I've been doing game audio all my professional life and can't imagine doing anything else. I'm enthralled by the creative, compositional challenges, the technical issues and the business challenges. It's a tremendously exciting time to be in the industry. Since I started in 1987, I've witnessed (and helped transform) the industry go from "bleeps and bloops" to the current surround sound, high-power, high-fidelity systems we have today.

I was honored to have been the recipient of the Game Audio Network Guild’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008, and have been awarded Best Sound award from Sega, received awards for XACT, GameSoundCon and XMA. I was also quite surprised when I discovered that the band, The Pixies, had covered one of my video game compositions (Theme from NARC) and released it on two of their CD’s. In 2017, i was inducted into the Pinball Expo Hall of Fame

I thoroughly enjoy sharing knowledge and experience about the industry—it was a staple of my 10 years at Microsoft where I headed the audio technology group for Xbox, and is one of the reasons I created GameSoundCon: to help educate the next generation of interactive composers and sound designers.

 

My current projects include:

• Audio Director at Digital Dreams Entertainment, maker of Mutant Football League,

• Founder and Executive Director at GameSoundCon,

• Principle Lecturer at DigiPen Institute of Technology, where I helped devise their game audio degree programs

• President: Game Audio Network Guild

A few other projects I’ve been involved in:
-Composer, sound designer for approximately 150 video, pinball and other games
-Primary architect for Xbox audio system (also did the “Boot Sound”) https://www.gamesoundcon.com/post/creating-the-original-xbox-boot-sound-using-old-school-game-audio-techniques-in-a-modern-console
-Primary architect for Xbox 360 audio system
-Architect for “XACT” among the earliest game audio design tools and the Xbox 360 "XMA" audio compression format
-Designer of BSMT2000, arcade game sound chip
-Designer of QSound’s Q1 3D Sound chip for arcade chips
-Assistant to film and jingle composer John Tatgenhorst

I also am inventor on about 20 patents in audio and game technology