Bio

Jonathan is an experienced sound designer with a proven track record of high level sound design and audio leadership across a variety of genres, platforms, and pipelines. He has shipped titles across fantasy RPG, sci-fi, competitive multiplayer FPS, and tactical turn based genres. His recent focus areas include hero weapons, creatures, UI, and foley, and his background as a linear engineer lends itself well to IGC and cinematic design and mixing.

As an Audio lead, Jonathan’s experience building audio systems and managing teams have given him a deep knowledge of the full development process. He is comfortable communicating with team members and across disciplines, and will not hesitate to do so when appropriate. He holds a strong sense of ownership over his responsibilities, and he takes pride in delivering impactful work in any capacity.

Full Credit List

Star Wars Zero Company | Sr. Sound Designer  (2026 Release)

• Senior sound designer embedded with Bit Reactor/EA.

• Sound design support across all areas of the game including character design, destructables, foley, and cinematics.

• Full implementation support in Wwise & blueprints. 

Reflection Studios (2026 Release) | Audio Lead (2023-2026)

• Responsible for all audio direction, systems, and pipelines across all audio disciplines.

• Introduced middleware into the project and built FMOD project from the ground up.

• Managed a team of sound designers and composers, ensuring consistent high quality while maintaining organization, strong communication with client, and matching pace with production.

• Worked closely with engineers to design various audio systems, authored the majority of audio hooks in C# environment.

Sanzaru Games (2 Unannounced Titles [cancelled]) | Sound Designer (2024-2026)

• Sound design focused in hero weapons & foley, gadgets, and vehicles for a well known sci-fi IP.

• Designed and executed a new Foley system that utilized a combination of shared and unique layers that increased the quality and detail level of each asset while drastically reducing the previously unmanageable amount of hours spent on each character.

• Built a “wind intensity” system to unify ambience beds and oneshots and create a more immersive experience.

• Contributed to a comprehensive internal project sound library with unique recorded and designed SFX to be used throughout the project. 

Asgard’s Wrath 2 | Sound Design & Implementation (2022-2024)

• Senior Sound Designer embedded with Sanzaru.

• Heavy focus on Hero weapon and boss creature sound design. 

• Also worked on Hero foley, various props, ambience, and IGCs.

• Worked in BP to build hooks and implementation solutions for each of the 4 playable heroes in the game, along with their highly unique weapons.

Spectre: Divide | Sound Design & Project Audio Lead (2021-2022)

• First Audio team member in the production cycle.

• Proposed and implemented Wwise into the project, built Wwise project out from the ground up, planning for future audio needs at an early stage.

• Set the audio tone & direction for the game.

• Worked with engineers to design and build the weapon audio system.

• Sound designed and implemented all weapon and foley SFX. 

WWE 2K20/21 | Sound Design & Implementation (2019-2020)

• Built out new dynamic crowd system, harvesting in game crowd layers from live match recordings.

• Sound designed and tagged several hundred animations.

• Provided a detailed analysis of legacy audio systems from a past partnership, proposed updated systems that were implemented in later releases.

NBA 2K20/21 | Sound Designer (2019-2020)

• Sound design and foley for career mode vignettes and cinematics.

• Edited thousands of lines of dialogue to spec.