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Education

Bachelor of Science in Information Technology; Cum Laude
University of Cincinnati - Cincinnati, OH (9/2009 - 4/2014)

  • Awarded 1st place and $800 at the UCIT Expo 2014 for ‘Heroes of the Rift’ a mobile action game

  • Pioneered UC’s Game Development Track by defining courses and developing curriculum 

Experience

Production Lead

Level Up Village - Old Greenwich, CT (9/2015 - 12/2016)

  • Coordinated a team of 6 (designers, artists, educators) to successfully reach key milestones
  • Produced an educational tabletop RPG for students around the world
  • Provided support in terms of task tracking and collaboration methodologies
  • Aligned resource updates to ensure active management of scope
  • Developed a math, problem solving, and teamwork based curriculum supported by gameplay mechanics
  • Led a Global Video Game Design course between students in Austin and partner students in Pakistan

Game and Operations Analyst

Red Fox Insights - Austin, TX (10/2015 - 9/2016)
  • Orchestrated marketing campaigns involving content creation and targeting over 150 game brands
  • Managed schedules and blueprinting sessions for research projects
  • Identified trends within large data sets to better inform decisions about products and features
  • Designed surveys to extract actionable insights from gaming audiences for research reports
  • Tested functionality and accessibility of data-gathering tools and analytic reports dashboard

Player Experience

Kabam - Austin, TX (10/2014 - 1/2016)
  • Supported 4 games including iconic properties like Marvel, Star Wars, Fast & Furious and The Hobbit

  • Facilitated communication between the player community and the development team

  • Addressed over 70 player inquiries and game concerns regarding best-selling mobile games daily

  • Trained new hires by teaching team procedures, game management tools, and best practices

Technology Support

LPK - Cincinnati, OH (5/2013 - 10/2013)

  • Served as one of three technology support members with an IT to user ratio of 85 to 1

  • Monitored users in global locations including London, Geneva, Singapore, and Guangzhou

  • Championed tech support for large events held at LPK’s Brand Innovation Center

  • Streamlined planning and staging of a company-wide roll-out of Outlook for Mac

 

Quality Assurance

CIMx Software - Milford, OH (12/2011 - 12/2012)

  • Contributed to an Agile software development environment

  • Partnered with software engineers to find and describe issues within the product 

  • Accurately and descriptively submitted bug reports and reproduction steps

  • Collaborate with product owners to create and present live product demos

  • Used iterative strategies to create and complete test cases and regression suites

Technology Services / Web Hosting

Cengage Learning - Cincinnati, OH (1/2011 - 9/2011)

  • Managed dozens of virtual and physical servers

  • Accelerated deployment of staging code into production for clients and for internal projects

  • Implemented file sharing processes to empower sales engineers 

  • Physically installed several blade chassis and servers in the onsite data center

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