Name: Andy Sage
Age: 23
Location: Ashburn, VA

Favorite Bill Murray Movie: Lost in Translation
Favorite Breakfast Food: French toast
Favorite Beatle: George
Favorite List of Favorites: Things that start with "B"

Man, that picture's terrifying, isn't it? It's actually from my engagement photos. I mean, uh, Andy Sage's engagement photos. Drat. Let's start over.

Andy Sage is a graduate of Purdue University's College of Technology. He works in IT but nurtures dreams of working with tabletop or video games. When not working or caught helplessly in the vicegrip of the Internet, he develops user content for the Rock Band Network, thinks up indie game initiatives, plays tabletop games like Dominion and Settlers of Catan, and practices speaking in the third person.

Andy 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 possibly the full tuition scholarship. He was part of the school's honors program and graduated with a B.S. in May 2010. It was pretty cool!

Games and game design have been his primary passion since a young age -- music video 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 eventually made song modules for 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. He has since independently published several RBN songs.

Andy currently does IT work with the mortgage giant Freddie Mac. He has worked in the games industry, though; he interned for ZeeGee 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.

He 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 Andy Sage's work, please check out his portfolio.