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OVERVIEW

A creative Producer and Designer who has built more than 50 published games in the past 20 years. This includes ‘Ratatouille’ and 'Wall-E' games based on the blockbuster movies from Disney/Pixar and top selling titles for LeapFrog.

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Producer and Designer of eight award winning educational games including titles based on movies in development from Disney / Pixar such as the upcoming summer 2008 title 'WALL-E' for the Leapster game system.
  • Producer and Designer who developed features for the Massively Multiplayer Universe – There. This included helping stage a ‘live concert’ event with the British pop rock band ‘Steadman’.
  • Producer responsible for launching seven of the “50 Best Web Games” featured in the March 2003 issue of PC Gamer magazine.
  • Senior Producer and Designer who directed external development teams to build games on shockwave.com which received the 2000 People’s Voice Webby Award for ‘Best Game site’.
  • Producer and Designer of the 3D action adventure game, Alien Versus Predator, described by Wired magazine and CNN as “one of the best cartridge games.” and voted one of the ‘Scariest games of all time’ by GameTrailers.com and Next Generation online.

EXPERIENCE

Consultant Producer/Designer  2008 - Present
LEAPFROG   Producer/Designer  2004 - 2008
THERE INC. Producer/Designer  2003
SKUNKWORKS STUDIOS Co-Founder/Producer/Designer 2001 – 2002
SHOCKWAVE.COM Senior Games Producer  1999 – 2000
CYCLONE STUDIOS/3DO Lead Game Designer 1998 – 1999
ROCKET SCIENCE GAMES Designer/Producer 1995 – 1997
ATARI Producer/Designer 1992 – 1995
MAXIS Quality Assurance Supervisor/Lead  1992
LUCASFILM GAMES Quality Assurance Supervisor/Lead 1990 – 1992

AWARDS

  • Leapster Ratatouille
    2007 Outstanding Product, iParenting Media Awards (link)
    2007 Small Screen Award, Parents' Choice Foundation (link)

  • Cosmic Math
    2007 Oppenheim Toy Portfolio, Gold Seal Award
    2006 Children's Technology Review, Editor's Choice Award
    2006 Parents' Choice Foundation, Parents' Choice Approved Award (link)
  • Number Raiders
    2006 Children's Technology Review, Editor's Choice Award
    2006 Parents' Choice Foundation, Parents' Choice Approved Award (link)
  • Letterpillar
    2007 Oppenheim Toy Portfolio, Gold Seal Award
    2007 Parents' Choice Foundation, Silver Honor Award (link)
    2006 Children's Technology Review, Editor's Choice Award
    2006 Parents' Choice Foundation, Parents' Choice Approved Award
  • Gutterball
    2002 RealOne Arcade Sports game of the year
  • Word Up
    2002 RealOne Arcade Word game of the year
  • Online Orc Builder - lordoftherings.net
    2002 Macromedia 'Site of the Day' - 11/28/2002
  • shockwave.com
    2000 Webby Award, People's choice - Best Games site
  • Alien Versus Predator
    2006 Declared one of the "Scariest Game of all time" (#4) - GameTrailers.com
    1997 Voted one of the "Scariest Game of all time" (#3) - Next Generation Online poll
    1994 Jaguar Action Game of the Year - Die Hard Game Fan magazine
    1994 Jaguar Game of the Year - Game Informer magazine