Game
Technical
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Let's Journey Together
Well met, good travelers! I am truly excited to have you as my guests. I've been helping software teams grow and deliver quality products for almost 15 years. I'd love your product to be next.
I graduated from the University of Alabama (ROLL TIDE!) and am currently pursuing a degree in Game Design and Development from the Savannah College of Art and Design.
When I'm not making games I love spending time with my family, playing games, listening and playing music, and getting outdoors in the beautiful Pacific Northwest.
I have been in the development game for 15 years now at many different levels from individual contributor, to project manager, producer, and engineering manager. I have built and mentored many excellent teams focused on the values: craftsmanship, passion, passion, communication, collaboration, dependability, and delivery.
I love working as the glue for our projects and filling in the blanks as a generalist wherever needed. In the past this meant I worked on developing complex technical solutions around choosing a new chat platform serving 20 million live users or researching the infrastructure needed for a large-scale rental mobile app.
For over a decade I have been committed to lead my teams by empowerment and I fully embrace the servant leadership methodology. Building highly-performant teams is where I excel and my super power is being someone people like to work with not only on my team but also my partners company-wide.
Saturday Morning Studio
We're working on a next gen JRPG inspired by the classics and the Saturday Morning Cartoon era. I joined at the director level to build a new game studio from the ground up, establishing core development processes, production pipelines, and team structure while scaling a cross-functional team of 15+ across engineering, design, art, and production. Working in Unreal Engine 5, I partnered closely with the team to define technical and creative execution standards from day one.
While there, I headed up the design of end-to-end game development workflows covering gameplay systems, combat mechanics, content pipelines, QA, and live operations, enabling rapid iteration and predictable delivery. I fostered collaboration between game developers, artists, and animators, technical designers, and engineers while expanding team capabilities to support increasingly complex systems and features.
I led recruiting across all disciplines and managed day-to-day operations between gameplay, engine, backend, art, and production teams, ensuring alignment from prototype through live service. In parallel, I worked with external partners and stakeholders to translate creative vision and performance data into clear product roadmaps with measurable KPIs, keeping development aligned with long-term studio and product goals.
Sony PlayStation Mobile
I joined to mentor and lead gameplay engineering and multiplayer backend teams, supporting the development of a large-scale, real-time mobile action title for PlayStation built on Unreal Engine.
As a founding member of PlayStation’s mobile division, I helped establish engineering standards, performance targets, and live-service delivery practices, ensuring PlayStation-quality gameplay, networking reliability, and scalable player experiences across a global audience.
I led and scaled teams of managers, gameplay programmers, backend engineers, and co-development partners, overseeing architecture, budgeting, and execution across multiplayer infrastructure (Amazon GameLift, FleetIQ), player economy and progression systems, backend services, build pipelines, and performance optimization.
Borderlands: Echovision Live
My team build an exciting upcoming massively interactive live event. I hired and led the team building out the interactive portion and integrating Genvid's proprietary SDK to broadcast gameplay, minigames, chat, and more.
I handled hiring for devs, QA, project manager, and producers, driving early best practices, coaching, delivering milestones, and also filling in on project management and production.
We worked on minigames, avatar builders, in-app currency purchasing, spending and balancing, and season pass!
Massively Multiplayer Live Platform
My team collaborated on the next iteration of Genvid's MILE. Our team assisted in porting over our work on authentication, chat, moderation, and custom avatar builders.
We also researched and built out the mobile asset delivery and production pipeline to the app stores. Our solution got Silent Hill up and running in iOS and Android apps.
Our work on in-game currency earning, spending, and balance was adopted as well.
Featured Project
Sports Mgmt App
Client needed work on their sports management system. I led the team working on the backend building out technical solutions to help them track and schedule games and events. The system we worked on was crucial to automated the signup and vetting process and helping to organize the background checks for prospects.
Featured Project
Teaching Game App
Over the summer 2020, client was in desperate need to build a new teaching delivery system for students returning to school in the fall but these students and teachers would be interacting remotely due to the COVID lockdowns. These students are special needs and would be remotely learning for the first time. There was a tight deadline and I managed the team responsible for building their remote interactive delivery game system where teachers could share content during live instruction, videos, games, and more with students to interact directly in the game. We also built the teacher administration backend where they could customize academic plans for each student, create groups of students, and manage their game progress.
