Career

Three studios, three acquisitions — Microsoft, Zynga, Netflix — and a steady drift from making the art to running the whole thing.

1998–09 Ensemble Studios / Microsoft Employee #18 · Age of Empires franchise · founded the Technical Art department 25M+ units

2009–13 Bonfire Studios → Zynga Founding three · CastleVille — Zynga's fastest-growing launch at the IPO Acquired

2013–25 Boss Fight Entertainment → Netflix IT Director · Tech Art Lead · EP on Dungeon Boss · GM through the Netflix acquisition Acquired

Now Independent Startup & AI consulting · Belter in development · the next machine on the bench Open to talk

Self-Employed

Startup & AI Consultant Dec 2025 – Present

Advises startups on adopting generative AI — recently drove it across a full product-pitch pipeline, helping one put five distinct product concepts in front of major publishers.
Builds working prototypes and runs local ML infrastructure firsthand using Claude Code, diffusion models, and RAG/MCP-based workflows.

General Manager Mar 2022 – Nov 2025

Scaled two products from zero-team prototype concepts to shipping teams totaling 140 with development budgets exceeding $100M.
Sustained top-4 monthly engagement platform-wide for Netflix Stories — 13 narrative games shipped in ~18 months — with zero user-acquisition spend.
Led Squid Game: Unleashed to #1 at launch on Netflix Games: #1 Top Free Game in 24 countries, 10.7M+ downloads, free-for-everyone at launch — a first for Netflix Games.
Initiated a generative-AI pilot for in-game asset creation, from evaluation through production trial.

General Manager Jul 2020 – Mar 2022

Built the prototypes that led to the studio's acquisition by Netflix, directing a 90-person team through the four-month deal.
Reversed Dungeon Boss's late-lifecycle decline, growing engagement 8% in a category losing 10–20% a year.

Executive Producer Jan 2017 – Jul 2020

Executive Producer on Dungeon Boss for two years.
Led a two-year development program with Activision-Blizzard from early prototype to a full development team.
Grew from production leadership into general management, earning promotion to General Manager.

Director of IT · Technical Art Lead Jun 2013 – Jan 2017

Built and ran the studio's IT infrastructure single-handedly as it grew from zero to 60 employees, then returned to lead technical art.

Lead Technical Artist · Software Engineer Oct 2010 – Jul 2013

Key contributor to CastleVille, Zynga's flagship at its December 2011 IPO — the fastest-growing Zynga title to that point, with 26.5M players in its first month.
Adapted production systems from a sub-10-person founding team to a 3,000+ person public company.

Lead Technical Artist · Engineer Apr 2009 – Oct 2010

One of the first three employees out of Ensemble Studios; built the technical art pipeline that ran at scale through Zynga's acquisition and IPO.

Technical Artist · 3D Artist Jan 1998 – Mar 2009

Employee #18; shipped on the Age of Empires franchise (25M+ units) from Rise of Rome (1998) through Age of Kings, The Conquerors, Age of Mythology, Age of Empires III, and Halo Wars.
Founded and built the Technical Art department from scratch, setting production standards adopted studio-wide.

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