Bitmask Games

Founder, Director, and Lead Instructor

2023 - present

 

I built Bitmask Games from the ground up, and handle both the day to day business as well as the student instruction. At the studio, I teach students, aged six to well over sixty, how to create video games. Bitmask games also has a publishing arm, specializing in games for legacy systems such as the NES. 

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Omni Creator Products

Developer Relations Manager

2023 - 2024

 

As Developer Relations Manager, I helped foster community engagement with OCP's flagship game, Project Frontier, a sandbox RPG that encourages players to become creators with the game's built-in CreatorLab tools. I was the liason between the player/creator community and the game's engineers, dealing both with creating instructionals for those creating user generated content and articulating those users' needs to the engineering team.

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Roger Williams University

Director of Content Marketing

2022 - 2023

 

As Director of Content Marketing, I led a multidisciplinary team to develop comprehensive content strategy that incorporated major strategic messaging themes for a variety of audiences distributed on websites, social media, and video and for developing and tracking metrics of success. I helped drive the collegiate rebrand.

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inMusic

Product Manager, M-Audio

2021 - 2022

 

As product manager, I coordinated with a team to conceptualize new, exciting audio production products and bring them to market.  From evaluating consumer trends and needs to developing mock ups and prototypes to building mass media campaigns with marketing and sales to working with global contract manufacturers, I helped the company maintain over $130.5 million in average annual revenue. One major product I helped to conceptualize and develop, and sub-brand I helped launch, was M-Game and its line of game streaming interfaces.

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Ringling College of Art and Design

Senior Content Creator and Adjunct Instructor

​2012 - 2021

 

As part of the Communications and Strategies department, my job for 9 years was to devise and implement marketing strategies to help make Ringling College the preeminent arts college. From helping to create branding campaigns to developing suites of video content for student recruitment, to chronicling alumni success stories, to covering live events, I continually adapted to serve the needs of the department and the institution. Additionally, I teach courses as part of the adjunct faculty for the college.

 

 

The New 8-bit Heroes, LLC

Chief Executive Officer and Creative Director

​2014 - 2024

 

I launched this company with a small personal investment in 2014. Since, it has produced an award winning documentary currently on Amazon, several video games, a comic book series, and most notably, a game development software tool, for which I am also lead programmer.  I have managed the team, the project, and the brand from its conception through its development, past its launch, and to its success.  The tool, NESmaker, is now used by over 5000 active users globally, and is part of classroom instruction to teach game development in over two dozen schools and universities. 

 

 

Frederick Douglass High School

Teacher

​2006 - 2012

 

At FDHS, I taught as part of the Recording Arts, Media, and Production program, where I passed on my knowledge of music production, filmmaking, and game development to eager young minds. In the summer of 2008, I helped advise in the writing of the state curriculum for game development, which I then piloted.

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General Creative

 

Beyond formal work history, I am a creative.  I have created marketing campaigns, filmed documentaries and narrative films, composed music and soundtracks, written novels, written for comics, written for magazine publications, designed for video games, and developed software.  I have managed teams through creation of transmedia properties, given guest lectures at educational institutions such as UCLA and University of Baltimore, given panel discussions at events like PAX, SXSW, and GDC, and am a permanent student of the arts with a lifelong passion for expression through various mediums.