Projects

Helldivers 2 (2024), Arrowhead Game Studios
Ion Fury: Aftershock (2023), Voidpoint LLC
A.W.O.L. (2022), Shotspark Studios
Ion Fury (2019), Voidpoint LLC

Experience

  • Social & Community Manager, Arrowhead Game Studios (2022~)
    I manage and moderate all community channels, design and execute community events, handle long-term and short-term community planning and strategy, as well as overseeing documentation and support for vendors, volunteers, etc.
    I also work regularly with publishing partners on content for community campaigns, organize communications for internal and external beta testing partners, and complete regular reports for the development team and all internal stakeholders. I also handle the majority of copywriting for Helldivers 2’s marketing blogs and articles. While I was social media manager, I created and executed social campaigns and content.

  • Contributor, FEARZINE (2023~2025)
    Provides reviews, previews, and feature articles for indie and retro horror game focused magazine.

  • Contributor, Reload Magazine (2022~2024)
    Provides reviews, previews, and feature articles for indie first-person shooter focused magazine.

  • Freelance Writer, Wildlife Studios (2021-2022)

    Supplied writing, character lore, and UI text descriptions for Zooba mobile game.

  • Contributor, E1M1 Magazine (2021-2022)

    Provides reviews, previews, and feature articles for indie first-person shooter focused magazine.

  • Podcast Host, Failurepiece Theater (2020~)
    Regular co-host providing film criticism and review.

  • Writer, Shotspark Studios (2020-2021)
    Created script, text to accompany characters, locations, objects, and events in-game, as well as assisting game designers to create documentation for content and world-building.

  • Public Relations and Community Management, Shotspark Studios (2020-2022)

    Managed and moderated external communications, managed blogs, websites, fan sites, content creation, events, contests, public relations and handled communications from social media and communicated any applicable user feedback to the team.

  • PR & Community Manager, Voidpoint, LLC (2020-2023)
    Managed and moderated external communications, managed blogs, websites, fan sites, content creation, events, contests, public relations and handled communications from social media and communicated any applicable user feedback to the team. Worked regularly with publishing partners on content for community and social campaigns.

  • Adjunct English Instructor, Mineral Area College (2015-2019)
    Classroom instructor, curriculum designer, and course facilitator. Designed and instructed courses on writing skills, analysis, rhetoric, and classical argumentation.

  • English Instructor, Perryville Senior High School (2009-2018)
    Classroom instructor, curriculum designer, and course facilitator. Designed and instructed courses on film analysis, mythology, creative writing, and literary analysis.

  • Content Writer, Deep Six, Gamespy, (2003-2004)
    Created original articles and content for a Max Payne-focused division of the Gamespy Industries webring.

Education

  • Master of Arts, Professional Writing
    Southeast Missouri State University. 2016.

  • Bachelor of Arts, English
    Southern Illinois University. 2008.

Published Work (partial)

  • "The End of the World." Beyond the Blank Page. Pearson Custom Publishing, 2006.

  • "Enigma #1." Beyond the Blank Page. Pearson Custom Publishing, 2006.

  • B A Start (with Timothy Baskin). 2006.

  • "The Chester Bridge." Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi River Valley 14.1, 2014.

  • “203 Degrees Fahrenheit.” Delta Poetry Review. Jun 2023.

  • “The Nordic-American Fridge.” Delta Poetry Review. Oct 2023.