AI Builder.
Game design leader.

Hands-on product and game design leader with 20+ years building games from concept through launch and live operations.

Experience

Selected work

Founded Hightop Games, a casual mobile game studio building original games with AI-powered production systems.

Aces

A playing card merge puzzle

View on the App Store

Aces gameplay screenshot showing the card board

Aces gameplay screenshot showing card merges

Aces gameplay screenshot showing puzzle progress

Aces gameplay screenshot showing rewards

Daily Reword

A daily word puzzle

View on the App Store

Daily Reword gameplay screenshot showing a daily puzzle

Daily Reword gameplay screenshot showing word building

Daily Reword gameplay screenshot showing puzzle progress

Daily Reword gameplay screenshot showing results

Built to create

Tools

ProtoDuo

Preview app and game concepts on iPhone Duo. Add your screens and explore the device in 3D.

Open ProtoDuo

Material Lab

A Three.js materials sandbox. Explore textures, build scenes, and experiment with lighting and physics.

Open Material Lab

Rock Lab

A procedural 3D asset studio. Generate rocks, props, and paths, refine materials, and experiment with fracture and physics.

Open Rock Lab

App Store Dashboard

Update the game.
Update the App Store.

I built a dashboard that turns game updates into App Store updates. It creates marketing copy and automatically recaptures screenshots and video for iPhone and iPad.

Player presets put every capture in the right state. A built-in design layer adds banners and headlines. Git tracks the listing alongside the app build, and one button sends the finished page to App Store Connect.

Explore the Color Rise demo

App Store Dashboard demo with Color Rise listing copy, gameplay video, screenshots, iPhone and iPad previews, and design controls

Hidden Objects AI game prototype

Turn your photos into playable levels.

An AI-powered prototype that transforms personal photos into replayable scenes and integrates hidden objects as separate interactive elements. Yes, that is Luna up on the furniture.

Original photo of Luna sitting on a chair in a sunlit room — 01 Original photo

AI-stylized hidden objects game scene featuring Luna — 02 Playable scene

Mask Lab developer dashboard for testing object detection and masking — 03 Production tool

Big Run Studios

Distinguished Game Developer

Helped define skill-based bingo through Blackout Bingo, a Top 20 free app and Top 10 casino app. Led product design and UX for Sweeps Night and launched 10 titles on iOS and Android.

Aces · UA marketing

From game loop to ad creative.

Designed and produced user acquisition creative for Aces across AppLovin playable and video placements, pairing a hands-on version of the game with a vertical story built for mobile feeds.

Playable ad

Try the core loop

A self-contained HTML5 game creative built for AppLovin. Tap the device to play.

Vertical video ad

Build the story

A 9:16 gameplay story combining creator footage, gameplay capture, voice, and captions for mobile acquisition.

Production stack

AppLovin: Playable delivery and UA campaign creative
ElevenLabs: Audio transcription and script workflow
Creatify: AI-assisted vertical video production

Zynga

Principal User Experience

Helped evolve Zynga Poker, the world’s largest free-to-play poker game, adding Leagues and real world prizes.

Led FarmVille’s six-person UX team, shaping the player experience behind the defining Facebook game that surpassed 80 million monthly players.

A research tool I built to review the Netflix games portfolio with an interactive studio map, and a tagged news feed.

Open Dashboard

A mapped view of the studios and companies behind Amazon Luna, covering 123 games and 96 sourced developer profiles.

Open Dashboard

Kid Magic

Games & Marketing

Founded a creative studio delivering games, digital products, and integrated campaigns for Xbox, Sony, Disney, Adult Swim, Paramount, NCSOFT, and leading entertainment and gaming brands.

Cartoon Network