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EDUCATION

MFA in Design and Technology Parsons The New School for Design

Focus in UX and Game Design

B.S. in Graphic Design Southern Adventist University

Bachelor of Science in Graphic Design with an emphasis in Interactive Media, 2004 2009

EXPERIENCE

Co-Founder and Lead Game Designer Antidote Games June 2012 Present

Created and designed games for the Red Cross, United Nations, World Band, Fleet Forum, Nor-

dic Council on Climate Change, among others. Created games that were played on four conti-

nents everywhere from Manhattan board rooms to rural Kenyan villages. Specialized in taking

complex information and creating engaging game experiences from it.

Creative Computing Instructor Parsons August 2012 Present

Designed the syllabus and taught Creative Computing to undergraduates at Parsons, the New

School for Design. Crafted a teaching experience to impart the fundamentals of Programming

using Processing.

Serious Games Professor Bloomfield College August 2012 Present

Developed a practice for transforming serious issues into abstract game mechanics. Oversaw the

creation of digital and analog games around topics like child abuse, prostitution, and deforesta-

tion. Informed students of current serious games, and leading game designers in the field.

Game Design Instructor Parsons August 2012

Taught game design to middle school students for Parsons summer learning program, SPACE.

Taught the best practices of game design using the program Game Salad.

Web Design Instructor Parsons August 2011 May 2012

Designed the syllabus and taught Web Design 2 to undergraduates at Parsons, the New School

for Design. The only Graduate MFA D+T student asked to do so, and the first to do so for two

semesters.

Bootcamp Instructor Parsons August 2011

Taught and helped design the course for a three-week, 9-hour a day curriculum putting incoming

MFA D+T students through the necessary skills they need to survive the D+T program. I spe-

cialized in teaching Processing.

Interactive Programmer March 2010 July 2010

Worked on a team to create a large-scale interactive wall project for Southern Adventist Univer-

sity s trade show booth. Used C++ with the OpenFrameworks and OpenCV Libraries.

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AWARDS and GRANTS

HackNY Fellow 2012

Worked at a technology startup in NYC.

Red Cross Young Scholar 2012

Created educational games for the Red Cross for interactive sessions at climate change

conferences. The games were run as breakout and icebreaker sessions at climate change

conferences all around the world.

Open Society Fellowship 2011

Lived and worked in Kiev, Ukraine at the International Aids Alliance art directing a

multi-lingual advertising campaign for Hepatitis C awareness.

Global Game Jam Winner 2011

Won Best Overall, Most Promising, and Judges Choice at the largest Game Jam location

in the U.S. at NYU. Game was one of 10 selected worldwide out of 1,486 to be presented

at he Gamesauce Challenge in Germany.

Make Work Grant, 2009

$15,000 Grant awarded for the production of a multimedia performance art project in

Chattanooga with the band Prophets and Kings.

SKILLS

Awesome: Good, but not Awesome:

Teaching Unity

Game Design Maya

Level Design Max/MSP Jitter

Adobe Creative Suite After Effects

Actionscript 3.0 PHP/MySQL

HTML/CSS & JQuery Video and Still Cameras

Processing Grip and Electric

OpenFrameworks

REFERENCES

Pablo Suarez, Red Cross Nick Fortugno, Playmatics

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Colleen Macklin, Parsons Ken Willes, Ideum

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