Oct 2015 – May 2018 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• In October of 2015 I was honored to be appointed Associate Chair of the Interactive Media & Games Division of USC's School of Cinematic Arts. I completed my term as Associate Chair in May of 2018, passing the baton to Jane Pinckard.

May 2013 – Dec 2024 · 11 yrs 7 mos

• I am extremely honored to have been made a tenured Associate Professor in the Interactive Media and Games Division of USC's School of Cinematic Arts. I will continue to teach game design, development and production to graduates and undergraduates (as well as the occasional PhD candidate from USC's great iMAP program!) and I am continuing work on a series of experimental games as part of a research project.
• I could not be more delighted to have been honored with tenure by the Provosts of USC, and I am very grateful for the wonderful support and encouragement I've received from my amazing colleagues among the faculty of the School of Cinematic Arts, and from across the university. I'm looking forward to a long career at USC, helping to forge new possibilities for games and interactive media.

May 2012 – May 2013 · 1 yr

• I am very excited to be joining the talented faculty and students of the Interactive Media Division of USC's School of Cinematic Arts as a Visiting Associate Professor. I teach game design to both graduates and undergraduates, and am beginning work on a series of experimental games as part of a research project.
• I'm thrilled to be moving into this role, and I'm looking forward to helping a new generation of game designers embrace the craft of game making, while also taking my own design practice in some new directions.

Nov 2009 – Apr 2012 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• My job title was Lead Game Designer for this phase of my work at Naughty Dog, and I was Co-Lead Game Designer, alongside Jacob Minkoff, on the third game in Naughty Dog's flagship Sony PlayStation game series, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception.
• My duties included helping to manage Naughty Dog's amazing and talented design team, propagating the directors' game design vision across the whole development team, various aspects of systems design, and level design and implementation, including the London Underground level.
• Our game was released worldwide at the beginning of November, 2011, and was another huge hit for Naughty Dog.

Jan 2008 – Oct 2009 · 1 yr 9 mos

• I am excited to be leading the design of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, alongside my friend and colleague Neil Druckmann. To make the organizational structure of the studio clearer I've adopted the job title of Co-Lead Game Designer.

Sep 2005 – Dec 2007 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• For this interval I used the job title of Game Director at Naughty Dog, and took the functional role of Lead Game Designer for Naughty Dog's first PlayStation 3 project, 'Uncharted: Drake's Fortune'. In its first five months 'Uncharted' sold 1.4 million copies, and was a standout commercial and critical success. We were very pleased by the warm reception that the game received.
• Uncharted: Drake's Fortune - 2007

Jun 2004 – Sep 2005 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Naughty Dog, Inc. is a world-famous game development studio, renowned for its multi-million-selling titles 'Crash Bandicoot' and 'Jak and Daxter'. My role at NDI includes design origination, production coordination, gameplay tuning and implementation. I am deeply delighted and excited to be working with such a dynamic group of world-class games development talent, including many old friends. Naughty Dog, Inc. has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Computer Entertainment America since 2001.
• In October 2005 we shipped 'Jak X: Combat Racing', a turbo-charged, ballistic motor sport game set in the world of 'Jak and Daxter'. The game features 11 event types, 31 venues, an Adventure Mode with over 40 minutes of movie-quality animation and an Exhibition Mode with Naughty Dog's first online gameplay.
• Jak X: Combat Racing (PlayStation 2) - 2005
• Jak 3 (PlayStation 2) - 2004

Jan 1995 – Jun 2004 · 9 yrs 5 mos

• I worked for almost a decade at Crystal Dynamics, joining the studio soon after it was founded. I worked on a string of ground-breaking games alongside amazing people, and I gained a lot of experience as a hands-on, production-oriented designer. At Crystal Dynamics I developed my interests in innovative action-adventure gameplay, interactive storytelling, team leadership and tools pipeline development, learning an uncountable number of valuable lessons along the way.
• It was during this time that I was introduced to the idea of 'concentric development' - the process of rapidly building out a game's asset footprint in order to better iterate the game design and make the production schedule clearer and more predictable.
• Legacy of Kain: Defiance (PlayStation 2) - 2003
• Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 (PlayStation 2) - 2001
• Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver (PlayStation) - 1999
• Gex: Enter the Gecko (PlayStation) - 1998
• Pandemonium (PlayStation) - 1996
• Gex (3DO) - 1995

Nov 1991 – Dec 1994 · 3 yrs 1 mo

• I got my start in the games industry working at the UK division of legendary American developer MicroProse. I learned a tremendous amount from the experienced games-makers I worked alongside, and look back at this time in my career very fondly! I was the sole game designer on two published projects for the division's fledgling videogame development arm: Tinhead, a frenetic side-scrolling platform game/shoot-'em-up hybrid, and F-15 Strike Eagle II, the second-ever real-time 3D game for the Sega Genesis.
• Tinhead (Sega Genesis) - 1993
• F-15 Strike Eagle II (Sega Genesis) - 1993