Independent Design & Game Development

Game Designer | Jan 2021 – Present

• Participated in several Game Jams as a Programmer, Designer, and Writer.

• Created lots small / micro games solo, bringing them to a playable prototype phase including.

  • A rules-light Tabletop Roleplaying Game, Spacelings in Space.

  • A 3D Platformer in Unity, A Poem About Life.

  • A narrative focused rogue-like game called Psychopomp.

Proprietor | April 2023  – Present

• Started a company, Grimoire Games, through which to publish my most polished work.

  • In the process of releasing a poetry based card game called Rhyme Scheme.

  • Pitched several games to hundreds of publishers, refining my pitch and product with feedback.

  • Attended PAX Unplugged three years to pitch games and network.

  • Negotiated and organized with factories and fulfillment agencies for self-publishing.

Graphic Designer| February 2026  – Present

• Logo, Business card, and Signage graphics designs/redesigns for local businesses.

• Negotiated with customers to produce and revise designs.

• Created complicated fantasy maps, flags, and more.

Molecular Jig Games (Baltimore, MD)

Game Design Intern | June 2022 – December 2022

• Worked as a part of a small team to develop a puzzle game based on biochemistry funded by an educational grant.

• Responsible for translating the scientific information provided by Dr. Melanie Stegman into interesting puzzle mechanics, creating the level designs for the initial launch of the game, and implementing those levels in unity.

• Created physical prototypes to demonstrate and pitch ideas to the team during the mechanic development phase. Then took their feedback and suggestions and iterated on the mechanics until everyone was happy to move forward.

• Created the level designs following a similar iterative process: Creating low-fidelity designs in Adobe Illustrator, pitching them to the team, iterating, and eventually making high-fidelity designs for the ones the team settled on.

• Implemented these designs into Unity using prefabs and scripts made by the developer.

• Ended employment on good terms at the scheduled end of the semester.

Choozees (Hershey, PA) 

Android Developer May 2020 – Jul 2021

• Participated in high level design meetings with the founding team for the app.

• Pitched ideas to the group for app features. 

• Created assets for the app and company in Adobe Illustrator .

• Created a prototype in Unity to demonstrate that it could be used to develop that app cross-platform.

• Worked on the Android Development team programming in Java.

• Parted ways on good terms due to my interest in design over engineering.

Harrisburg University of Science and Technology 

App Developer Intern Jan 2020 – May 2020

• Worked as a Unity Developer Intern on a research grant for Dr. Erin Buchanan.

• Created pages in Unity that matched the specifications provided to me.

• Created C# scripts to implement app features

• Ended employment on good terms at the scheduled end of the semester.

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