Oct 2023 – Oct 2024 · 1 yr

• Design Director for a new original-IP AAA game
• Worked with Creative Director to transform narrative and emotional goals into compelling gameplay
• Articulated an innovative design vision through regular team communication and documentation
• Built early game prototypes in Unreal Engine 5 to validate our design concepts in software
• Hired a world-class design team

Sep 2021 – Sep 2023 · 2 yrs · Irvine, California, United States

• Design lead for the ~80 person Overwatch 2 core gameplay team, responsible for delivering new heroes, maps, and modes
• Managed and mentored other design leads
• Led the 15-person Ecologies team to develop exciting, characterful, and challenging AI units and factions for the OW2 PVE game

Aug 2019 – Aug 2021 · 2 yrs · Cambridge, United Kingdom

• Led a 35-person team for an unannounced action RPG project
• Responsible for game vision, USPs, and pillars
• Prototyped new game mechanics for future projects in Unreal 5

Mar 2016 – Mar 2019 · 3 yrs · Bellevue, WA

• Led the ~70 person campaign team for Destiny 2, defining the story and creative vision for the "Red War"
• Led a small team to prototype a new PvPvE mode for Destiny 2

Oct 2015 – Dec 2017 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bellevue, WA

• Led and managed the 11-person Destiny raid team during the production of "Crota's End," "Kingsfall," "Wrath of the Machine," and "Leviathan"
• Designed an implemented multiple encounters and raid bosses, including The Abyss, Crota, Oryx, and the Siege Engine

Jul 2013 – Oct 2015 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bellevue, WA

• Designed and implemented encounters for Destiny's first raid, "Vault of Glass," including The Templar, Gorgons, and Atheon

Oct 2009 – Jun 2013 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Redwood City

• Led a 6-person content team for both RIFT its first expansion: Storm Legion; we created the majority of the quest content as well as multiple small-team raids
• Co-founded an incubation project team consisting of 15 developers; we built the prototype of a melee-focused, team-based arena PVP game with a roster of colorful sci-fantasy heroes

Aug 2008 – Sep 2009 · 1 yr 1 mo · Aliso Viejo, California, United States

• Designed quest content, wrote quest text, and used proprietary scripting language and tools for Wildstar
• Designed several systems for the game, including quest-object interactions (rhythm tap, press-and-hold, etc.) and photography

Feb 2006 – Jun 2008 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

• Content/Systems Designer for Pirates of the Burning Sea, a massive multiplayer online game published by Sony Online Entertainment
• Wrote, designed, and implemented the "Single-Player Story Arc" experience as well as numerous other quests
• Designed and implemented the only 6-player ship-based PVE raid
• Balanced the ship weapons and mods