Columbia College Chicago – BA in Video Game Design                                  2007 – 2010

• Graduated with Honors

School of the Arts Institute of Chicago – Drawing/Painting                         2004 – 2005

• Received Merit Scholarship, Incentive Scholarship

Interlochen Arts Academy – Visual Arts                                                           2002 – 2004

• Independent design and analysis, conceptual testing and iteration
• Experience with both agile/iteration-focused design, and “Design Bible” pre-production development

• Lifetime of professional drawing, painting, sculpting, and printing training and practice
• Skilled with traditional media (graphite, charcoal, oils, etc.)
• Skilled with modern digital media (Photoshop and Painter)

 Programming

• C#: 3+ years, with Visual Studio
• XNA: 1 ½ years
• Unity 3D: 2+ years scripting with C# and Java
• Torque: 2 years

• Microsoft Word (including Shared Editing functions, styles and layout)
• Microsoft Excel (including programming, data referencing, names, formatting, and layout)
• Adobe Flash
• Adobe Illustrator
• Microsoft Project, Microsoft SharePoint
• Dreamweaver, PHP, various Web Design
• Customer Service
• Marketing, Public Relations
• Quality Control and Bug Testing
• Computer Hardware, including assembly and fundamental repair skills
• 5+ years working with Wacom Tablets, including current Cintiq displays

• Wrote the curriculum for a summer program to educate young students in Kodu, programming fundamentals, and game design
• Advertised the program, negotiated space rental with Catherine Cook School
• Educated a class of 11-14 students, aged 8 to 14 years.

• Producer: Managed schedule, milestones, budget, contacts, etc.
• Designer: Responsible for the streamlined and easy-to-play mechanics
• Artist: Created card art, box art, advertisement materials, all proofing
• Conducted the business aspects of the project
• Negotiated printing prices and contracts, distributor rates and contracts
• Managing orders for customers, shipping, customer relations
• Advertising, and appealing to distributors, retailers, and gamers

• Founded the project-based company to find diverse talent and bring them together to create a wide range of entertainment projects
• Public Relations: Managing social media presences and community engagement
• Website Work: Building websites, hosting SVN repositories, bug repositories, shared wikis and forums for multiple projects
• Filled many roles: Business Manager, Team Leader, Accounting, Marketing, etc.

• Documentation Lead: revised old systems to make critical scripting data immediately apparent and accessible, while keeping 10 designers aware of all the changes made
• Lead QA: Revised testing procedure for Senior Project collected testing information in half the time, with more accurate and relevant information
• Additional Scripting and Design work

 Depths                                            2010

• XNA “predator/prey” 360/PC game
• Producer, Designer
• Team of 5

• XNA “Catch” 360/PC game
• Producer, Designer, Artist
• Team of 4

 Sir Tet                                             2010

• XNA “Tetris gameplay remix” 360/PC game
• Producer, Co-Designer, Technical Artist
• Team of 6

• Accessible Tactical Board Game
• Co-Creator
• Team of 2

Published Artwork