About

I spent all my formative “adult” years in the dark windowless wings of theaters waiting for my cue. There are few things I love like the stage. The audience and the story, both mingling in the same room, are a rare and powerful pairing. There is no better way to learn what works and what doesn’t about a story than to perform it as a play.

I spent four years at Deck Nine Games as a Performance Director, working in another storytelling medium I’ve always loved, video games. My primary job was to take a script and turn it into a stage play that could fit on our little motion capture volume. I helped teach my actors to see past the tech they were laden with, to step into the world of the game and meet each other in the height of the moment. I helped by being the bridge between the needs of the team, the technology, the story, and the cast.

When mocap was dark, I made myself useful on the Audio team, where my background in music and sound design could be put to good use. I could not only direct VO sessions, I could clean and polish the dialogue, import and implement, and sound design the scene. I also championed mocap R&D efforts, and developed new production tools that were applied at scale to our tech pipeline. Much like theater, game dev is a job where it pays to wear many hats.

Ultimately I was promoted to Motion Capture Director of the studio, shipping games across the Life is Strange franchise and The Expanse: A Telltale Series. When life moved on in December 2025, I kept building. I have replaced the $50,000 mocap rig I’d used at work with a markerless pipeline running on consumer GPUs. I’ve built a branching narrative editor that can track 200+ micro-choices across a full game. I taught local AI to analyze, summarize, and write a dossier for any novel ever written: past, present, or future. And I wired it all together into autonomous agent systems that orchestrate creative production workflows.

I live in Colorado with my wife and our 3 dogs. I shoot photos, invent things, and maintain an unreasonable number of GPUs.