CV

Full-time Employment

Verified Creator • Otellino Mods

March 2025 – Present

Self-employed at Otellino Mods, working on Verified Creations for Bethesda Game Studios titles such as The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Starfield; as well as freelance work for other Verified Creators.

Senior Technical Designer (Missions) • Build A Rocket Boy

January 2020 – November 2020 | November 2021 – March 2025

MINDSEYE

An ambitious AAA game led by Leslie Benzies. For further information: https://www.buildarocketboy.com/game/

• Assisting in training and leading junior technical designers.
• Implementing new gameplay and missions to given spec.
• Working closely with the design team in strike teams to iterate quickly on specific aspects of the game.
• Prototyping based on requests from the design team prior to passing features on to the code team.
• Creating and maintaining living tech spec documents detailing implementations of systems.

Design Director • Orthrus Studios

May 2017 – November 2019 | November 2020 – August 2021

Distant Kingdoms

Re-joined Orthrus Studios as Design Director to see Distant Kingdoms through to release in Early Access.

• Evaluated and re-scoped numerous features to fit within delivery dates.
• Overhauled design documentation to a consistent standard to ensure readability and accuracy.
• Communicated with all project stakeholders to ensure satisfactory delivery of features.
• Worked with the programming team to define requirements for a text-based scripting language
• Designed and balanced various pieces of in-game content via our proprietary Vox scripting language.
• Extensive content design, creating levels, designing and implementing tutorials, events and dialogue.
• Creation of UI wireframes and iteration of game UX.

Freelancing & Personal Projects

Designer • Bethesda Game Studios Creation Club

February 2018 – November 2021

Working professionally with Bethesda Game Studios as a Design contractor in the Creation Club to create official DLC for Fallout 4.

• Pitching projects to take forward as official content.
• Implementing art assets, quests and game systems via the Bethesda Game Studios Creation Kit.
• Iterating features and functionality in tandem with the Quality Assurance team to improve upon and fix content.

Modder • Various Games • 2008 – Present

America Rising – A Tale of the Enclave

A large story mod for Fallout 4, and spiritual successor of my previous mod, For The Enclave, with over half a million downloads across PC and Xbox One.

• Designed an intricate main storyline that integrated seamlessly with Fallout 4’s story.
• Implemented over 20 levels, art assets, created dozens of characters and managed a large cast of voice actors.
• Conducted playtests to identify flow issues and acted on feedback.
• Created, implemented and balanced multiple quests using the Papyrus scripting language.

For The Enclave

An extensive story mod for Fallout: New Vegas at over a quarter of a million downloads.

• Implemented dozens of levels, characters, art assets and managed a large cast of voice actors.
• Implemented and scripted the main quest and side quests using obScript.
• Designed and scripted an entirely new construction and management framework for a player-run bunker.