Nov 2019 – Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Lead a team of artists, engineers, tech artists and animators on the release of Tochi.
• Tochi is a gamification system designed to encourage social bonds through the app and reward long-term customers with a shared experience dressing up chicks they hatch together.
• Responsibilities span a hybrid of game design, production and general leadership skills.

Apr 2017 – Mar 2022 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Vienna, Austria

• No Rest for the Wicked (a coop, Precision Action RPG / Soulslike)
• Designed and balanced 9 unique core combat archetypes
• Develop weapon-driven skill progresson and system unlocks
• Planned 5 years of gear-driven combat progress
• Developed resource systems to support four different crafting and harvesting routes
• Architected a modular weapon skill system to allow for rich combat depth and item designer flexbility
• Wrote and compiled 110 pages of game design document for shareholder buy-in
• Implemented both high level and low level Photon Quantum timeline based gameplay architecture to support soulslike gameplay
• Designed numerous Unity editor tools for game design quality of life.
• Implement all core UI elements and ensured high quality, efficient communication of character state, progression, inventories, questing, hud elements and more.
• Directed a multi disciplinary team in the support of above objectives.
• Prototyped numerous game interactables to explore vehicular, trap, spell and puzzle initiatives
• Ori & the Will of the Wisps:
• Weapons and Shard Systems Design
• Progression, UI and Combat Balance

May 2016 – Present · 9 yrs 11 mos · San Diego, California, United States · Remote

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Feb 2015 – Present · 11 yrs 2 mos

• Travelling the globe, I visit start-ups and established game teams. Helping game designs and development teams, I fix organizational and morale problems, while providing precise and accurate problem solving for complex or unique design problems.
• I speak at Game Dev conferences on teaching and mentoring in game design, as well as how to develop game design teams.

Nov 2012 – Jan 2015 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Developed the vision trinket system, ensuring 10+ years of simple effective vision gameplay
• Dramatically improved the quality of life for support players during season 4
• Utilized technical skills to streamline tools and processes
• Improved UI to support wards, teamplay and recall timing
• Redesigned the champion Xerath, bringing them from a 0.5% playrate to an 8% playrate
• Coached associate designers on gameplay and mechanics
• Engaged with the community to improve reworks
• Worked in R&D on tools, systems and core design for unreleased action rpg

May 2006 – Oct 2012 · 6 yrs 5 mos

• Class Design: Warlock Revamp.
• Pet Battle Combat Engine
• Pet Battle Client Scene Scripting
• Numerous Boss Encounters, Quests, Minigames

Apr 2006 – Feb 2012 · 5 yrs 10 mos

• Everything you'd expect from a junior designer - lots of content implementation with a splash of creative insanity

Jan 2006 – Apr 2006 · 3 mos

• Firefall

Jan 2005 – Jan 2005 · 0 mo

Feb 2004 – Nov 2005 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Created the Cosmos team, which developed the world's most popular UI package for World of Warcraft.
• There I developed addons, libraries and evangelized early Cosmos development to users. I was responsible for the technical direction, quality control and crisis response plans. Presented information and updates professionally and attempted to maintain a basic consistency between addons.
• I also helped implement and push forward multi-lingual localization plans which lead to the success of Cosmos in Europe and Asia. (I also selected the name!)

Jan 2004 – Jan 2004 · 0 mo

Jan 2001 – Jan 2005 · 4 yrs

Jan 1995 – Jan 1998 · 3 yrs