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Irvine, California, United States

Working on the World of Warcraft encounters team.- World of Warcraft: The War Within- World of Warcraft: Dragonflight

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

- Ideated, pitched, and documented tactical turn-based RPG game concept.- Designed, prototyped, and implemented game features, systems, and content in Unreal Engine.- Implemented custom A* and grid solution for pathfinding in Blueprints.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Senior Designer on Minecraft: Legends

Vancouver, Canada Area

Director of Game Design Programs at the Centre for Entertainment Arts.- Ensured all design and development curriculum is up to industry standards.- Hired and managed 20+ instructional staff, mentors, and teaching assistants.- Mentored and guided students through the game design and development journey.- Taught multiple design courses to students and provided feedback on assignments.- Established business development relations with Canadian studios to get students internships and contracts.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Senior Designer on Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville.- Took ownership and oversaw the Turf Takeover game mode near ship.Senior Level Designer on multiple cancelled Star Wars projects.- Blocked out gameplay spaces using proprietary tools and Maya.- Prototyped various open world activities and events using proprietary visual scripting tools.- Designed and documented various world locations and levels during preproduction.Senior Level Designer on Star Wars: Squadrons.- Prototyped various mission beats for the campaign during preproduction.

Montreal

Lead the single player level design team for Star Wars Battlefront 2.- Worked with direction to establish vision for level design.- Managed and mentored a team of twelve level designers, ranging from junior to senior.- Saw through twelve single player chapters from concept to ship.- Created document templates and kept documents up to date for other disciplines and external partners.- Worked with technical design to establish implementation standards.- Reviewed game content and provided feedback and guidance to the team.- Worked and communicated closely with other discipline leads to create a cohesive experience.- Collaborated cross studio with EAV, DICE and Criterion.- Collaborated with level artists to create whiteboxing kits.- Took ownership of implementing two chapters.- Approver and reviewer for any LD related bug during build locks.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Level Design Instructor at Vancouver Film School.- Updated entire level design curriculum with current and relevant industry experience.- Converted all UDK course material to Unreal Engine 4.- Mentored students through the creative process of level design and project development.- Graded student’s work according to an objective and qualitative rubric to assess level design aptitude.- Taught students level design theory, practical processes, hands on tools and efficient workflows.- Awarded 3 Best Instructor and 4 Best Course Awards by students

Montreal, Canada Area

Level Designer on Watch Dogs.- Designed and implemented a portion of the critical path, including final level/boss fight.- Blocked out and iterated on gameplay spaces with primitives and mesh kits.- Conceived, prototyped and implemented multiple game objects and mission beat types.- Iterated content based on playtest and director feedback to bring owned missions to 4/5+ quality mark.- Point of contact for auditing and refactoring released junior level designer’s work.- “Power User" of proprietary level design tools.Level Designer on Watch Dogs 2.- Prototyped various mechanics, mission types, and features during preproduction.

Design Scripter on Prototype 2.- Designed and implemented a variety of story/open world missions.- Used Lua and proprietary placement tools to implement story/open world missions.- Created custom camera sequences in game for dramatic moments and important reveals.- Set dressed owned mission areas with props and ambient NPCs for world storytelling.- Worked closely with writers and artists to ensure custom content was cohesive with the mission.- Championed implementation of Black.net terminals and open world hunt targets.

Level Designer on SSX.- Used Houdini and Python implement procedural rules for creating tracks using voxelization. - Prototyped terrain types for gameplay proof of concept.- Tackled track design issues and solved them with procedural solutions.

Quest Designer on Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned.- Designed and implemented a portion of the main quest and over a dozen side quests.- Used a proprietary visual scripting tool and systemic quest managing tool to implement quests.- Designed, prototyped and helped implement multiple features including NPC vs. NPC combat, environmental interaction mechanics and spawn closets.- Championed character database, which included organizing and maintaining all NPC archetypes.

Game Design

Mathematics, Physics And Chemistry