About Me

I was born and raised in Madison, WI.

I went to college 2 times, and decided one day to join the Navy; letting me sail literally around the world!

I live and breathe games, I’m a nerd, I love my wife, I love my dogs, and I currently play too much Disc Golf.

Ask me about the random Twitch Giveaway that got me hired into the game industry!

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My Favorite Games

Personal Project:
LLM-Powered Discord Bot

Wanting to explore large language models (LLM’s) in a fun, hands-on way, I connected my home media server with an LLM and a Discord bot. On the server, I run a Docker container with a GGUF LLM alongside “Red”, a Discord bot on my private server.

I built a custom Python COG (plugin) for Red that integrates the bot with the locally hosted LLM. With this setup, Red is able to:

  • Respond to prompts in a Discord channel, similar to ChatGPT or Gemini.

  • Randomly “chime in” on conversations, behaving like a “real” member of the server.

  • Reply to message chains while remembering the context of the discussion.

This project gave me a chance to learn more about LLM’s, their strengths, and limitations, while also making my discord moderation tool something fun to poke at. The full code is on my GitHub.

Gaming Accomplishments

  • ESPN’s #4 Rated Player in COD 4: Modern Warfare 2009

    • Ended the world record run of a team that was 100-0!

  • Won the first Warzone and Modern Warfare(2019) tournaments!

    • These were only the first ever because they were held a week before release and dev only(lol)

  • A founding member of 2Arc, helped Carbine test their content for the MMO “Wildstar”

    • In Wildstar we went to have multiple world first and seconds, this was after I ran a guild that also had server firsts in FFXIV

  • Recruited and initially coached the Heroes of the Storm 2Arc esports team

    • They would go on to have multiple high tournament placements and finishes

Driving Community Interaction

I will forever hold my time on VALORANT close to my heart because Riot allowed me to engage with the player base when and how I wanted. Through multiple interviews each major update, starting my own TikTok/Instagram Reels series “Ranked Fact Friday”, and writing my own articles, I truly felt like I could listen to and respond to the problems the community faced.

Engagement By The Numbers

Founded Ranked Fact Friday, a cross-platform initiative explaining ranked mechanics and systems through short-form educational content. TikTok posts alone amassed over 825K+ total engagements, including 770K+ likes and 36K+ saves, with the most popular video exceeding 120K likes.

Drove community transparency and education via Reddit as u/EvrMoar, actively engaging in deep mechanical breakdowns of the ranking system, performance bonuses, and MMR; all earning consistent top-rated responses in VALORANT communities.

Wrote multiple articles for the official Riot Games website, keeping the community keyed into new Competitive Changes or upcoming content releases.