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I began my career in the gaming industry in 2005 at Activision Publishing in Santa Monica. During my six-year tenure there, I served in several roles ranging from QA Tester to Microsoft TRG Project Lead on a total of 52 titles. This includes project lead experience on franchises such as Guitar Hero, DJ Hero, and Call of Duty. I joined Blizzard Entertainment in November of 2010, and after a brief stint as a QA Lead, I became a Game Producer on the World of Warcraft development where I remained until 2018. In June of 2018 I joined Respawn Entertainment as a Producer on Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order. After hitting our internal lock in August of 2019, I accepted a position at Sony Santa Monica studio as a Producer III on the new God of War, which I held for just over a year and a half before joining Microsoft's "The Initiative" for a brief period to work on Perfect Dark. As of 2022, I am currently hold the title of Manager, Game Production at Riot Games working on Valorant.
Today, I am a certified Project Management Professional with over seventeen years of experience working in the video game industry spanning across six companies, Riot Games, The Initiative, Sony Santa Monica Studio, Respawn Entertainment, Blizzard Entertainment and Activision. I am also credited on over 60 individual game titles. This includes over twelve years of project management and team leadership tenure, of which ten years have been spent in a game production role. As a Game Production Manager on the Valorant development team, I currently manage the gameplay team. Duties include people management of junior producers, overseeing high level team initiatives such as prioritizing, goal setting, and product calls. Previous Game Producer tenure at Respawn Entertainment and Santa Monica Studio includes collaborating with developers on multiple cross-discipline strike teams, bringing a feature from prototype to alpha. Lastly, owning outsourcing pipelines for cinematic sound design, foley, and visual effects. This includes working hand in hand with the amazing Ben Burtt on the vocalizations of BD-1! Additional tenure includes eight years’ experience managing the World of Warcraft sound design team, music composers, the voice over (VO) pipeline, and working directly with the core development and production teams to ensure all audio, music, VO, and localization pipelines flowed smoothly. Finally, working with the World of Warcraft server and automation engineering teams. |
Furthermore, I previously served as the Audio Production Lead on Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, where I fully managed our music contracts as well as the sound design team and coordinated several VO sessions. All my work proficiency is supplemented by my education from UC, Irvine’s Project Management certification program as well as my Bachelor's of Science in Business with a specialization in Project Management. As a passionate producer/project manager, being a part of a project’s creative process from start to finish, and witnessing it all come together at the end is not only amazing, but something I truly geek out about.
Along with my career accomplishments, I have always considered myself a hardcore and passionate gamer; owning a game collection spanning several generations and including over two-thousand games. In addition to gaming, I've been studying martial arts since the age of 15, and currently hold the rank of Master in the art of Kung Fu San Soo. Other hobbies include airsoft, archery, riding motorcycles, collecting action figures, and watching anime.
Along with my career accomplishments, I have always considered myself a hardcore and passionate gamer; owning a game collection spanning several generations and including over two-thousand games. In addition to gaming, I've been studying martial arts since the age of 15, and currently hold the rank of Master in the art of Kung Fu San Soo. Other hobbies include airsoft, archery, riding motorcycles, collecting action figures, and watching anime.
