Profile – Games I’ve worked on:

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CAREER INFO:

I’m a Senior Level Designer and Programmer with 13+ years in game development.

I have experience in both AAA and INDIE dev.

I’m an expert in most parts of Unreal Engine 5. I’ve developed skillsets in various areas, including:

Game Design
Multiplayer & Singleplayer gameplay programming
Linear, open and HUB-like design philosophy and expertise
Game systems design & implementation
Actor & Systems Prototyping
Programming actors, components & Blueprints
Replication & ownership
RPCs, multicast, event dispatchers
ACharacter programming and utilization (Unreal Engine)
Engine Hierarchy & data flow

Symmetrical, asymmetrical map design
Multiplayer map design
Open-World map design
First-Person Shooter design specialization
Modular planning & implementation
Metrics, documentation, technical decision-making
Unique location construction
Set-dressing and visual story-telling
Landscaping & geometry tools
AI/NPC Design and scripting
UI & UX and player-leading
Optimization, and more..

Over my career as a Level Designer, I’ve designed and built everything from small rooms and objects, to balanced multiplayer maps, to entire worlds – and everything that’s part of them.

World & Gameplay Design

A gameplay first approach to map design: Focusing on gameplay loops to ensure flow, balance, enjoyment, and readability.
Expert in spatial design, goal-oriented world building, player-pathing, environmental traversal, and player leading.

Skilled in crafting grounded, gameplay oriented environments with a strong sense of identity and purpose.
Established technical abilities to build story-rich environments and narrative, through world design, set dressing, custom actors/components, vfx/sfx, lighting, world logic, etc.

Level Design & Prototyping

13+ years of experience greyboxing with modular kits and custom meshes.
Various kinds of layout experience include: linear, open-world, asymmetrical, symmetrical, multiplayer, HUB-like, arena-like, team-based, and more.

Owner of locations. Plans, designs, builds and supports from scratch through to shipped.
A developed and attuned sense of what makes spaces and locations function clearly and consistently; across single-player, co-op, and multiplayer IPs.

Technical Design & Programming

Expert in many areas of Unreal Engine, along with Lua, Kismet, and other engines like Source, Snowdrop, Anvil, Dunia, and Unity.
Well versed in the design, programming and implementation of UObjects, (actors, components, parent/child, casting, inheritance, functions, events, replication, etc.)

Expert in gameplay prototyping, debugging and level iteration, using AI/NPCs, game-testing, player feedback, heatmaps, and other tools.
Experienced in feature prototyping, custom scripting, plugin integration, inherited behaviours, size-map and optimizations, interfaces, and so on.

Production & Pipeline

Extensive experience in both AAA and INDIE pipelines—from concept to post-launch & support.
A strive for smooth production through open and honest cross-team communication, collaboration, and milestone focused co-development.

Experience with certification, hardware budgets & limitations, asset optimization, memory, VRAM and performance profiling.
Shipped titles on PC, consoles, VR/AR(mobile).

Collaboration & Leadership

Led mentorship and training efforts, on-boarding, and cross-dept communication & sync-ups, both within QC and Level Design roles.

Aims to build strong relationships within the production, working with engineers, designers, artists, QA, production and community teams.

Personal Traits & Interests

Lifelong & active gamer with deep knowledge and experience across a vast array of genres, titles, and experiences.
Enjoyer of singleplayer games, but lover of co-op and multiplayer games.

Self-driven, self-learning problem solver with a desire to create awesome stuff.
Technology savvy, science oriented… also loves Star Trek, Star Wars and anything Space related…