As the Center of Excellence Administrator and Industry Liaison, Jake supports the Game Center by organizing career development programming and advisement, establishing partnerships with game studios and other institutions, and developing opportunities for students and the incubator.
Jake is a production, design, and operations specialist, working in the games industry since 2018. Before joining the Game Center, he led teams at studios such as Funomena, Pontoco, and Pixelberry, and worked in codevelopment prototyping and publishing partnerships for Meta, Microsoft, Roblox, and Amazon. He is an advocate for students and new developers, and formerly led the Experimental Game Workshop team at GDC to help platform inspiring new work.
Jake received a BA at the University of California Santa Cruz, with a double major in Game Design and Digital Media Production. He has also worked previously in events, videography, marketing, and IT.
Outside of work, you might find him writing homebrew tabletop RPG modules, cooking lots of food from the farmer’s market, and biking all over the city.