Education

UC Santa Cruz  | Master's of Science in Games and Playable Media  |  Sept 2020 - March 2022

Mills College  |  Teaching Credential in Mathematics  |  Sept. 2015 - June 2016 
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo  |  Bachelor’s of Architecture Cum Laude  |  Sept. 2010 - June 2015

 

Skills

C#, Blueprints, Python  |   Unity, Unreal, Processing  |   Maya, AutoCAD   |   Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign   |   Drafting

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Work Experience

Evening Star  |  Level Designer  |  June 2022 - Present

• Brainstormed and sketched storyboards for level designs

• Constructed levels from mock-up to final design and polish

• Collaborated with fellow designers and departments to create cohesion across levels

• Brainstormed, developed and prototyped ideas for pitches​

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UC Davis Biomedical Engineering Department  |  Game Design Intern  |  April 2021 - February 2022

• Attend weekly meetings with the full game design team

• Present progress updates at bi-weekly meetings with faculty

• Complete various design tasks needed for game development (see Space Zoologist project below)

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Oakland Technical High School  |  Teacher  |  Sept. 2016 - June 2020

• Taught and developed curriculum for Engineering Principles, Architecture, and Architecture 2

• Advised students taking Architecture 2 and 3D modeling as independent study

• Co-Director of Engineering Academy (EA): Sept 2017 - June 2020      

  • Helped redevelop student admission process to EA to be more equitable

  • Updated EA student course sequence

  • Helped write new Senior project class curriculum

  • Managed budget and ordering for the EA

  • Organized annual EA events (Bridge Competition, field trips, ordering t-shirts, etc.)

• Member of Instructional Leadership Team: Sept 2017 - June 2020

• Analyzed schoolwide demographic data as part of the Equity Team: Sept 2016 - June 2019 

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Projects

Penny’s Big Breakaway (Team of 20)          Level Designer          June 2022 - January 2024

• Sketched storyboards, created blockouts, and developed the first draft for 5 levels

• Designed first draft of Denizen Dilemmas and Showpiece challenges for 9 levels

• Assigned first draft of procgen assets to 10 levels

• Polished gameplay, décor placement, and procgen placement as needed in all levels

• Collaborated with fellow designers in daily feedback meetings

• Collaborated with art and engineering departments to polish gameplay and procgen

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Path to Oshun at UC Santa Cruz (Team of 4)  |  Level Designer  |  June 2021 - March 2022

• Brainstormed a variety of level layout ideas for the team to discuss and choose from

• Drafted maps for various sections of the games based on a narrative outline

• Prototyped and iterated on 3D levels using Maya and Unreal

• Modeled and textured architectural assets

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Space Zoologist at UC Davis BME (Team of 11, WIP)  |  Game and Level Designer  |  April 2021 - February 2022

• Developed visual design documents that summarized and iterated on existing game design

• Iterated on "Needs System" design and designed placeholder levels for testing the system

  • Used excel to create a tool for testing equations and relationships in this system​

• Developed sequence of concepts to be introduced over the course of 5 levels

• Designed level progression system that uses adaptive learning to tailor each player's experience

• Drafted and iterated level designs for 4 sections of Level 1 as well as 1 section for each of levels 2-4 and a tutorial

• Developed design of notebook feature

• Planned and conducted playtests

 

Museum of Mechanics at UC Santa Cruz (Team of 14)  | Art Lead  |  Jan. 2021 - March 2021

• Scheduled and planned weekly art team meetings

• Facilitated feedback sessions for artists

• Developed initial museum design concept with team

• Iterated on museum design and created museum assets for the Unity project using Maya

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Dear Future (Team of 5)

• Created layout documents using AutoCAD to show the needed placement of assets for procedural generation

• Worked with procedural generation engineer to develop assets

• Used Maya to 3D model assets for procedurally generated and manually designed areas ​

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