Game
Development Work Experience

• Used Excel to Balance data for several xwars games for Facebook
• Integrated art assets into game pipeline
• Used python scripts to import and diff game data from Excel to Facebook
• Suggested design changes and discussed implementation
  • Diva Life (Facebook)
  • Yakuza Lords (Facebook)
  • Band of Heroes (Facebook)
  • Champions Online (Facebook)
  • Dante's Inferno (Facebook)

• Designed, laid out and built web site for web-based game
• Used Ruby on Rails to script dynamic, interactive web site
• Took art assets from .psd to on-page .gif, .png and .jpg formats
• Created hundreds of weapons and armor for a one-on-one asynchronous combat game
• Balanced item attributes and character abilities
• Designed, laid out and built web site for web-based game
  • Legends of Kaos

• Used XML and Lua to script multiple installments of an episodic 3rd person action adventure game
• Scripted simple object manipulation puzzles using Lua
• Implemented numerous object instances with various interactions
• Balanced many AI interactions between entities
• Worked closely with professional comedy writers, audio designers and artists to create appropriate content
• Maintained database of all speech/text for game, editing thousands of lines of text and verifying quality of audio
• Maintained dictionary of phoneme/viseme definitions for lip sync data
  • Rat Race (PS3, PC) [Unpublished] – Designer

• Worked on six shipped Zoo Tycoon products in five years that have sold a combined total of over 3.6 million units.
• Managed design team efforts on several projects
• Wrote design documents for multiple projects
• Coordinated with artists and engineers as design lead or co-lead
• Worked closely with the publisher on game design, balancing, and testing
• Designed game systems and content
• Implemented AI behaviors and entity definition data for over 100 unit types
• Conducted in-depth research on animals, dinosaurs, zoos, animal training, etc.
• Worked on multiple projects at once, worked on demos and patches
  • Zoo Tycoon 2: Marine Mania (PC) – Lead Designer
  • Zoo Tycoon 2: Endangered Species (PC) – Game Designer
  • Zoo Tycoon 2 (PC) – Game Designer
  • Zoo Tycoon: Complete Collection (PC) – Lead Designer
    • Winner of the 2004 AIAS Computer Family Title of the Year
  • Zoo Tycoon: Marine Mania (PC) – Co-Lead Designer
  • Zoo Tycoon: Dino Digs (PC) – Co-Lead Designer
  • Zoo Tycoon (PC) – Game Designer

• Tested web sites for functionality and compatibility with various browsers and platforms
• Tested games for video and audio hardware compatibility
• Tested applications for proper functionality
• Familiarized with many different operating systems and browsers
  • RC Copter Challenge (PS2)
  • Lego: Alpha Team (PC)

• Regressed game patches against reported issues
• Tested functionality and multiplayer/network stability of games
• Suggested AI behavior and game balancing for games
• Tested foreign language versions of games for proper language content
  • Warhammer 40,000: Rites of War (PC)
  • Close Combat III: The Russian Front (PC)
  • Petz 4 (PC)
  • Dogz 4 (PC)
  • Catz 4 (PC)

• Suggested play balancing and design changes
• Tested game patches against reported issues
• Tested foreign language releases for proper language content
• Tested game functionality and compatibility with video and audio hardware
  • Mechwarrior 3: Pirate’s Moon (PC)
  • Mechwarrior 3 (PC)
  • The Next Tetris (PC)

Other Work Experience

• Created multiple restores of various PCs with Norton Ghost
• Tested software in Spanish, Portuguese and Italian for content and functionality
• Tested software on various Apple Macintosh computers
• Entered and updated issues using TeamTrack

• Proofed data within an XML environment
• Performed quality assurance reviews on data in various stages of conversion to XML
• Manipulated data in many formats including Excel, Access, XML Writer and MS XML Notepad

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Education

Hobbies & Interests