VP of Events at Valhallan, the country's largest youth esports league. Online league play across 36 states feeding into a national championship event, from the schedule grid to the floor on game day. Seven years deep, in-house ops lead.
Youth esports at national scale is a coordination challenge before it's a gaming one. Hundreds of rostered teams qualify through online seasons run across the country, then fly to a single venue and play for a championship in front of live cameras. Every minute of that grid touches a contract, players, parents, casters, the venue, the broadcast partners, the platform.
The job is to make the whole sequence land smoothly: on schedule, on rule, and matched to the experience the players and families signed up for.
I sit on top of the operating stack, league structure, tournament structure, dispute resolution, on-floor staffing, and route the rest. Seven competitive titles, all running parallel. Format calls (BR vs. team-vs-team, BO3 vs. BO5, pool vs. finals) are the structural decisions; everything else cascades from them.
The kids only get one nationals a year. The parents booked the flights, the casters showed up, the venue is locked in. Everything has to land the first time, in the right order, at the right volume, and the team behind it puts in months of work to make game day feel inevitable.