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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts — S.M. Candidate, 2010,
Comparative Media Studies
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York — B.A., 2008, Computing & Information Science,
Game Design Concentration

Professional Experience

GAME DESIGNER, SILICON KNIGHTS, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Summer 2009

• Design duties included mechanics, combat, quest, interface, and AI.
• Maintained design documentation.
• Scripted AI, placed NPCs, and implemented pathing using the level editor.

• Performed thesis research on sensual immersion through graphical interfaces.
• Designed two games (Pax Pox, Moki Combat V2.0).
• Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Video Game Studies.
• Created and led a class about developing board game expansions.
• Created and led a class examining literal and metaphorical games of Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game.

• Organized and developed a game development curriculum for high school students (part-time).

• Summer 2006: Developed concept and designed first deliverable set of puzzles for Lure of the Labyrinth. Developed concept for a virtual tour game.
• Summer 2007: Designed additional new puzzles while polishing others. Improved gameplay elements.

• 4-person team, semester-long project.
• Proposal for an online dating site utilizing game-based interactions.
• Designed gameplay, wrote design documentation, and created site and game mock-ups.

• 7-person team, 3-month project.
• Pervasive live-action game for use at the Penny Arcade Expo.
• Conceptualized gameplay, wrote design documentation, and developed prototypes.

• Two alternate reality / live-action games developed, in part, for a fellow CMS student’s Master’s Thesis.
• Shadows was the initial small-scale effort testing mechanics. Civilité featured elaborate production, live events, and the entire MIT campus.
• Designed game mechanics, wrote design documentation, and ran the game.

• 5-person team, two semester project.
• Designed mechanics and interface as well as levels.
• Horseback action game with physics-based jousting combat.

• 4-person team, semester-long project.
• Organized team, planned the project, designed and wrote the game.
• Adventure-RPG game exploring a randomly generated galaxy with action mini-games.

• 5-person design team, with programming and art professionally outsourced.
• Conceptualized and prototyped puzzles, and wrote thorough design documents.
• An online puzzle adventure game, designed to promote math and literacy skills.

• 7-person team, semester-long project.
• Designed mechanics and levels, wrote the manual and co-wrote the story.
• Action-RPG where spells are cast through combinations of runes.

• 3-person team, semester-long project.
• Co-writer, co-designer, and sole programmer.
• Games explored themes including Aging, Sleep, and “Backwards.”

• 5-person team, semester-long project.
• Co-designer of mechanics and levels while primarily working as a programmer.
• Side-Scrolling Action-Platformer featuring a kumquat-throwing lemur.

• Applications: MS Office, iWork, Photoshop, Fireworks, Flash, Dreamweaver, Silicon Knights Editor (Unreal style)
• Programming Languages: Java, C, C++, C#, Actionscript, TorqueScript, XHTML, PHP, MySQL, Python
• Key Classes:

• • Computer Game Design, Experimental Game Design, Advanced Game Design
• • The Business of Games, Introduction to Video Game Studies, Casual Games
• • Human-Computer Interaction Design, Advanced HCI Design, Creative Writing, Narrative Writing
• • Computer Programming I and II, Intro and Intermediate Web Design & Programming

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