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 works in IT but haunts the fringes of the video games industry, with a focus on production and QA. When not occupied with schoolwork, 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.

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 video games will always be his first love (and developing them will always take up much of his free time), Sage will be doing IT work with the mortgage company Freddie Mac starting in June 2010. Sage has worked in the games industry, though; 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.