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About Me

Born in Kansas City, I attended the University of Kansas where I received a BFA in Digital Media and a minor in Art History.

After 5+ years of working in Kansas City’s restaurant industry, I moved to Chicago and started a career path in programming and game development.

By day I'm a Software Engineer for Jackbox Games, Inc. - where I get to design, develop, and maintain both frontend and backend projects.

By night I'm a hobbist artist with a love of video games. 

Experience

Jackbox Games, Inc. - chicago, il

A game studio best known for their annual release of The Jackbox Party Pack.

Software Engineer (2023 - PRESENT)

• Work within a game team to design, implement, iterate, and maintain the website “controller” for Timejinx in The Jackbox Party Pack 10.

  • Vue, Typescript, SCSS, AWS S3 (asset storage and retrieval), AWS Cognito (auth configuration)

• Deliver and present work to major stakeholders throughout production.

• Migrate the company website away from wordpress to a custom SPA that utilizes Strapi CMS and shopify integration.

• Web browser automation to assist with internal testing using Selenium (Javascript)

• Create CLI testing tools to assist with automated server and gameplay testing (Golang)

SDET: Software Development Engineer In Test (2022 - 2023)

• Design, develop, and maintain internal tools for server, game application, and web browser testing.

• Identify and automate repetitive manual tests using Selenium NodeJS

• Create command line tools (written in Go) for server and game application automation to assist with data shape analysis and performance testing .

Senior QA ANALYST (2020 - 2022)

• Act as a conduit b/w QA dept and game design team. Develop and maintain test plans, risk assesments, and expected behaviors documentation.

• Work with Infrastructure and Gameplay Engineers to assist with the development of internal testing tools.

• Coordinate and execute game certification testing and approval across departments - including production, engineering, marketing, & customer service.

• Onboarding and training new hires.

• Work closely with the QA manager to determine road map and achieve long-term department goals.

QA ANALYST (2019 - 2020)

• Functional testing of games, servers, and web browsers.

• Act as QA lead on a game team - creating/maintaining test plans, sprint planning/review, design discussion and risk assesment.

• Identify, investigate, and accurately reproduce, document, and report bugs to producers, engineers, artists, audio, and localization departments.

• Certification Testing across various platforms (Steam, Mac App Store, Epic Games Store, Windows Store, PS4/5, Xbox One/XBox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, Luna, Stadia)

• Create and maintain documentaion. (Confluence, Jira, Github, Knowledge Base)

• Organize and Lead User Experience testing program.

• Monitor and respond to customer service tickets

Shipped Titles

The Jackbox Party Pack 6 (2019)
Quiplash interLASHional (2020)
The Jackbox Party Pack 7 (2020)
Drawful 2 - International update major patch (2021)
The Jackbox Party Pack 8 (2021)
The Jackbox Party Starter (2022)
The Jackbox Party Pack 9 (2022)
The Jackbox Party Pack 10 (2023)

Tequa Creek HOldings, LLc. - Lawrence, KS

A small software consultant company that specializes in document retention software and systems.

Systems analyst & consultant (2016 - 2019)

• Concurrently worked across multiple system migration projects. Assisted with database replication and migration.

• Customized and configured document retention software.

• Requirements gathering, functional testing, user training & follow up customer support post-deployment.