Experience

Amazon Games (June 2022 – Present)
Lead Content Designer
Authored narrative designs and built gameplay experiences in Unreal 5. Led teams creating and refining project pitches, world designs, and encounter scripting, using traditional and procedural content generation and LLM AI. Served as product owner for teams of local and remote writers, level designers, and quest designers.

Blizzard Entertainment (November 2020 – June 2022)
Narrative Designer
Guided teams during worldbuilding, character development, dialog scripts, and storyline documentation for Project Neptune (mobile World of Warcraft prequel). Contributed quest and narrative designs to the Dragonflight expansion.

Handyman Studios (January 2014 – January 2016, August 2018 – November 2020)
Lead Writer, Level Designer
Designed static and procedural levels for Edge of Space, along with all written content, including storylines, narrative design, branching dialog, quest text, and marketing materials. Assisted in prototyping new game concepts over three different game engines, including Unity, Unreal, and Roblox.

CCP Games (November 2009 – December 2013)
Content Designer, Level Designer
Created missions for EVE Online, including narrative content as well as game and level design elements. Maintained style guides. Contributed to other titles, including Dust 514 and World of Darkness Online.

Hi-Rez Studios (May 2006 – October 2009)
Creative Writer, Level Designer
Prototyped new maps and game features in Unreal 3 with extensive use of Kismet visual scripting. Wrote the story for Global Agenda. Returned in 2017 to write the background lore and character bios for Paladins.

White-Wolf Publishing, Onyx Path Publishing (2001 – 2018)
Freelance Writer
Contributed as a writer and game designer to tabletop RPG products, including the World of Darkness, Scarred Lands, and Expedition properties.

MMORPG.com (February 2006 – May 2006)
Contributing Columnist

Rapid Reality (February 2005 – October 2005)
Writer, Game Designer, Community Manager