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Achievements

  • Raised over $145k via Kickstarter to fund development of Aegis Defenders which launched on Feb 8, 2018.
  • Nominated for one of the top 10 Gamesauce Global Game Jam Game in 2011 for The Ultimate Celebration.
  • Started and ran an independent ramen business for 3 months known as RamenMan making late night runs for the hungry RIT students.

Experience

Skydance Interactive
Game Producer | January 2022 – Current


TriggerXR
Producer | May 2017 – January 2022

  • Create and manage multiple schedules, user stories, risk mitigation plans, and budget tracking to ensure delivery and milestones are met to ensure confidence from the clients.
  • Lead digital projects including AR and VR applications and websites with an average budget of $500k+ with a team of developers, designers, 3D artists and QA testers through the entire project life cycle using agile development methodologies. 
  • Lead and spearheaded R&D and Analytics initatives developing cutting edge technologies, techniques and practices. 
  • Key Projects: Verizon AR Pro, Toy Story 4 AR Module, TIME Immersive Apollo 11 & Amazon Rain Forest, Spider-Man: Far From Home AR App, The Walking Dead: Encounter AR

Disney ABC Television Group
Product Development Intern | September 2015 – December 2015

  •  Partnered with team members to create the “pitch deck” for the creative director, successfully gaining buy-in to green light the Lion Guard project.
  • Advised on concepts, engagement, and usability for a variety of Disney Channel/XD/Junior shows such as Doc McSuffins.
  • Led playtesting sessions with children (1-6 years old) to optimize UI design, game mechanics, and ensure an intuitive experience that aligned with audience perceptions of brand and characters.
  • Key Projects: The Lion Guard: Protectors of the Pridelands, Disney Junior: Connect & Play, Doc McStuffins: Toy Hospital

Education

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, CA | 2012 – 2015
Master of Fine Arts
Interactive Media & Games – GPA: 3.77
– USC Harold Lloyd Foundation Award

Rochester Institute of Technology

Rochester, NY | 2008 – 2012
Bachelor of Science Highest Honors
Game Design & Development – GPA: 3.93
Minor in Japanese Language & Culture, Entrepreneurship
– RIT Honors Scholarship
– RIT Deans List All Quarters
– RIT Presidential Scholarship
– RIT Outstanding Undergraduate Scholar
– Alpha Sigma Lambda Honorary Society

Related Course Work

Production
  • Advance Game Project 1,2 – USC
  • Interactive Experience and World Design – USC
  • Imagineering Design Course – USC
  • Master’s Thesis – USC
Game Design
  • Game Design Graduate Course – RIT
  • Game Design and Development 1,2 – RIT
  • Design for Interactive Media – USC
  • Survey of Interactive Media – USC
  • Experimental Game Topics – USC
  • Introduction to Interactive Writing – USC
  • Interactive Experience and World Design – USC
Programming
  • Computer Science 1,2,3 (RAPT Sequence) – RIT
  • Introduction to Visual C++ for Programmers – RIT
  • Data Structures 1,2 – RIT
  • Introduction to Database – RIT
  • Interactive Digital Media – RIT
  • Programming for Digital Media – RIT
  • Webdesign and Implementation – RIT
  • Network Essentials – RIT
  • Human Computer Interaction 1: Human Factors – RIT
  • Fundamentals of Game Design and Development 1,2 – RIT
Audio
  • Introduction to Digital Audio Production – RIT
Art
  • 2D Animation for Interactive Media – RIT
  • 3D Modeling and Animation – RIT
  • Experiments in Interactivity 1,2 – USC
  • Fundamentals of Animation – USC
  • Visual Expression – USC
Math and Science
  • Discrete Mathematics for Technologist 1,2 – RIT
  • Analytic Geometry – RIT
  • Data Analysis 2 (1 credited through AP Statistics) – RIT
  • College Physics 1,2 – RIT
  • Research Methodologies – USC

Other Course Work

Business
  • Principles of Microeconomics – RIT
  • Principles of Marketing – RIT
  • Entrepreneurship – RIT
  • Digital Entrepreneurship – RIT
  • Organizational Behavior – RIT
  • Financial Accounting – RIT
  • Business of Interactive Media – USC
Language and Culture
  • Beginning Japanese 1,2,3 – RIT
  • Intermediate Japanese 1,2,3 – RIT
  • Introduction to Japanese Culture – RIT
Liberal Arts
  • Visual Arts: Anime – RIT
  • Honors Music Of the Spheres – RIT
  • Honors Psychology – RIT
  • Introduction to Ethics – RIT
  • Writing Seminar – RIT
  • Cinematic Arts Seminar – USC
  • Interactive Media Seminar – USC

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