Apr 2024 – Nov 2024 · 7 mos · Studio Blue · Remote

• ● Responsible for working with the Creative Director to develop and expand the intellectual property of our enemy characters (including developing them for transmedia use)
• ● Designed our two enemy factions and socialized their designs with the team
• ● Worked with the Lead AI Engineer to structure our utility-based AI system in Unreal Engine 5.

Jun 2023 – Apr 2024 · 10 mos · Los Angeles, California, United States · Remote

• ● Responsible for setting the quality bar for AI systems and creature content for our co-op third person melee action game, Wayfinder.
• ● Balanced game wide difficulty for all content.
• ● Set technical direction and priority for AI systems.
• ● Managed a team of three designers. Led the creature team of between 8-12 people.
• ● Designed and implemented five bosses and tens of enemies in Unreal Engine’s Gameplay Abilities System.

Jan 2023 – Jun 2023 · 5 mos · Los Angeles, California, United States · Remote

Jul 2021 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos · New York, New York, United States

• ● Responsible for establishing the quality bar for the combat system.
• ● Designed foundational weapons and player abilities.
• ● Worked with engineering to develop data-driven tools for combat
• designers in Unreal Engine 5.
• ● Hired, trained and mentored combat team members.

Sep 2019 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• ● Designed and built the moving, broken float level in the opening
• sequence of Rift Apart.
• ● Designed the majority of the Clank Puzzles. Designed and polished
• Clank player mechanics.
• ● Designed and built all non-race Arena Challenges for Rift Apart.
• ● Prototyped rift mechanics and their puzzle applications.
• ● Blocked out level segments in multiple worlds.

Sep 2014 – Sep 2019 · 5 yrs

• New World
• Developed data-driven character pipeline with engineering from the ground up including animation implementation tools, character state and transition solutions, AI behavior and perception systems, level layout tools and more.
• Owned designer tasking and technical direction for AI Team including generating detailed feature requests and task lists, scheduling against milestones, setting acceptance criteria and providing detailed feedback and approvals for character designs.
• Owned eight creature designs from concept to current alpha state. Tasked engineering, animation, and effects.
• Designed and implemented melee combat and traversal for third person PVP combat.

Jan 2013 – Aug 2014 · 1 yr 7 mos · Austin, Texas Area

• Hunt: Horrors of the Guilded Age
• Worked on a small team that designed a unique level/asset randomization system.
• Designed and built multiple enemies including the hammer-wielding enemy seen in Hunt's E3 demo.
• Helped design and implement multiple unannounced mission types.
• Designed and scripted a variety of gameplay objects including doors, interactive objects, unannounced equippable items, traps and events.
• Worked with programmers to develop a system for dynamic item spawning.
• Designed and built levels to support our diverse mission types.

Jul 2012 – Jan 2013 · 6 mos

• Oversaw six dungeons from paper maps to ship quality for Darksiders II.
• Scripted a wide variety of puzzles and events.
• Scripted the behavior for Karn, an NPC companion that travels with Death throughout Darksiders II’s largest dungeon, The Foundry.
• Worked on resource management in most levels of Darksiders II.
• Became a major source for technical information regarding Vigil’s proprietary visual and text scripting languages. Proposed detailed technical requests from Programming.
• Designed systems and scripted events for an unannounced title.
• Trained incoming designers on Vigil’s proprietary tools and 3D Studio Max

Jun 2010 – Jul 2012 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• I was responsible for bringing levels from paper maps to ship quality on Darksiders II.

Nov 2008 – May 2010 · 1 yr 6 mos

• I reported new bugs found on Darksiders and verified that old bugs had been fixed. I also worked with our publisher and their QA process.

Nov 2007 – Mar 2008 · 4 mos

• At this position, I learned how to write database programs, web scripts and web interfaces for the university using a variety of proprietary languages.