Amazon
Creative Director - Amazon Lumberyard
As Creative Director on the Demos and Samples Team for Lumberyard, I defined and drove the creative direction for all our demos and samples. These demos and samples showcased the power and possibilities of the Lumberyard game engine, the results of which can be seen here.
December 2014 - March 2015
Senior Game Designer - Amazon Game Studios
As Senior Game Designer on the publishing team, I oversaw design quality for games we were publishing. This included mentorship, design direction, and as-needed game redesign for each developer that I worked with. My role also included review of new proposals, strategy planning on future games, and working with Marketing to help message the gameplay experiences of the games we released.
March 2015 - October 2019
Getting Started Guide
Senior Product Manager - Amazon Lumberyard
As Senior Product Manager on Lumberyard, I focused on the editor features as they related to game designers and level designers: which features needed improvements and which features were missing entirely. Additionally, I defined, designed and implemented the first tutorials to help customers get started using Lumberyard.
February 2014 - December 2014
Apollo Group
August 2013 - February 2014
Director of UX and Design Incubation
As Director of UX and Design Incubation, I worked in the new initiatives division of Apollo developing Ballon, their career education and training project. My role was to drive the creative direction of the website and improve the flow and customer experience. In addition, I was also tasked with incubating new ways to educate and train individuals looking to start new career paths.
Microsoft Game Studios
Senior Game Designer
As Senior Game Designer at Xbox, I worked in a wide range of groups and roles. My first three years involved incubation on new game concepts and technologies, which ultimately released as Kinect. I worked for internal studios developing new games and I worked in publishing shipping games created by hired developers. In every role, my responsibilities always focused on making great game experiences for players.
August 2007 - August 2013
Amaze Entertainment
October 1999 - August 2007
Pirates of the Caribbean II - PSP
Lemony Snicket - PC
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - PC
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - PC
Wild Thornberries - PS1
Lead Game Designer
As Lead Designer at Amaze my role was to drive the design direction of the game play experiences we created. My role required me to manage designers, level designers and, environment artists, and to help them grow their careers. I established production pipeline methods and defined design and visual quality expectations on the games we shipped. I worked with production to make sure we consistently delivered our milestones on time and to contracted expectations. Working with several important IP properties taught me the challenges of maintaining brands while pushing the game play experience to levels that made them fun and exciting for players.
Realtime Associates
Lead Artist
As Lead Artist I worked to define production pipeline processes for all visuals in each game I worked on. I managed our production artist for each game and helped them deliver games to the expected visual quality. I drove game design features as needed, as the studio didn’t have game designers, just artists, developers and producers