Los Angeles County, California, United States
• Supported the Star Wars Unlimited Galactic Championship 2025 in a variety of roles, including retail, registration, registration support, and prize support. • Supported Asmodee’s Exhibitor Hall presence at GenCon 2025 by demoing Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle Earth and Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings: The Trick-Taking Game across the length of the convention. • Supported Asmodee’s Exhibitor Hall presence at PAX Unplugged 2025 by demoing Dungeons and Kittens across the length of the convention (16 sessions).
• Organized and led operations for the event space for the Tabletop Department at Another Furry Convention, September 2024 • AFC 2024 had an economic impact to the city of Ontario, California of over $500,000 • 5000+ attendees in 2025, up from our flagship con in 2024 • Promoted to Gaming Director between September 2024 and September 2025, responsible for the Tabletop, Arcade and Console gaming departments • Worked with/managed leads, multiple vendors, and a staff of 20-30 volunteers • Managed a budget of $15,000 • Conducted multiple tournaments in the Console department, including a charity event that delivered 150% of its donation goal, contributing to the overall charity donation of $40,000 from Anthro SoCal • Troubleshoot events and enforce both convention and venue policies • Work with multiple department directors, including logistics, programming, technical, marketing and creative • Supervise events, troubleshoot problems, direct attendees, enforce convention/venue policies and remain on site throughout entirety of convention • One year of prep work before each convention • Work with managers, directors, vendors, and leads to find new ways to innovate and new events to entertain attendees, including scouting, recruiting, and hosting new independent video game developers for the Console Gaming Department and new gaming events for the Tabletop Gaming Department.
• Campaigns include Simi Change slate (2018, running Dawn Gray for Simi Valley mayor, Ruth Luevanos and Phil Loos for City Council), Joe Ayala for Mayor (2020), Kameren Chase Neal for Calleguas Municipal Water District, Division 1 (2020), Ruth Luevanos for Congress (2020-2022), and Mary Poitier for Mayor (2022). • Researched various political figures, issues, and assets across multiple online networks and resources to support the candidates and inform them of relevant information • Served on endorsements committee for Simi Valley Democratic Club • Served on endorsements team for Joe Ayala for Mayor campaign • Provided logistical and security support for various marches and events from June 2020 to present, including organizing food trucks for a march of several hundred people • Campaign Manager, Senior Aide and Scheduler for Ruth Luevanos during a congressional campaign—duties included accompanying candidate to various events, keeping the candidate’s schedule and apprising the candidate of changes/opportunities, taking organized and detailed notes, fielding emails, helping organize and staff various events, and canvassing • Wrote multiple political marketing emails for Ruth Luevanos for Congress campaign, and helped set up a campaign YouTube page and upload multiple videos to same according to established campaign branding • Campaign Manager for the Ruth Luevanos for Ventura County Community College District Board of Trustees Area 4 Campaign
• Grew the Party Games department in 3 years from just under 30 events to 144 • Lead a team of 5-7 volunteers • Regularly coordinate with roughly 35-40 Game Masters running an average of 90+ events to serve 2000 to 2500 attendees • Regularly coordinate with 17 other department heads across the convention • Create extensive required and supplemental materials, including master schedules, shift schedules, preview books for attendees, daily schedules, sign-in sheets, tracking sheets for sign-in sheets, and codes of conduct. • Create badges for GMs and volunteers • Review and approve submitted events through Strategicon online submission system, schedule and assign them to rooms/spaces assigned as my responsibility • Lead my department acting as support and logistics for these events • Troubleshoot events and enforce both convention and hotel policies • Work from 9 am till 4 am for four days during each convention, three times a year • Six weeks to two months of prep work before each convention • Supervise events, troubleshoot problems, direct attendees, enforce convention/hotel problems and remain on site throughout entirety of convention • Assist in screening attendants for vaccination information and assisting with obtaining badges and information in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic • Helped organize and run events for four online virtual shows over a combination of Zoom and Discord, February 2020-March 2021 • Stay aware and informed of new board game releases and opportunities and maintain a network of designers and publishers to facilitate exhibition of new prototypes and eventual board game products within the Indie/New Games department • Currently writing Standards and Practices Guides to train my replacements, as of 2/27/23