SUMMARY

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Award-winning audio director with 17+ years of experience crafting immersive game audio across sound design, music systems, dialogue, and technical implementation. Passionate about building rich, emotionally resonant worlds through sound, and leading teams to push creative and technical boundaries.

Driven to collaborate with passionate developers on bold, original projects—shaping the audio experience from the ground up and creating something truly memorable for players.

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EXPERIENCE

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2024 - Present

Vicious Sound

Audio Director / Senior Sound Designer - Fortnite Battle Royal, Rocket League & Splitgate 2

• Lead and mentor a team of 5 sound designers; define workflows, scope work, and ensure high-quality, on-time delivery.

• Sound design & implementation for Fortnite BR (weapons, gliders, emotes, sidekicks) using Unreal & MetaSounds.

• Designed audio for Rocket League (boosts, engines, goal explosions) with Wwise/Unreal.

• Collaborate with 1047 Games on Splitgate 2; designed and implemented full weapon audio systems with Wwise/Unreal.

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2023 - 2024

Counterplay Games

Audio Director - Armatus

• Defined and executed full audio vision for a AAA action roguelike IP.

• Built and led a 9-person audio team.

• Designed complete audio pipeline (guns, ambience, animation, music, dialogue) using Wwise & Unreal.

• Created an adaptive music system and implemented complex dialogue systems with localization.

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2021 - 2023

Phoenix Labs

Audio Director - Fae Farm

• Led audio vision, sound design, and implementation.

• Built audio tech pipeline (ambience, animation, music systems) in Wwise/Unreal.

• Directed music production with composer Cris Velasco; contributed live instrumentation.

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2019 - 2022

Lionshead Entertainment

Audio Lead / Lead Sound Designer

• Audio Lead – Disney Mirrorverse

  • Delivered full audio vision; led team producing audio for 70+ characters and multiple environments.

  • Designed and implemented audio systems (Fabric/Unity); handled final mix/master for mobile release.

• Lead Cinematics Designer – Minecraft Legends

  • Led cinematic audio (30+ cinematics, 5.1 mix) and contributed to gameplay sound design.

• Music Designer / Cinematics Mixing – Gears of War 5

  • Designed and implemented adaptive gameplay music (Wwise/Unreal).

  • Mixed/mastered music and localized 52 cinematics in 8 languages (7.1).

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2012 - 2019

Disney Games & Interactive Experiences

Audio Director / Lead Sound Designer

• Led audio for Club Penguin Island (full audio pipeline, team leadership, sound design and implementation).

• Sound design and mix for 100+ marketing trailers across Star Wars, Marvel, Pixar.

• Worked on multiple titles including Club Penguin, Disney Jr. Appisodes, Puffle Wild, Sled Racer, Sound Studio, Alexa audiobooks (Star Wars), LEGO FPS prototype and more.

• Tools: Unity, Wwise, Fabric, Flash.

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2010 - 2012
United Front Games - Sleeping Dogs

Lead Cinematics Audio Designer

• Designed, edited, and mixed 180+ cinematics (5.1) and ensured cinematic/gameplay audio continuity.

• Gameplay sound design including environments, player foley, combat SFX, menu user interface and mini-game audio.

• All implementation using Wwise and a custom game engine.

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2011

Electronic Arts - Need For Speed: The Run

Audio Artist

• Designed and implemented vehicle collision systems and cinematic moment audio in Frostbite 2.

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2009 - 2011
United Front Games

Sound Designer - Modnation Racers

• Designed and recorded UI audio and player voice systems; implemented using Wwise.

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EDUCATION

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Diploma in Sound Design for Visual Media

Vancouver Film School - Vancouver, BC

• Graduated with Honours; Scholarship Recipient.

• Intensive program focused on post-production for film, TV, and games.

• Specialized in 5.1 surround mixing, dialogue, SFX, and foley.

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Associate Degree of Science

Okanagan University College - Kelowna, BC

• Major in Mathematics.