Name: Andy Sage
Age: 21
Location: Lafayette, IN

Favorite Prime Number: 19
Favorite Onomatopoeia: snikt
Favorite Polyhedron: Dodecahedron (12 sides)
Favorite Image Macro: LET ME EXPLAIN, I AM A DOG

Andy Sage (who goes by "Sage") is a senior in the College of Technology at Purdue University. He's pursuing jobs in the video games industry, with a focus on production and QA. When not occupied with schoolwork or job applications, he develops user content for the Rock Band Network, plays games like Dominion and Settlers of Catan, and practices speaking in the third person.

Sage attended Penn High School in northern Indiana through 2006, where he did a bunch of high school stuff and then became a National Merit finalist. He selected Purdue University for higher education because of the school's wonderful technology program, its lovely campus, and because they offered him a full tuition scholarship. He is part of the school's honors program and will graduate with honors in May 2010, barring a meteorite strike or raptor attack.

Video games have been Sage's primary passion since a young age -- music games in particular after being introduced to Dance Dance Revolution in 2001. He started creating custom content for music games in 2005 with modules for StepMania, a DDR clone, and has since expanded to the Guitar Hero and Rock Band series. His custom songs received acclaim from many sources, eventually leading to a Rock Band Network authoring position with Rhythm Authors.

While working part-time with the Rock Band Network is a sweet gig, Sage is currently seeking full-time employment in the games industry after graduation. It won't be the first time; he interned for Zeitgeist Games during the summer of 2009, learning the ropes of Scrum production methodology, bug-tracking software, and several other disciplines. Before that, he interned for two summers as an IT peon at Northwestern University.

Sage has also designed several Web sites, including beadsprites.com (a now-defunct crafts business) and pksage.com (with which you may be familiar).

For more information about Sage's work, please check out his portfolio.