...pre-games projects
| Amazon Tracking App | ||
| 2019 | Run AMZ | $1mil+ |
| Engineering Mgmt, Project Mgmt, Product Owner, Client Account Mgmt, Design, React, AWS, Adobe XD | ||
| Student Mgmt System | ||
| 2019 | STAR Autism Support | $2mil+ |
| Engineering Mgmt, Producer, Client Account Mgmt, Project Mgmt, PHP | ||
| Dream Visualization and Search App | ||
| 2019 | Sleep & Dream Database | $500k |
| Engineering Mgmt, Producer, Project Mgmt, Client Account Mgmt, React, Elasticsearch, Figma | ||
| Legal Mgmt App | ||
| 2019 | File Eviction | $400k+ |
| Production, Developer, Project Mgmt, Design, Adobe XD, PHP | ||
| Vendor Ordering and Mgmt System | ||
| 2019 | Synergy | $100k |
| Production, Developer, Design, Project Mgmt, Adobe XD, PHP | ||
| Space Corporate Website | ||
| 2019 | Voyager | $50k |
| Designer, Project Mgmt, Developer, PHP, Adobe XD, CMS | ||
| Heavy Equipment Rental App | ||
| 2019 | Worldwide Rental Services | $1mil+ |
| Engineering Mgmt, Product Owner, Project Mgmt, Design, React, Adobe XD | ||
| Mobile Equipment Mgmt App | ||
| 2019 | Worldwide Machinery | $2mil+ |
| Mobile, Engineering Mgmt, Project Mgmt, Product Owner, React, Adobe XD | ||
| Corporate ERP | ||
| 2018 | Worldwide Machinery | $1mil+ |
| Software Mgmt, Project Mgmt, Product Owner, React, Adobe XD, C#, MSSQL | ||
| Rental Ecommerce Website | ||
| 2018 | Worldwide Machinery | $500k |
| Software Mgmt, Project Mgmt, Product Owner, React, Adobe XD | ||
| Customer Portal | ||
| 2017 | Worldwide Machinery | $300k |
| Engineering Mgmt, Project Mgmt, Product Owner, Design, React, Adobe XD | ||
| Legacy ERP | ||
| 2017 | Worldwide Machinery | $1mil+ |
| Engineering Mgmt, Project Mgmt, Product Owner, Design, Adobe XD, C#, .Net, MSSQL | ||
| Elephante ERP | ||
| 2016 | Elephante LLC | $500k |
| Engineering Mgmt, Project Mgmt, Product Owner, Python, Javascript, Adobe Illustrator | ||
| Distributor Portal | ||
| 2014 | United Mobile Solutions | $500k |
| Engineering Mgmt, Project Mgmt, Product Owner, Designer, Developer, CMS, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, HTML/CSS, PHP | ||
| Billing Mgmt App | ||
| 2013 | HostGator | $10mil+ |
| Developer, Designer, Adobe Fireworks, Perl, Javascript, HTML/CSS | ||
| Telecommunications App | ||
| 2012 | Next-G Mobile | $500k |
| Developer, Designer, Creative Mgmt, Project Mgmt, Product Owner, Adobe Illustrator, Python, HTML/CSS | ||
| Telecommunications Ecommerce Site | ||
| 2012 | Next-G Mobile | $500k |
| Developer, Designer, Creative Mgmt, Project Mgmt, Product Owner, Adobe Photoshop, HTML/CSS, Python | ||
| Year | Project | Company | Role(s) | Budget |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Amazon Tracking App | Run AMZ | Engineering Mgmt, Project Mgmt, Product Owner, Client Account Mgmt, Design, React, AWS, Adobe XD | $1mil+ |
| 2019 | Student Mgmt System | STAR Autism Support | Engineering Mgmt, Producer, Client Account Mgmt, Project Mgmt, PHP | $2mil+ |
| 2019 | Dream Visualization and Search App | Sleep & Dream Database | Engineering Mgmt, Producer, Project Mgmt, Client Account Mgmt, React, Elasticsearch, Figma | $500k |
| 2019 | Legal Mgmt App | File Eviction | Production, Developer, Project Mgmt, Design, Adobe XD, PHP | $400k+ |
| 2019 | Vendor Ordering and Mgmt System | Synergy | Production, Developer, Design, Project Mgmt, Adobe XD, PHP | $100k |
| 2019 | Space Corporate Website | Voyager | Designer, Project Mgmt, Developer, PHP, Adobe XD, CMS | $50k |
| 2019 | Heavy Equipment Rental App | Worldwide Rental Services | Engineering Mgmt, Product Owner, Project Mgmt, Design, React, Adobe XD | $1mil+ |
| 2019 | Mobile Equipment Mgmt App | Worldwide Machinery | Mobile, Engineering Mgmt, Project Mgmt, Product Owner, React, Adobe XD | $2mil+ |
| 2018 | Corporate ERP | Worldwide Machinery | Software Mgmt, Project Mgmt, Product Owner, React, Adobe XD, C#, MSSQL | $1mil+ |
| 2018 | Rental Ecommerce Website | Worldwide Machinery | Software Mgmt, Project Mgmt, Product Owner, React, Adobe XD | $500k |
| 2017 | Customer Portal | Worldwide Machinery | Engineering Mgmt, Project Mgmt, Product Owner, Design, React, Adobe XD | $300k |
| 2017 | Legacy ERP | Worldwide Machinery | Engineering Mgmt, Project Mgmt, Product Owner, Design, Adobe XD, C#, .Net, MSSQL | $1mil+ |
| 2016 | Elephante ERP | Elephante LLC | Engineering Mgmt, Project Mgmt, Product Owner, Python, Javascript, Adobe Illustrator | $500k |
| 2014 | Distributor Portal | United Mobile Solutions | Engineering Mgmt, Project Mgmt, Product Owner, Designer, Developer, CMS, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, HTML/CSS, PHP | $500k |
| 2013 | Billing Mgmt App | HostGator | Developer, Designer, Adobe Fireworks, Perl, Javascript, HTML/CSS | $10mil+ |
| 2012 | Telecommunications App | Next-G Mobile | Developer, Designer, Creative Mgmt, Project Mgmt, Product Owner, Adobe Illustrator, Python, HTML/CSS | $500k |
| 2012 | Telecommunications Ecommerce Site | Next-G Mobile | Developer, Designer, Creative Mgmt, Project Mgmt, Product Owner, Adobe Photoshop, HTML/CSS, Python | $500k |
Toolkit & Skills
Designed with <3 in Adobe XD and built with React.
