Game Designer

• Designed and built TouchFish tutorial using proprietary scripting tools
• Designed, implemented, and balanced TouchFish economies and player progression, including over 1000 purchasable assets
• Designed and balanced 90 levels for physics based and gesture matching mini-games
• Worked with other designers to build prototypes in Unity
• Created 10 story mission threads within TouchFish

Playstation Home Operations Specialist

• Responsible for publishing content to PS Home, including front page trailers and other content
• Composited advertisement posters, backgrounds, and thumbnail images for PS Home
• Responsible for curating PS Home storefronts involving hundreds of additions per week
• Helped internal and external developers set up PS Home virtual space storefronts and media feeds

Game Designer

• Worked on an unannounced casual title for the Nintendo Wii, similar to Pilot Wings, using a proprietary toolset
• Designed and implemented many different missions and mission types
• Drove documentation for new mission types

Game Design Intern

• Created and implemented a pickup plan for Death Jr. Root of Evil for Nintendo Wii
• Designed two boss encounters for 1942 Joint Strike, Bodan and Bodan Epsilon, creating innovative weaponry that changed depending on the approach
• Fixed bugs such as adjusting trigger volumes, moving platform sequence timing updates, and kill triggers

Game Tester

• Unity 3D 4.5+
• uSequencer in Unity
• Playmaker Visual Scripting in Unity
• Excel: Building player progression and economy models
• Perforce: Used at Backbone Entertainment, Factor 5, and TouchFactor
• Concept development using Photoshop & Illustrator
• JIRA
• Proficient with Maya for object placement
• C/C++: I’ve taken a few programming courses through college
• Crafting Board Games

Cogswell Polytechnical

Sunnyvale, CA

Bachelor’s of Science in Digital Arts Engineering

Graduated: May 2008

Penn State Behrend

Erie, PA

Associate of Science in Electrical Engineering Technology

Graduated: May 2004