Experience

ForwardXP

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Technical Designer

  • Feb 2023 - Present

• Senior Designer

  • May 2021 - Feb 2023



SMU Guildhall

• United States
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Assistant Clinical Professor

  • Mar 2018 - May 2021

• Lecturer, Level Design

  • Feb 2012 - Mar 2018



id Software

• Computer Games
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Designer/Scripter

  • Jun 2010 - Jan 2012

• Technical Producer

  • May 2010 - May 2011

• Associate Producer

  • Jun 2009 - May 2010



SMU Guildhall

• United States
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Producer/TeamLead/Lead Level Designer

  • Jan 2006 - Jun 2009

  (RECURRING POSITION)Producer/Customer on student team projects, mostly UT3 Multiplayer Mods. Take teams through all development stages (preproduction->production->release) over 3 months. Give feedback, critique, guidance on project direction, troubleshooting, team management, pretty much everything involved in a team game project.

• Lecturer of Level Design

  • Dec 2003 - Jun 2009

  Teach all aspects of singleplayer and multiplayer level creation for many different games (including Radiant (Quake4/Doom3/Quake3), UnrealEd (UT2004), Hammer (HL2), TES:Oblivion, Aurora (NWN)). Topics taught include: initial blueprints through gameplay design, BSP brush-building, scripting, lighting, particles, optimization, documentation, 3D modeling/unwrapping.

• Programmer/Designer

  • Apr 2007 - Sep 2007

  Worked on a Microsoft XNA/XBox360 project creating various 2D games in C# and .NET 2.0. Specifically I created a HUD system, inventory management/pickup system, controls system for both keyboard and controller, and other tasks.

• Producer/Team Leader

  • Jul 2006 - Oct 2006

  Ran a team of 11 students during a 3month internship created by Ritual Entertainment, creating a Multiplayer mod of Ritual's SiN Episodes. Reported to Producer at Ritual. Also created a multiplayer level for mod. Was still a fulltime teacher at The Guildhall during this project.