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Product owner and Writing Team stakeholder for a variety of internal and public-facing initiatives. Wrote dialogue, quest text, lore books, and incidental text. Developed, implemented, and iterated zone and guild stories.

Wrote clear and compelling content which presented plausible characters with their own stories. Ensured characters had real and understandable motivations. Wrote dialogue, quest text, lore books, and incidental text. Developed, implemented, and iterated zone- and alliance-wide stories.

Created gameplay outlines, wrote dialogue, and developed cutscene voice scripts for various projects including social and mobile games. Projects focused on rapid content development and weekly turnaround.For more information, please see Projects below.

Wrote approximately 300,000 words of short fiction, procedural text, and reference material for fiction anthologies and reference manuals. Please refer to Publication List below. * Book of Madness (Mage: the Ascension) * Guide to the Traditions (Mage: the Ascension) * Terra Verde (Trinity) * Trinity Player's Guide * Portfolio of a Dragon: Dunkelzahn's Secrets (Shadowrun) * Missions (Shadowrun) * Shadowrun Companion * Earthdawn Player's Compendium

Austin, Tx

Wrote interactive game dialogue, codex entries, and critical path documentation for massively multiplayer online game Star Wars: The Old Republic.* Consulted cross-departmental team of 20+ people while developing high priority critical path documentation to guarantee “first time right.”* Collaborated with World Design to create showcase game level with minimal budget. Emphasized environmental storytelling to reward player exploration.* Ensured all writing adhered to guidelines provided by LucasArts, custodian of Star Wars intellectual property.

Reston, Va

Created and maintained websites for largest independent behavioral health and wellness company in America.* Created graphics, styling and functionality for flagship web application AchieveSolutions and various internal web applications.* Provided design and content updates for 40+ public-facing websites within the ValueOptions network.* Established and maintained 508 Compliance for all public-facing websites.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Supported Charles Drew Biomedical Institute, the national training department of the American Red Cross.* Conceptualized, created, coded, and managed the Charles Drew Biomedical Institute intranet and Biomedical Integrated Training System (BiTS) Implementation websites.* Technical Lead for 16 American Red Cross blood facilities during multi-year migration of Registrar Learning Management System to web-based BiTS.* Processed more than 750 trouble-tickets per quarter related to BiTS or National Biomedical Computer System (NBCS) training environment.

Arlington, Va

Created and maintained websites for nationwide hospitality industry.* Developed the CAIS/MSN Portal in conjunction with Microsoft Corporation.* Designed custom pages for individual hospitality and multi-family properties.* Created interactive help/user guides for in-house web application C-Siteflex.

Alexandria, Va

Co-founded Metatek LLC to solve the online music crisis of the late 1990s.* Business development, software design, programming, web development, and graphic design.

Cognitive Science

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