About Me

My first video game I ever played was…a horrible one: Pac-Man on the Atari 2600… But I was 2 so chalk that one up to “I didn’t know better”. However that experience was enough to start my fascination with video games. No matter where I moved to or what was going on in the world, video games grounded me. They inspired me in all aspects of my life (along with martial arts but that’s a different tale).

Being a jack of all trades, video games contributed to my love of drawing, writing, designing, music, and acting. When it came time for college, due to an article I read in Electronic Gaming Monthly, I decided to change up my initial pursuit of an acting career for one of computer science in the hopes of becoming a game designer! I even created a small JRPG for my senior high school project using the O.H.R.RPG.C.E.

One Comp Sci B.S. degree & economic crash of 2008 later, I found myself picking up a QA role that looked to leverage my coding experience. Thus began my career in Test Automation & creating QA Departments! However the desire to make video games never left. I would make small vertical slice games in my spare time. At first in Flash, then in Unity. More recently I began participating in game jams and even started my own indie game development studio! While my first release is still in progress & my career has evolved to being a leader in the QA/Team building space, I think it’s time to pursue my game design dream in earnest.

TL;DR - I got into computer science with the desire to create games. The passion has been burning deep within for 20+ years. It’s time to take my big picture, quality focused mindset and apply it to game design & development!

Hobbies

• Playing & Collecting Video Games

• Collecting Transformers

• Building Gunpla

• Martial Arts (Training & Teaching)

• Cooking