Work Experience

  • Texturing, 3d modeling, and designing AAA game spaces for co-op, singleplayer and multiplayer experiences.

  • Striking a balance between concept art and gameplay needs

  • Working across numerous departments and individuals to ensure map exceeds gameplay and visual bar

  • Ensuring level stakeholders are all on the same page by keeping communication constant and ongoing.

  • Working as middle management, or point person, attending high level meetings with directors and delegating feedback and concerns to other assigned builders

  • Participating in the interview process for new design candidates

  • Problem solving design and art issues. Making sure game designers and artistic vision are aligned.

 

Point Level Designer - Shadows of Evil
Setdressing and modeling numerous locations in the map, primarily the Theater District.

Activision - Treyarch

I started at Treyarch as an Associate Level Designer. After 6 months, I quickly became a mid-level designer and was trusted with numerous responsibilities, including overseeing many of the campaign and zombies content.

Currently I am working as a Point Level Designer, overseeing other work being done on the level, delegating tasks, and working very close to production and game directors to make sure the vision and design are delivered. I cannot say enough good things about this studio and this team

 

Work Experience

  • Designing and Prototyping numerous new weapons and vehicles

  • Tuning, polishing, and balancing all aspects of vehicle systems, including camera, health, weapons, effects, collision, and vehicle physics systems

  • Working closely with multiple departments in getting new assets into the game

  • Prototyping new ideas and functionality with 3d software and proprietary tools

  • Authoring physics and collision geometry for numerous assets

  • Kit-bashing the effects and particle systems to quickly get temp visual feedback on new weapons and ideas

  • Setting up and balancing all systems and subsystems for vehicle damage states, including separating geometry in Maya and using exported geometry to create new physics based damage pieces

  • Maintaining up to date vehicle documentary and vehicle specs for the team

  • Utilizing Maya to setup asset hard-points, regions, materials, and damage channels

  • Creating levels and generating unique assets with Maya / 3dsMax

Mantis Health Setup: Setting up the health and damage transfer between different regions for the first time after receiving the new rig from tech art.

Mantis Health Setup: Setting up the health and damage transfer between different regions for the first time after receiving the new rig from tech art.

Design Sketches for how the Assault Sphere could integrate with the other vehicles.

343 Industries

It was truly an honor to work alongside such great talent on such a huge franchise. Spending 3 years at Microsoft, I learned so much about game design, design psychology, and systems design.

Work Experience

  • Designing and putting together Stages 4,5 and 6.

  • White-boxing and paper mapping detailed level layouts

  • Setting up manual occlusion for the majority of the levels in Gamebryo Gamebryo.

  • Laying out fun and complex camera splines

  • 3d modeling and implementing art assets

  • Working closely with the art team in setting art direction and maintaining correct assets throughout the game.

  • Set-dressing all maps and bringing them to ship-able visual quality

During production, I had to figure out ways to utilize an unfamiliar engine, while laying out a fun an interesting spline for the rail, and set dressing the levels in a way to help sense of speed. I realized the having objects much closer to the camera really helped, so I balanced open and tight spaces. Gamebryo had an very steep learning curve, but I was able to design over half of the game's levels. which all ended up in the final product.

Not only was I responsible for designing the levels, I also planned out and paced the combat encounters. If that was not enough, I also manually occluded the levels to ensure GPU performance did not fall apart at any given time.

 

Work Experience

  • Taking ownership of all the game's 100+ vehicles

  • Tuning overall feel, which includes but is not limited to physics, health, damage, camera systems, and suspension

  • Designing and World Building using proprietary tools

  • Delivering high quality in-game screenshots, as well as recording high intensity gameplay footage for marketing needs

  • Prototyping new vehicle types and systems

 
In game, real time vehicle physics GUI. I got to work directly with the physics engineer to request parameters to help make our vehicles feel genuine. Mercenaries had over 100 vehicles to tune.

In game, real time vehicle physics GUI. I got to work directly with the physics engineer to request parameters to help make our vehicles feel genuine. Mercenaries had over 100 vehicles to tune.

Level Design for Death Race - Designing the layout and set dressing the map, including editing terrain and working with splines.

Level Design for Death Race - Designing the layout and set dressing the map, including editing terrain and working with splines.