Jun 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 10 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

• Symbol Zero does interactive software development across Games, XR, Virtual Worlds, and Virtual Concerts This includes traditional, PC/Console/Mobile games, XR (VR/AR/MR) work for games, simulations, education, enterprise, and virtual platforms. We are the primary virtual concert provider for Roblox. Our virtual events/virtual concerts include the Lil Nas X Virtual Concert Experience, Twenty One Pilots Virtual Concert Experience, Royal Blood Halftime Show at the Bloxy Awards, In The Heights Promotional, and the David Guetta Virtual DJ Experience. We are also building Open World Games and Cloud Platforms.

Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 · 3 yrs · San Francisco, CA

Jan 2015 – Jan 2020 · 5 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 · 1 yr · Novato

• Mafia 3, Game, level and open world design. City planning. Mission design.

Sep 2012 – Jan 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Creative Director of an indie Mobile/Console outfit in the Bay Area. Working on prototypes and contracts for the casual, midcore and hardcore games for the mobile (phone/tablet/iOS/Android), online (browser), and downloadable (small scale PC/console) spaces.

Jun 2012 – Nov 2012 · 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Creative Director for GLASS Lab at the Bay Area collaboration between Institute of Play's and Electronic Arts Redwood Shores. Working with the Gates Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Education Testing Service, Pearson Publishing, and Stanford Research Intl.

Jun 2012 – Nov 2012 · 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Games Learning and Assessment
• GLASS Lab is a experiment in thinking about games, education, learning. Can we make games that are fun and teach at the same time? Can we chart and document the process of teaching and learning scientifically rather than through the oral tradition, intuition and random guesses that we usually use in the game industry? Can we figure out the best way to teach both real world knowledge and game mechanics?

May 2010 – Jan 2012 · 1 yr 8 mos · Dallas, TX

• _____id Mobile / Digital_____
• Project Manager (Project Lead, Design Lead & Producer)
• reporting to John Carmack
• coordinating with Tim Willits, Kevin Cloud & Todd Hollenshead
• working w/ 4 id Software Studio Heads to concept, design & scope new digital and mobile projects
• pitch & design complete original game designs, ports, experiments, re-releases connected to id IP for multiple connected releases
• delving into legacy id IP and releases
• balancing legacy concepts with newly conceived material
• working with some of the nicest, smartest folks in the industry
• id Tech 5 rocks! beyond anything else in the industry
• using Agile Development, leading scrum, doing sprints
• hiring, growing, tasking, scheduling and leading my team
• design on all parts of the games: levels, systems, user interface, AI, weapons, controls, cinematics, audio, dialogue, localization, etc

Apr 2007 – Dec 2008 · 1 yr 8 mos · Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area

• Senior Designer/Producer at EA BlackBox (Vancouver).
• Lead Level/UI Designer on the Need for Speed franchise (Need for Speed '09)
• balanced both Design & Production responsibilities on Need for Speed

Apr 2007 – Dec 2008 · 1 yr 8 mos · Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area

• Senior Designer at EA BlackBox (Vancouver).
• Lead Level Design/Lead User Interface Design on the Need for Speed franchise (Need for Speed: Undercover)
• balanced both Design & Production responsibilities on Need for Speed

Apr 2006 – Apr 2007 · 1 yr · Greater Edmonton Metropolitan Area

• Lead Level/World Designer on an unannounced project
• Senior Level Design on Mass Effect
• Senior Game Designer within Bioware/Pandemic VGH.
• Responsible for world design & layout, managing level/mission design, design coordination with level art, level tools requests, middleware evaluation and designing camera, exploration/platforming & ambient/sandbox systems for level.

Apr 2006 – Apr 2007 · 1 yr · Greater Edmonton Metropolitan Area

• Lead Level/World Designer on an unannounced project
• Senior Level Designer on Mass Effect
• Senior Game Designer within Bioware/Pandemic VGH.
• Responsible for world design & layout, managing level/mission design, design coordination with level art, level tools requests, middleware evaluation and designing camera, exploration/platforming & ambient/sandbox systems for level.

Jan 2006 – Mar 2006 · 2 mos · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Game Designer briefly internaly transferred from Luxoflux to Neversoft to work on Gun 2 (cancelled)

Jan 2005 – Mar 2006 · 1 yr 2 mos · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Worked primarily at the Luxoflux studio on the True Crime series.
• Worked briefly at the Neversoft studio on the Gun series.
• True Crime: New York City (TC2): mission (level), game systems (mechanics) design & extensive playbalancing on True Crime: New York City (True Crime 2).
• True Crime 3: concepting, mission & systems design on a canceled project
• Prototyping: blue sky design using the Unreal 2 engine.
• Tony Hawk Project 8 & Gun 2: concepting and design for missions & sandbox systems.
• Resigned: due to cancelled projects.

Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 · 1 yr · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Game Designer on True Crime: New York City
• Prototyping & concepting on True Crime 3 & 4

Jan 2002 – Present · 24 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Game design consulting, creative partnership based around my own game design theories and practices for mobile, console, pc and handheld. Writing a book on game design. Periodic lectures including:
• original design on boardgames & iPhone game development
• lecture at the University of Texas at Austin on how to get into the game industry
• lecture at the University of Alberta at Edmonton on level design
• internal company round tables/forums on stealth gameplay and level design
• This work is informal, so as not to compete with my professional game industry work. It's a creative outlet for the academic and writer side of me ;-)

Apr 2001 – Jul 2003 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

• The Hobbit (PS2, GCN, XBX PC)
• Concepting, pre-production, level & systems design

May 2000 – Mar 2001 · 10 mos · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

• Thunder Rally (Cancelled)
• Sole designer on the project working with the creative director: concepting, pre-production, systems design, level design and then lead design on a cancelled, Nintendo specific, Gamecube car combat game.

Jan 2000 – Jan 2003 · 3 yrs · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

• coordinating membership, corporate sponsors, speakers and events

Jan 1999 – May 2000 · 1 yr 4 mos · Greater Boston

• Level design, background fiction, and dialogue on missions for Thief Gold and Thief 2 for Win.

Oct 1997 – Jan 2000 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Greater Boston

• Level design on over 1/3 of the levels for Dark Vengeance for PC/Mac

Jan 1996 – Jan 1997 · 1 yr