Game Experience   

Son of Ithaca - Single player Half-life 2 project                                                               July - September 2007

Level Designer

• Served as primary scripter on a team of 13 (1 Game Designer, 4 Level Designers, 4 Programmers and 4 Artists)
  • Carried out scripting passes on all four levels
  • Primary contact between Level Designers and Programmers
• Designed and built final level and boss battle for game using numerous scripting elements
• Created documents for project integration
• Imported 20 art assets: Static messes, models, textures, and blended textures.
• Created and maintained project Sandbox

The Sharpest Lives - Single player Half-life 2 Individual Project                                       July - September 2007

Level Designer

• Created Noir/Private Investigator style story driven level
• Created Level Design Document, complete with gameplay sketches and producer pitch
• Created BSP, lighting, and scripted events
• Created custom gameplay - scripted stealth puzzles, not normally supported in Half-life 2
• Created custom sounds - oversaw voice actors and recording  

Unannounced Title - Walker Boys Studio, Inc.                                                                 January - March 2007

Level Designer (Internship)

• Researched and created documents for the Glest 2.0.0 engine for other employees to use
• Created and revised game’s file structure
• Conducted historical research for in game documentation for game’s civilizations, units and buildings
• Imported and tested art assets

Falcon 5 - Single player Quake 4 Directed Focus Study Project.                            September - December 2006

Level Designer

• Created story-driven level based on events from Quake 4
• Created Level Design Document, complete with gameplay sketches and producer pitch
• Created BSP, lighting, and scripted events
• Created series of partial effects
• Created custom sounds - oversaw voice actors and recording

Heroes Vs Villains: Battle for Supremacy - Multiplayer Unreal Tournament 2004 Project

                                                                                                                                         July - September 2006

Lead Level Designer

• Designed Power Plant Level.
  • Created Level Design Document, complete with gameplay sketches
  • Created BSP, lighting, and some custom textures
  • Created gameplay using items, objectives and flow
  • Implemented event-triggered particle effects
• Created 15 static meshes for level, many created to be destroyed in course of gameplay
  • Including unwrapping and creating custom textures
  • Some objects where created with more than one option for textures
• Responsible for gameplay elements including objectives and items
• Co-built programmer sandbox - Maintained/updated/changed sandbox as needed

Curse of the Mummies Tomb - Multiplayer Unreal Tournament 2004 Mod                                      June 2006

Level Designer

• Designed Temple Level
  • Created BSP and lighting
  • Created gameplay using flow alone lacking any items or level based objectives.
  • Created, Implemented, and placed article effects
• Modeled, unwrapped and textured one custom object

Crossbones 2D game - Scrolling Game Development Kit Project                                   January - March 2006

Lead Level Designer/Lead Programmer.

• Created additional Virtual Basic functionality
• Built and tested level for one deliverable, advised on second.
• Created Sound Triggers.
• Created and Implemented advanced titleset (animated, hidden, appearing/disappearing)
• Implemented parallaxing.

Education

Certificate of Digital Game Development:  Specialization in Level Design                        September 2007

The Guildhall at Southern Methodist University, Plano, TX

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science: Theory and Analysis.                                                 August 2004

Western Michigan University  Kalamazoo, Michigan.

• Degree Accredited by the Computing Sciences Accreditation Board that includes a Minor in mathematics.

Related Work Experience

Auxiliary Enterprises of Western Michigan University, Computer Support Technician                           2001-2002

• Provided technical support to 150+ computers and their users. 
• Diagnosed software errors and hardware problems. 
• Researched solutions to technical problems.

Indiana University – Purdue University of Fort Wayne, Computer Lab Consultant                                2000-2001

• Tech support for computer labs on campus.
• Worked both opening and closing shifts.
• Functioned without supervision.