Experience

Pixelberry Studios

Senior Game Writer II / Writing Leadership (Choices: Stories You Play) — May 2022-Present

  •  Manage and oversee the creative direction of branching narrative visual novel stories for app (iOS peak #4 Grossing Games, #9 Grossing Overall); assign projects

    for team of 15 writers; and review launch content as part of Executive Review Team to ensure quality before weekly DLC releases to players

  • Greenlit projects for app as part of the Slate and Greenlight Teams; identify popular trends and holes in app’s slate

  • Took over as Creative Lead for 3 behind-schedule projects, brought each one ahead of schedule by identifying problem areas in content and process, then

    delegating tasks to writers

  • As Floating Writer, assist behind-schedule projects by writing and editing project chapters, matching pre-existing tone, voice, and style

  • Pitched, wrote, and edited 4 successful experimental short form books, including a spin-off book of app’s top-performing series and geo-specific content for India

  • Oversee and mentor teams on 11 books, train new Writing Leads through brainstorming and feedback on their chapters

  • Hire and manage relationships with external writers and maintain the budget and work quality for those external writers

  • Create technical documentation across all areas of internal processes for writers, with input from other department leads

  • Lead the Book Performance Data Team, analyze data and identify takeaways after a book’s completion in spreadsheets for teams’ postmortem discussion

  • Maintain weekly data spreadsheets with the books’ KPIs and update slide decks for C-Suite with key content data analysis

Senior Game Writer I (Choices: Stories You Play) — May 2021-May 2022

  • Took over as Creative Lead for 2 projects with low quality, and achieved successful release by rewriting all chapters, developing new plotlines, polishing existing

    content, etc.

  • As part of the Executive Review Team, reviewed projects’ launch content and provided final feedback before release

  • Collaborated with a pod of writers, producers, artists, and QA to publish 3 books on the app, including a top-performing VIP book

  • Final Passer for the company’s top-performing series; editing all chapters and providing feedback to the Creative Lead

  • Provided constructive feedback on product covers and art assets as part of the Art Council Feedback Team, ensuring standards were maintained while keeping

    budget in check

  • As Writer Liaison for the Community Management team, edited player-facing social media content, created hype campaigns for new books, and monitored fan

    engagement on posts

Game Writer II (Choices: Stories You Play) — Jun 2020-May 2021

  • Co-Creative Lead on drama book Baby Bump 2; including delegating tasks, maintaining schedules, leading writers’ rooms, writing, and editing across over 20

    chapters

  • Assisted behind-schedule projects by writing premium content, matching the tone and style of pre-existing content

  • Managed and mentored multiple direct reports across a wide range of genres, developing their skills and providing feedback

  • Brainstormed a variety of genre-specific stories, resulting in fiscally-successful books, including medical drama, political, and erotica

Game Writer I (Choices: Stories You Play) — May 2018-Jun 2020

  • As Creative Lead, pitched, brainstormed, wrote, and edited Regency romance trilogy, Desire & Decorum, one of the top 10 series on app

  • Led writers’ rooms and completed writing the High School Story trilogy, one of the top 5 highest-grossing series; oversaw the transition of the IP to a team of new

    writers responsible for the sequel trilogy

Junior Game Writer (High School Story, Hollywood U, & Choices: Stories You Play) — Oct 2016-May 2018

  • Pitched, brainstormed, and wrote original quest lines for town-builder/RPG apps High School Story and Hollywood U

  • Transitioned the High School Story IP to the new app Choices as a main writer; collaborated across multiple departments to launch all 15 chapters at once, instead

    of a typical weekly cadence

Education

The University of Texas at Austin, Double Major

Moody College of Communication

  • Bachelor of Journalism, Highest Honors – Dec. 2015

College of Fine Arts

  • Bachelor of Arts in Theatre & Dance, High Honors – Dec. 2015

Projects

Choices: Stories You Play, iOS and Android App — Pixelberry

Creative Lead — 2018-Present

  • Successfully launched 12 books as lead; written/edited 140+ chapters

Final Passer — 2017-Present

  • Editor for 7 books; 130+ chapters

Writer — 2017-2018

High School Story, iOS and Android App — Pixelberry

Writer — 2016-2017

Hollywood U, iOS and Android App — Pixelberry

Writer — 2016-2017

Skills

Game Development

Branching Narrative, Creative Writing, Editing, Proofreading, Scripting Logic, Mobile Games

Technology

Adobe Audition, Adobe Photoshop, Audacity, Basecamp, Confluence, Figma, Google Suite, iMovie, iWork, Microsoft Office, Miro, Trello, WordPress

Interests/Hobbies

Baking, Collecting Board Games, Crocheting, Knitting, RPG Video Games (Kingdom Hearts, Mass Effect, Baldur’s Gate 3), Fantasy and Romance Novels (A Court of Thorns and Roses, Outlander), Penguins, TV & Movies (Avatar: The Last Airbender, Justice League, Star Wars)