Welcome to My Site
This site holds my resume and includes some items from my portfolio.
I've also included a short history of my interest in gaming, including the games
I like to play.
Summary of my Life
- Graduated with a BA in Computer Science and English.
- Ran away for a year to get my auto-mechanics certificate in
a town so far north that the rivers flow toward the Arctic.
- Interned at a hot-rod shop where mechanics cheerily smoked
while pulling out gas tanks and yelling "Tabarnac!"
- Hijacked by Microsoft for 9 years to test and write SDK and
end-user documentation for IIS, ASP, and ASP.NET.
- Finished kissing frogs and married a prince of a man.
- Spent my honeymoon learning a kick-ass form from Shaolin
monks.
- Quit Microsoft to study computer games.
- Ran out of money and joined the working world again to write
documentation for the super-cool Microsoft product, Expression
Blend. Contracting rocks!
- Finished my Digital Gaming certificate at Bellevue College.
- Worked on contract again for Microsoft Expression Blend 2.
- Taught Unreal Game Design for a term at Bellevue College.
- Worked on contract again
for Microsoft Expression Blend 3. I LOVE that team! Made a Simon
game and wrote an article about
using timers and constructing
the game in Expression Blend. Also wrote an article about
how
teachers might be able to use Expression Blend to create
educational games and animations.
- Tried something new and
snagged a contract writing Silverlight documentation for Windows
Embedded Compact. Hello, native C++, it's been a while!
- Started working with a local artist/teacher, designing and
developing a learning game called Emeralda. As an indie team of
two, it's taking forever. :) See the
trailer
and blog.
- Wistful for a paycheck again, snagged a contract writing for the Microsoft
Surface SDK. Love it! Sleeper casual game platform of the
century!
- Finally got my chance to enter the game industry. I'm currently working on
tutorials for Torque 3D, made by GarageGames. Yahoo!!! I LOVE Torque!