;- Designed and populated unscripted dialogue pools using custom tools;- Responsible for the quality of all VO material to assure its narrative consistency, bridging between creative vision and gameplay flow;- Prepared dialogue scripts for recording, overseeing sessions and coordinating their audio files from delivery to implementation (recording, mastering, editing);- Collaborated with the localization team to provide them with support material and estimates;- Wrote comprehensive documentation guides that other designers and new hires used tonavigate the project’s complex pipeline processes.

Handled in-game text, dialogue, narration, barks, item/skill descriptions and narrative documentation. Created lore, worked on world-building and brainstormed narrative elements for multiple projects, such as Sword Legacy: Omen (swordlegacy.com), winner of the Best Storytelling Award at SBGames 2016.Published by Team17, it's a dark re-imagining of the King Arthur mythos in the form of a challenging tactical RPG. I was responsible for all narrative content and in-engine implementation, collaborating with Game Designers and the Narrative Director, editing scripts, codex and lore pieces. I've also directed multiple Voice Actors for narration and grunts and provided consulting for localization (FR, DE, RU, PT-BR).

São Paulo E Região, Brasil

Freelance Translator / Localizer working mainly with games, but also with TV shows, online articles and PR releases.

Vancouver, Canada Area

At VFS, I focused on the Narrative Design, Mission Design, Cinematic Design and Level Design areas of the program. I graduated with honours in August 2015 and received an "Excellence in Story" award for one of my projects (featured below).

São Paulo E Região, Brasil

Indie developer working on personal projects acting as Narrative, Game and Level Designer, Writer, Producer / Project Manager and 2D keyframe animator.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

During my projects at Film School I specialized in screenwriting and creative direction.

São Paulo

Institutional video editing, event filming.

Game Design, Graduated With Honours

Bachelor'S Degree, Audiovisual

Roteiro Para Quadrinhos, Comic Book Writing

Curso Profissionalizante De Animação 2D, Traditional Animation