Design Work for Full Sail University (2011-2021)

From 2011 to 2021, I was department chair in Full Sail University’s bachelor of science in Game Design program. Unfortunately, Full Sail wholly owns all that work, so I cannot display any of it here. However, I can discuss highlights:

• We grew from our first cohort of four students to the largest degree program of its kind in the world.
• I designed and taught courses in design tools, systems design, human psychology, public speaking and presentation design, design and development analysis, analytics and decision making, and advanced game design.
• I managed a team of excellent designers, developers, and other instructors from all kinds of backgrounds.
• We launched new courses every four weeks on numerous topics, often with accompanying technical projects in tools such as Unity, Unreal, Javascript (Perlenspiel), and others.
• I developed tools and policies for academic honesty that are now employed campus-wide.
• I conducted a longitudinal study of entering students’ skills in order to understand what prerequisite skills signaled better long-term outcomes in order to better design entrance requirements and foundational coursework.
• I won an award in 2013 for Academic Innovation.