Resume
Work Experience
07/2008
Writer | CBC, Toronto, Canada
Provided extensive coverage of 2008’s E3 Business & Media Summit for the CBC News Tech Bytes blog.
07/2008
Writer | Rock Paper Shotgun, Bath, UK
Provided extensive coverage of 2008’s E3 Business & Media Summit.
06/2005-Current
Contributing Editor | Gamasutra, San Francisco, USA
Provide and edit news, interviews and show coverage for the important games industry website and it’s sister sites - including Worlds In Motion and Serious Games Source.
02/2008-07/2008
Community Manager | The Dobbs Challenge, San Francisco, USA
As community manager of the inaugural Dobbs Challenge, I helped to develop the contest and create the website. As part of my duties I updated the website, communicated with entrants and the community (via e-mail and through moderating the Dobbs Challenge forum) and judged entries.
11/2007
Panelist | Montreal International Game Summit 2007, Montreal, Canada
Took part in the closing session of the Montreal International Game Summit, a panel discussion on games journalists and their importance in, and interaction with, the games industry.
11/2007
Speaker | Future Play 2007, Toronto, Canada
Led a session discussing Machinima’s history and its place as part of game culture, including showing and critiquing some famous works in the genre.
09/2007-Current
Writer | Edge, Bath, England
Provide news interviews and features, including a six-page feature interview with Nintendo’s Yoshiaki Koizumi in the February 2008 issue.
01/2007-Current
Content Director | Independent Games Festival Mobile, San Francisco, USA
As content director of the inaugural IGF Mobile, I helped develop the festival, created and updated the website, judged entries and maintained communication with entrants, finalists and judges before helping present the awards at GDC 2008, which included an IGF Mobile Pavillion at the GDC Expo.
01/2007-Current
Writer | Exclaim!, Toronto, Canada
Provide reviews of cinema and DVD releases for the Canadian music magazine.
12/2006-04/2008
Editor | Games On Deck, San Francisco, USA
Provide daily news and weekly features, along with other editorial duties, for the mobile games industry website.
11/2006
Writer | GamesIndustry.biz, Brighton, England
Provided features on the launch of the PS3 and Wii in North America.
06/2006-01/2007
Writer | Broken Pencil, Toronto, Canada
Provided features and reviews on the independent gaming and film scenes for Broken Pencil, the magazine of zine culture and the independent arts.
06/2006-09/2006
Columnist | Gamesetwatch, San Francisco, USA
Provided “Letters From The Metaverse’”, a column covering the emerging virtual world of Second Life.
05/2006-Current
Writer | The Globe and Mail, Toronto, Canada
Provide games reviews for the online technology section of the Globe and Mail, the newspaper with the largest circulation in Canada.
011/2005-Current
Writer | Eurogamer, Brighton, England
Provide regular reviews and features for the respected, and popular, British games journalism website.
Provided extensive coverage of 2006’s Electronics Entertainment Expo.
09/2005-Current
Writer | Twitch Film, Toronto, Canada
Provide coverage and reviews for respected Canadian film website Twitch Film, including some of the world’s earliest reviews of films premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
09/2005-Current
Contributing Editor | Torontoist, Toronto, Canada
Provide regular film coverage, city news, and a weekly film column, for the respected Toronto city blog, a member of the Gothamist network.
06/2005-03/2008
Writer | Gamasutra/Game Developer Magazine, San Francisco, USA
Provided product reviews, interviews and show coverage for the important games industry website and publication.
06/2005-Current
Columnist | Game Reactor, Aalborg, Denmark
Provide a monthly opinion column for Game Reactor magazine, Denmark’s biggest games magazine. Translated into Danish before publication.
06/2004-06/2007
Writer | Plan B Magazine, Brighton, England
Provided monthly reviews, news and opinion columns for music publication Plan B’s games section.
06/2003-Current
Writer | Insert Credit, San Francisco, USA
Writer for the seminal new games journalism website. My work has included interviews, reviews, and in depth reports on trade shows such as London’s ECTS.
08/2004-06/2005
Writer | The Banter, Paisley, Scotland
Writer for Paisley University’s student newspaper.
06/2002-07/2005
Senior Tester | Absolute Quality Inc., Glasgow, Scotland
As a senior tester, my work involved gameplay and regression testing and bug report writing, For two weeks in development of my first project I took over the project as lead tester. Later I performed tester duties on a cell phone games, PC ports, and European cell phone provider Orange’s content deployment system. I led the European arm of the testing for a PS2 game in which I managed a team of 6 language testers. I last worked for them as an engineer porting games between cell phone handsets.
Education
08/2001- 06/2005
BSc. Hons Computer Games Technology | Paisley University, Paisley, Scotland
Learned a broad spectrum of skills including 3D modeling and animation with Lightwave; programming with C++ and Java on PCs, mobile phones and PS2s; game design and artificial intelligence. My honors year dissertation was an investigation of emergent AI for sheep flocking.
08/2001-06/2005
Japanese Stages 1-4 | Strathclyde University/Glasgow University, Glasgow, Scotland
These classes encouraged development of conversation skills, vocabulary and expressions, introduced complex grammatical points, and practice in Hiragana/Katakana and Kanji.
Awards Recieved
12/2003
Japanese Language Proficiency Test Level 4 | Japanese Embassy, London, England
Requires mastery of the basic elements of grammar, knowing about 100 Kanji and 800 words, and the ability to engage in simple conversation and to read and write short, simple sentences.
Last Updated: July 23rd, 2008.
August 16th, 2006