Jason Reynolds Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington, United States

Creative direction and development for Destiny 2 Episodic content to be released in 2024 and beyond: Episode: Echoes and Episode: Heresy.- Holistically responsible for conceptualizing and directing all aspects of a seasonal product release, ensuring that they scale with aggressive development windows, and surpass KPIs.- Drives stakeholder management and cross-functional teams to inform and refine game development decisions, ensuring a cohesive and strategic product vision.- Adopts a player-centric approach, utilizing empathy and analytics to create innovative product features that resonate with a global audience. - Leads cross-disciplinary team through development, instilling ownership and uniting the team around a cohesive and compelling creative vision. Fosters cross-disciplinary collaboration to cultivate a positive and inspiring environment.- Guides team through ambiguity and challenges with adaptive strategies to achieve project delivery.- Manages and mentors designers, investing in their career growth, and seeking opportunities to help them reach their goals.

Greater Seattle Area

Creative direction and development for Destiny 2 Seasonal content: Season of Plunder, Season of Defiance, Season of the Witch.

Seattle, Washington

Designed and developed multiple features for Destiny 2 seasonal releases (Arrivals, Chosen, Lost, and Risen), covering a range of full activities and bespoke encounters.Feature Lead for various seasonal release activities, including Proving Grounds Strike, Shattered Realms, and 2021 Festival of the Lost: Haunted Sectors, and PsiOps Battlegrounds.

Greater Seattle Area

Team Lead (Product Owner) on Guild Wars 2: Living World.- Responsible for pitching and leading the development of episodic content releases for Guild Wars 2.- Worked with interdisciplinary stakeholders to break story and game play for multi-chapter content releases which include (and are not limited to) new world locations, armies, reward systems, achievements, encounters, technical features, and major plot lines.- Lead team to develop industry leading content that drives recurring player engagement.- Uphold product vision for my team while fostering inventive, compelling design choices.- Routinely improve development pipelines to make content development more efficient.- Innate desire to cultivate cross-discipline relationships to boost productivity and help solve thorny design challenges.- Employ action-combat design proficiency to create unique and varied combat encounters and campaign missions.- Supervise direct reports for Design team, mentor junior designers, and handle hiring manager duties.- Present new products directly to press and fans alike during announcement events and conventions.

Greater Seattle Area

Designed and implemented end game (Raids) system.Created several unique and varied combat encounters for solo and multiplayer content.

Marketing team project manager: brand management, community outreach, convention event planning, ad buys.

Senior Level Designer for Wildstar MMO. Primarily responsible for dungeon and raid map design and environment art.

Designed class functionality, game play modes, and levels for team-based third person shooter.

Multimeda, Game Design

Activities and Societies: Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity

Multimeda, Game Design

Activities and Societies: Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity