// Experience

Where I've worked.

The products themselves live in Projects.

1. 

   Independent

   Nov 2025 – Present

   AI-Native Development Pipelines & Agent Workflows

   Building a real-time football simulator in Lua, AI-paired. The practice turns AI into a production standard: an automated context library, review gates, and prompt tooling that raise a team's capability and efficiency.

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2. 

   Google Workspace

   Sep 2024 – Apr 2025

   Program Manager (contract) · via Where the Buffalo Roam

   Drove retrospectives and weekly design reviews across an AI prompt-integration effort spanning ~24 initiatives, and built an internal portal to train Product and Engineering on release and launch processes.

3. 

   Big Byte Studios

   Mar 2018 – Apr 2024

   Co-founder & Producer

   Co-founded and ran an independent studio for six years. Led a two-year ARPG through to a disciplined cancellation, then shipped two mobile titles on iOS and Android.

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4. 

   First Republic Bank

   Sep 2020 – May 2023

   Senior Program Manager

   Drove down the IT risk & security backlog at a 1M+ customer bank with 8,000+ employees. 200+ technical risks remediated in two years, with CIO-level reporting on risk and progress.

5. 

   Warner Bros. Games

   Feb 2017 – Mar 2018

   Senior Producer

   Turned around DC Legends. Built an automated anti-cheat program that cut cheating reports by 99.5% and lifted the app store rating from 2.2 to 4.4+, then managed a studio transition that extended the game's life.

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6. 

   Vulcun

   Feb 2016 – Jun 2016

   Senior Game Producer

   Joined the real-money daily fantasy esports startup (acquirer of TwitchAlerts) to stand up its game development studio. Built and led a 7-person game team and advised C-staff on streamer-engagement features, including chat-playable games and an ad-marketplace tool.

7. 

   Altosa Group

   Aug 2015 – Feb 2016

   Software Consultant

   Consulted for client software teams on product quality and process. Ran market research and competitive analysis on mobile apps, reviewed QA cycle structure, coached client teams on development practices, and recruited creative talent for staffing needs.

8. 

   Zynga

   Nov 2009 – Apr 2015

   Senior Producer · QA Lead → Producer → Senior Producer

   Produced FarmVille at its global peak, 36M daily players and $1M+ in daily revenue, and CMS tooling that saved 90+ development days per quarter for a 100-person content team.

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9. 

   Sony Computer Entertainment America

   Apr 2006 – Nov 2009

   Senior QA Analyst

   Held final gold-master approval for PlayStation titles and cleared Sony's independent Format QA certification on 100% of submissions, managing test teams of up to 40 across concurrent launches.