I am a game designer, director, UX specialist, entrepreneur and video game industry veteran with a massive passion for building strong teams, efficient workflows and finding the fun in all things. In my current role, I’m a Game Director on an innovative new IP, AAA game in preproduction, driving a large team to build a quality, novel experience.

Previously, I built the creative vision, studio culture and sustainable growth of BlueBat from its inception through acquisition and beyond.

I’m looking for opportunities to work with people who share the values and passions that I do to make experiences for players that they will remember for their lifetime.

Skills & Qualifications

🎮 Game Design: Gameplay, systems, economies, player behaviour. From AAA levels, combat, missions and player experiences to free-to-play game economies and LiveOps features. I have experience in all spectrums of Game Design.

🖌️Creative: Graphic design, storytelling, art direction. I have a range of creative skills and experience, from graphic design, user interface and presentation layout, and interactive storytelling through visual and written mediums.

🖥️ Technical: Prototyping, learning, understanding. I have a passion for bringing vision to life. Leaning into my UI skills, I implement front-ends and gameplay MVPs using languages ranging from Unreal Blueprint to C# in Unity.

📣 Leadership:  Performance, mentorship, respect. I’m an experienced leader who sets teamwide vision, mentors for performance and drives for innovation from the smallest teams to large-scale organizations. I lead with empathy and have experience building diverse and inclusive teams.

📦Product Management: Business value, priorities, strategy. Working with customers and users, I navigated feedback and business priorities to set a vision that took BlueBat’s flagship product through production to launch and customer adoption.

📈 Production: Lean, agile and continuous improvement. I believe in empowering teams and striving for excellence through agile and lean methodologies, as popularized by my previous advisor Eric Ries. Build, measure, learn - repeat. Seek improvement on each iteration.

Experience

Timbre Games, Vancouver **

Lead Game Designer, Game Director

JAN 2022 - JULY 2023

• As the first Game Designer, I built Timbre’s design processes and working practices, and hired, managed and mentored its design team.
• Through hyper-iterative practices, I successfully led a new AAA game through prototype to greenlight and through preproduction.
• I laid the foundation of creative practices with a growing team, setting clear vision and creative constraints for everyone to work collaboratively.

Phoenix Labs, Vancouver

Lead Game Designer

JAN 2019 - JAN 2022