CV
Career History
My Service in the United States Navy ended in December 2016. Highly motivated to leverage four years of achievements from my Naval career into providing dedicated service to any team. Qualifications include a BA in Video Game Design; comprehensive field training; and extensive experience in management, directing personnel services, leaded a team, and working in a team environment.
Creative Director - Project Synesthete
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Developing an AR Synesthesia Experience with Niantic’s Lightship platform in order to show the world what those who have Synesthete’s experience everyday.
April 2020 - Present
Creative Director - Project Icarus
December 2020 - Present
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Managing a team of 12 people who are passionately working on a project in our free time to bring our vision of a game to the world.
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Developer of the narrative, lore, level design, player mechanics, game mechanics, creature design/mechanics, and puzzle design
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Utilizing and creating blueprint functionalities within Unreal, level building within Unreal, creating lighting sources, and creating scripted events
Creative Director - The Lodge
September 2020 – December 2020
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Manage a team of 30 students to create, develop, build, and ship an entire vertical slice in a matter of 4 months. Served as the head of all of the separate teams and ensured timely completion of tasks, designed the narrative, and ensured the vertical slice was completed.
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Utilizing and creating blueprint functionalities within Unreal, level building within Unreal, creating lighting sources, creating scripted events, live editing and writing of dialogue and clues based on QA feedback, quality assurance of the game on a daily basis, problem solving and fixing visual coding, and overall functionality management of the game itself
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Uploaded, and maintain the Steamworks side of the Steam release of our game.
BoxLunch Store Manager
February 2019 - March 2020
I was the Store Manager of BoxLunch up until the Pandemic hit in 2020. Became Store Manager for the Newpark Mall BoxLunch and within six months turned the store from a negative contribution to the company into one with positive sales.
GameStop Store Manager
October 2017 - January 2019
Took over as Store Manager for Fremont Hub GameStop and within six months turned the store from a negative contribution to the company into one with positive sales and achieved Prestige status in my first quarter as manager.
Petty Officer
January 2014 - December 2016
Served as a Petty Officer, in service to the United States Navy ensuring ongoing support for the continuous efforts of the Global War on Terrorism. I was selected for many leadership and management positions and given command of 21 personnel, continually given tasks above and beyond the level of every paygrade earned throughout my career in the service.
Student
September 2017 - April 2021
I studied Video Game Design with an emphasis in Writing at the University of Silicon Valley. I studied in-depth game design techniques with training in everything from Unreal Engine to narrative design methods. While at University I was given the prestigious honor of being Creative Director of a team of students making a game. We shipped our title, The Lodge, on Steam.