Experience
2025 / Associate Producer II
2019 / Tabletop Game Designer
2023 / 25 Development Director I
2020 / 25 Game Development Instructor
2021 / 23 Associate Development Manager
2019 / 20 Team Leader of Learning
2018 / 19 Manager on Duty
2017 / 18 Research Assistant
2017 / 18 Community Educator, Staff Trainer
2015 / 18 Editor
2017 / 17 Visiting Scholar
2017 / 17 Research Assistant
2016 / 17 Teaching Assistant
2016 / 17 Learning Coach
2015 / 16 Product Specialist
2014 / 14 Research Assistant
2011 / 12 Reading and Writing Tutor
Education
2018 MA Interdisciplinary Humanities
2016 BA Honours English, Distinction
2016 Certificate Creative Writing
2015 Certificate French B1
Licenses & Certifications
2024 / 2027 PMP
2021 / 2024 CAPM
Honours & Awards
2018
Humanities Award
2017
/ 18
MAIH Dean's Scholarship
2017
MSFSS
2017
GSA Research Grant
2016
/ 17
MAIH Dean's Scholarship
2016
/ 17
CGS-M
2015
Philippa Polson Prize
2015
Capi Blanchet Scholarship
2014
/ 16
President's Honour Roll
2013
/ 16
Dean's Honour Roll
Affiliations
Since 2024 TTGDA
Since 2023 AIAS
Since 2021 IGDA
Since 2021 PMI
Since 2020 CGSA
Languages
English, fluent (first language)
French, CEFR B1
Skills
Program Management, Product Management, Organizational Design, Business Architecture, Operational Excellence, UX Research, Playtesting, User Acceptance Testing, Quality Management, Test-Driven Development, Game Design, Game Development, Project Management, Agile Methodologies, People Management, Engineering Management, Team Management, Staff Development, Game Studies, Narrative Design, Interactive Storytelling, Publishing, Crowdfunding, Poststructuralism, Hermeneutics, Narratology, Technology, Phenomenology, Creative Writing, Literary Theory, Literary Criticism, American Literature
Industry
2026 TBA
2025 EA SPORTS FC™ 26
2024 EA SPORTS FC™ 25
2023 EA SPORTS FC™ 24
2022 EA SPORTS™ FIFA 23
Research
Book Chapters
2026 A Big Room with the Lights Turned Out
2025 Interactive Storytelling
Book Reviews
2023 Imagined Agency
2022 Mechanics of Speculation
2022 Being Meat
2022 A Wonderfully Inconsistent Being
2021 Joyful Study
Conference Papers
2025 In Search of a Distant Light
2024 The Lived Politics of the Negative
2024 Dreams of Extraction
2023 Beasts and Sovereigns
2023 Tactile Thematics, 2
2022 Production and Pedagogy
2022 Play to Lose
2021 No Dice, No Masters
2021 Bodies in Form, 2
2021 It's More Like a Tendency
2020 The Dark Sigil Will Guide Thee
2020 It Can't Be For Nothing
2020 Pure Vessels
2020 Praise the Sun
2020 The Fire Fades
2020 Tactile Thematics
2019 Bodies in Form
2019 The Torqued Horizon
2019 Thoreau's Cabin
2017 Narratives of Blood
Theses
2018 Fiction in the Integrated Circuit
2015 Narratives of Blood
Teaching
SP25 Video Game Aesthetics
SP25 Industry Field Placement
FA24 Industry Field Placement
FA24 Interactive Storytelling
SP24 Advanced Game Design
FA23 Project Management
SP23 Game Development Project III
SP23 Video Game Aesthetics
SP23 Game Development Project II
FA22 Game Development Project III
FA22 Game Development Project II
FA22 Interactive Storytelling
SU22 Industry Field Placement
SP22 Game Development Project III
SP22 Game Development Project II
SP22 Industry Field Placement
SP22 Intro to Game Design
FA21 Game Development Project III
FA21 Game Development Project II
FA21 Industry Field Placement
FA21 Advanced Game Design
FA21 Project Management
SU21 Interactive Storytelling
SP21 Video Game Aesthetics
SP21 Game Development Project II
SP21 Game Development Project I
FA20 Game Development Project II
FA20 Interactive Storytelling
FA20 Video Game Design
FA20 Intro to Game Design
Design
Tabletop Games
2024 Indoor Dog, Outdoor World
2024 The Author Is Alive and Wants to Sell You Books
2023 AFK
2021 Concrete Rules
2021 Utopics
2021 Method
2021 Fear of Play
2021 Earth Without Us
2021 Skin and Stars
2021 Buffering
2021 A Game, Perhaps
2021 Glitchspiel
2021 Dead Letters
2021 Notoriously Frivolous
2020 Living Failures
2020 Silent Prayer
2020 Lovepunk
2020 Jam Session
2020 Useless Passions
2020 Good Exercise
2020 Metanarrative
2020 Among Farmers
2020 Stay
2020 Lost Scriptures
2020 Moonfall
2019 Advent
2019 umbral / rhizome
2019 Affinity
2019 Hollow Machines
Game Jams
2024 Win by Losing
2023 Radical Futures
2023 Artificial People
2021 Leap of Faith
2021 Applied Hope
2021 Intergalactic Memorial Carnival
Poetry
Books
Forthcoming The Deep
Chapbooks
2023 Stratum of Choice
2023 On the Back of a Tiger
Poems
2018 Onychophagia
2017 Étretat
Colophon
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