Champlain College

In 2012, I accepted an appointment as Assistant Professor of Game Design at Champlain College in beautiful Burlington, VT. Teaching is immensely rewarding — being surrounded by earnest, hungry young developers requires you to keep up with the latest practices, tools, and platforms in a rapidly evolving field.

Course development: Visual Communication for Game Designers (later adopted department-wide).

Courses of instruction: Game Production I, II & Senior Production Capstone · Principles of Game Design · Game History & Development.

Other duties: curriculum assessment, student advising, eLearning faculty coach, faculty advisor for the student IGDA chapter, entrance portfolio evaluation, Champlain Game Academy summer camp, industry outreach (GDC, MIGS), Faculty Welfare Committee, Sophomore Symposium speaker (2014, 2015).

I mentored 100+ students, many now working at AAA studios including Ubisoft, Insomniac, and 2K.