Lead Gameplay Designer: Combining Narrative & Gameplay vision into a functional and fun game prototype. Gameplay Design, open world survival RPG.Lead Systems Designer: Responsible for Economy balance, monetization, itemization systems and player progression.

As Expansion Set Lead, lead designer of the highest player spend expansion: The Ruined King Champion Expansion.As a co-design lead on the Fates Voyage: Onward & Beyond expansions, designed content that drove highest DAU in over 3 years.As competitive play lead, designed Gauntlet and Runeterra Open in game systems. Ideated and developed event pass reward track for participating in tournaments. Created long term player goals with Runeterra Points systems and qualification to World Championships.CREDITSExpedition Game ModeRuneterra Open Tournament FeatureDaily Gauntlet Feature and Game ModesCall of the Mountain ExpansionFated Voyage Onward Expansion Fates Voyage Beyond ExpansionThe Ruined King Champion ExpansionUnreleased Card ExpansionRising Tides ExpansionLegends of Runeterra Worlds 2022 & 2023Organized Play Lead, 2022 & 2023Lead Designer: LoR Invitational 2024

As the acting Live Balance lead, developed live design best practices and processes that led to a long term sustainable model for patching the game. With a frequent live service change model, changed industry standards of CCG patching frequency of competitors like Hearthstone and Magic Arena.

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Magic is where my entire journey began! Collaboration with teammates, strategic analysis, and an infinite amount of passion to improve and deliver results - aka "THE FIRE"! Oddly, my gaming career prepared me well for transition into development!I'm a former Magic: the Gathering World Champion, and former rank #3 worldwide. I won Pro Tour Shadows Over Innistrad in Madrid, have top 8'd 14 Grand Prix events, won 2 Starcitygames Opens, competed in the World Championships twice, and came in 2nd place in the online World Championship.I've collaborated and helped shape rag-tag friend groups into professional organizations, partnered with companies for sponsorships, and written countless strategic articles to share my knowledge with players worldwide.In the end, Riot Games chose me as the first outside of company person to playtest any of their R&D games. A few months later, I was hand selected from the group to work full time on Legends of Runeterra! After 6 Years of Development, both in R&D, Production, and as a Live Game, I was laid off and am looking for my next adventure.

Receptionist and Administrative Assistant at Orthopedic Office. Checked in patients, gathered patient information, confirmed insurance information. Worked with doctors and physicians assistants to keep them well informed and efficiently treated.

Data Entry and Management for SPORE (https://hillmanresearch.upmc.edu/research/spore/). Input research data from patients, pulled records for doctors and medical students, conducted patient interviews.