Experience

• Owned cinematic engineering; supporting procedural and scripted content
• Designed and created an in-game live editor tool and audition tool for cinematic content
• Collaborated with content creators in creating and expanding features
• Worked with other engineers to improve workflow for the team
• Served as PC-player advocate in platform and feature planning

• Member of a two-person engineering team under the Narrative Director, creating new systems and improving existing ones
  • Generating dynamic and seamless transitions into and out of cinematics
  • Designing and creating a method of diegetic feedback for players
  • Implementing haptic feedback support for cinematics
  • Enabling designer control over player restrictions
• Collaborating with multiple teams to flesh out narrative scripting interfaces
• Integrating recording systems of cinematics for review, quality assurance, and marketing
• Creating narrative behaviors specific to cooperative play

• Championed increased accessibility in player created waypoints
• Supported designer efforts with new features including scriptable actions and player skills
• Major contributor to building a fully native macOS client
• Collaborated with designers to further game concepts and designs
• Interacted frequently with community managers to interpret customer reported issues
• Primary participant in public relations to players from the engine team
• Designed and developed saving and loading gameplay systems
• Built a tool to facilitate work in Houdini -- created bounding boxes around geometry
• Updated character selection screen themed around the game's first expansion
• Designed and built a character skill based on concept animation

• Developed new and updated existing UI elements for various features
• Built restriction logic for the Play For Free feature set

Education