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Irvine, CA, US

Irvine, CA, US

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Produce executive education and leadership program products for Tencent, Saudi Arabia’s NEOM, and other program partners, with a focus on games production, narrative design, and the development of original IP.

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Develop, execute, and maintain a rolling three-year-plan for the #1-ranked Game Design and Development program in North America, including P&L, budgets, curriculum, hiring, project production, and events.
• Created and executed a market-data driven growth plan to expand admissions by 120% between 2020 and 2022, and build educational verticals including live ops, themed entertainment, and mixed reality, increasing course.
• Managed process improvement in ongoing engineering collaboration and created new communication and engagement initiatives to improve educational outcomes.
• Led faculty initiative for new Game Art and Animation degree utilizing feedback from industry experts to address student needs and desires.
• Administrate game development operations and facilities for USC Games students and faculty, utilizing Jira, Perforce, Unity, Unreal, Asana, Trello, and other game development tools and software.
• Manage and provide guidance to staff and faculty managing educational verticals to ensure activities meet budget expectation and internal KPIs.

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Worked with industry executives to create and run an innovative pre-accelerator mentoring students in start-up fundamentals.

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Co-created and defined program strategy for the annual online USC Games Expo, the largest academic student games show in the world, leveraging influencer partnerships to attain a global reach of over 135,000,000.

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Originator of USC Games Publishing, first of its kind academic games publisher. Executive Producer of Publishing for Sony Playstation 4 releases of Chambara, The Cat and The Coup, The Night Journey, and Walden, a game.

Amsterdam, NL

• Created innovative massive interactive livestream roleplaying game.
• Created franchise and LiveOps content plans with business management for groundbreaking livestream product with 1,300,000 views per episode
• Established production group process and workflow improvements to ensure timely and high-quality delivery of scripts, art assets, and interaction designs.
• Built a top-talent streamer team from scratch, defining KPIs and workstreams, and fostering a motivated culture.

• Created Iron Game Design Challenge, a livestreamed Game Show and interview series with emerging and established game designers.
• Transformed yearly festival on minimal budget by moving to online streams in 2020 resulting in a positive consumer reaction and 200% increase in game views.

• Designed a series of game jams to drive innovative content development for emerging platforms, working with clients such as Google AR, Oculus, and Leap Motion.

• Produced and coached eight separate game development teams, simultaneously.
• Headed artist relations and content strategy, driving the creative vision for slate with developers and platform stakeholders.
• Developed strong relationships with development studios to establish and maintain a reliable and timely flow of information and materials to all parties as necessary.
• Published COGS Home, Slap Happy Sam's Stage Show, and Clusterpuck for Playstation HOME.

US

Los Angeles, CA, US

B.S.Sp., Theater

High School Diploma