Summary
Product-focused game designer who has shipped two AAA titles on multiple platforms using Unreal 3. Team leader with full life-cycle experience from campaign planning to game writing, level design and outsourcing.
Work Experience
Game Designer Supervisor @ Sony Online Entertainment
June 2008 - PresentShipped DC Universe Online, an Action MMORPG for PS3 and PC platforms. Responsibilities were the following:
- Supervised multiple game design teams. Trained an 8 person team of entry-level game designers.
- Developed and managed the gameplay prop outsourcing pipeline. Developed level design processes.
- Wrote game lore, mission stories, and dialogue for a licensed product.
- Designed and developed NPCs, abilities, AI, cinematics, gameplay systems, missions and combat, including tuning.
- Used Unreal and Maya to design all major types of MMO gameplay spaces.
Game Designer @ Midway Studios Austin Inc.
May 2006 - June 2008Shipped Blacksite: Area 51 for PC, PS3, and XBox 360. Developed an unannounced open-city action title. Responsibilities were the following:
- Designed, implemented and optimized first person shooter and open city gameplay including worldbuilding, scripting, game writing and cinematics.
- Developed level construction processes and outsourcing pipelines. Prototyped game systems.
- Managed and trained a team of 10+ entry level game designers. Managed a small cross-disciplinary team from pre-production through product shipment.
- Created numerous game demos for international show circuits.
Education
The University of Texas at Austin
2001 - 2006- Bachelor of Fine Arts in Design, GPA 3.97
- The University of Texas Design Division Study Abroad, Milan, Italy
Skills
Graphic design tools
Illustration, print, web, animation.- Drawing
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- InDesign
- After Effects
- Flash 4
- Dreamweaver
Game design tools
Worldbuilding, scripting, production.- Unreal 3
- Database scripting
- Gambit editors
- Kismet visual scripting
- TFS
- Maya