About Me

I grew up in Dallas, studied in Austin, moved overseas, taught, worked in finance, worked in gaming, came back to Dallas, went back to school, and have gone back to work in gaming.

There have been several lifetimes along that path.
I double-majored, studying film, literature, natural science, philosophy, theoretical math - all the things that the retro-genre fiction and midnight features on TV and in books growing up during that window of time had left me wondering about, but for which I got very few good answers. My parents were a school teacher and a rocket engineer.

After I graduated, I moved to Japan. I lived there for ten years; I worked for the Ministry of Education in Hokkaido, in international finance in Tokyo, and then finally at a gaming company. Along the way I got a black belt in kendo, learned how to snowboard, and to properly enjoy an onsen, eat sushi, drink tea, bow, sit, stand, clap, localize (which is so much more important than translation), get into the really good rail seats in afternoon train rush, etc. I ended up going on a pilgrimage hike around Shikoku; right after I finished I got sideswiped by some difficult news and needed to head back to the States.

Now I’m in another lifetime which is still ongoing. I’m mostly repatriated. I did hospice for my mom and got my dad’s life on track. I’ve gone back to school to learn how games come together, not just how they’re packaged and sold. These days I put both of those backgrounds to good use working on an independent game developed here in Dallas, Texas.

Be seeing you.