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The Gaming Advisor

Certified College/Career Advisor providing personal and professional success consultations.

Founder of The Academy of Productive Gamers, a community using the power of gaming to connect students and early career professionals w/ mentors in their industry Certified college advisor and career services professional that has been working in higher education for close to 10 years. In my current position I am the lead in coordinating programs and events regarding Career Readiness & Experientia

l Learning. I have been in previous positions within Admissions as a transfer and high school counselor helping students navigate the college research, selection, and application process. My goal for this page is to combine what I have learned from my experience in Higher Education with my love for video games and gaming culture to expand the reach of these success methods and resources to a larger audience, which will lead to more people accomplishing their goals and bettering their own communities. Follow this page, join the Facebook Group and Discord server (both soon to come) to connect with other page supporters and like-minded individuals who want to show the world that gamers are some of the most productive people in society!!!

06/11/2026

Today we had the opportunity to visit the San Antonio Spurs Impact Center as part of the work beginning through the SPC / Spurs Partnership for Equitable Career Pathways funded by the NBA Foundation.

Being able to help write and now help lead implementation of this initiative is something I’m extremely proud of. This work is about more than events or programming.

It’s about building real pathways for young people across San Antonio to connect education, career readiness, leadership development, and workforce opportunities.

Excited to continue collaborating with Spurs Sports & Entertainment, the NBA Foundation, and our incredible partners at St. Philip's College as we work to serve 3,500 youth ages 14–24 through this initiative.

A lot of work ahead, but today was a strong reminder of the impact this partnership can make.

Also, Spurs in 7

05/18/2026

Had an amazing weekend connecting with scholastic and university esport leads from across the county, as 17 states were represented at the Forge Scholastic Esports Championship!

My boys had a great time hanging out with me on Championship Sunday too 🥰

Looking forward to following up with the connections made this weekend to help enhance the esports ecosystem at SPC and across San Antonio!

04/17/2026

Photo dump to catch yall up on a super busy semester! This just catch up from my full-time job and isn’t even counting the side projects I’m working on as TheGamingAdvisor 😭

📸1-2: Helping to establish a relationship with as we plan for the inaugural Workforce Development Place-Based Training at the end of April!

📸3: Growing the program and currently going through our first officer election cycle.

📸4: Opening remarks from our VP for Academic Success at our 3rd Annual Allied Construction & Trades Symposium, where over 300 students learned from industry pros on upcoming trends and technologies to prepare for in their fields.

📸5: Our bi-annual Aircraft Technician Career Fair, where over 100 students got to establish relationships with potential employers and learn how to maximize their potential for career success by the time they graduate.

📸6-9: Gained professional connections and insights at the North American Manufacturing Expo & Summit that I plan to bring back to help our faculty incorporate them into their classrooms and experiential learning projects.

📸10-14: meeting hosted by where we strategized ways to enhance the talent pipeline for Life, Health, and Biomedical Sciences while enticing potential employers that could bring more opportunities to make Sam Antonio a national hub for life saving research and development!

Still ALOT to do before the end of the semester but looking forward to the challenge. It’ll all be worth it to see hard work and planning g come to fruition!

03/15/2026

Finally got my jersey! 🤩

Looking forward to repping the org whenever I can while I’m out supporting the scholastic and collegiate esport scenes 🫡

This is definitely the coolest jersey design I have in my collection!

Extra credit for those who can guess my favorite athlete of all time based on my jersey number 👀

01/02/2026

Happy New Year yall! 2025 was filled with triumphs and trials. Here’s a highlight recap:

1) January: tested my creative limits in the Recruit Challenge and eventually made the Top 25!

2) February: expanded workforce programming and reimagining recruitment and career development for students in our trade programs.

3) March: took my family to the Cesar Chavez March for Justice ✊ Wanted to make sure my kids learn about our culture and history through activities like these.

4) April: started networking more in the community and attended my first event 🤓

5) May: got more involved in the esports scene by networking at Championship tournament and .

6) June: Launched over the summer and started building the community of students to get an official program up and running.

7) July: our oldest son officially leveled up to the rank of Teenager 😭 The time has flown by too fast 🥲

8) August: made a family trip w/ my dad’s side to go watch the 🏟️ It was my sons’ first MLB game 🥹 Also attended another awesome

9) September: transitioned from seeing close up shop only to be picked up by along w/ several other key managers and leads from Limitless! 🤯🤩

10) October: spoke on a professional panel discussing the impact the collegiate esports in ’s inaugural SA Gaming Summit, part of Week.

I was also fortunate enough to serve on ’s inaugural Global Career Development Summit.

11) November: had compete in our 1st ever intercollegiate tournament hosted by !

12) December: graduated from ’s prestigious Alexander Briseño Leadership Development Program.

I also had a chance to present to ’s esports program about preparing for the collegiate esports scene!

Wrapped up the year celebrating one of my best friends getting married 🥰

Overall, it was an amazing year and can’t wait to see what 2026 has in store!

🎮♥️

12/26/2025

Merry Christmas and happy holidays!!! 🥰

Hope everyone has had a safe and restful holiday season so far.

🎮♥️

11/27/2025

Been super busy since the last post so here’s a quick recap 👀

1-3) As soon as I got home from Alabama I took my oldest w/ me to support , the collegiate esports club I advise, in the Smash Bros. Ultimate tournament organized by . Awesome to see collegiate teams from all over Texas gather to battle it out! We got eliminated early, but still cool to go toe to toe with some big name universities.

4-6) We had our esports club meeting later that week, which was the biggest attendance we’ve gotten so far! Even had some esports leads from SAC come by and swap ideas.

7-11) Final session of the new Fellowship series I started for our Blue Blazer Society, the student leader mentorship program I run. Series went over sound financial management, leadership, and professionally presenting ourselves.

These two student groups I lead are my happy place, where I can bring my innovation to students leaders eager to try new ideas and carve a path others can follow 🥹

Oh yeah, and my birthday passed 😅 Didn’t do anything really other than share some time and cake with my family 🥰

11/16/2025

What an incredible experience at the Thurgood Marshall College Fund Workforce Development Summit in Birmingham, Alabama. 🔥

So grateful our students from had the chance to be part of this 🙏 TMCF staff and partners showed up with so much intention, connecting students to real employment and university opportunities.

The whole summit was centered on empowering them to see their potential, own their confidence, and recognize that they are absolutely deserving of these pathways.

Loved connecting with other leaders from HBCUs across the country and seeing the collective commitment to student success.

SUPER proud of our students who attended… they represented beautifully. Already looking forward to bringing an even bigger group next time. ✨

10/22/2025

Honored to be invited to serve on the brand new Global Career Development Council through !

The Careers, Internships, and Global Learning Conference was an amazing experience that expanded my understanding of how to better prepare our students for the global workforce, and introduced me to a network of career services, experieitnail learning, and global learning experts from around the world to help me along the way.

Their insights were both a validation that I am on the right track with my vision, and an eye opener that I can be doing more intentional collaborations to ensure our students have the worldwide advantage in their long-term career success.

Thank you Mario and Andres for the invitation and your leadership in this enourmous endeavor. Your reassurance that I deserve to be in this space means the world to me!

Looking forward to continuing to work with this group to make a global wide impact on student career success.

10/12/2025

The inaugural SA Gaming Summit was a great day of learning and networking! 🎉🥳🎉

Thank you and the , and all the volunteers for all the work you put into making this such a successful event 👏

It was an honor to be involved in the panel discussing esports’ impact on our local college scenes, and the future opportunities we have to create a city-wide esport ecosystem of student support from scholastic to collegiate and beyond!

Our students appreciated the opportunity to learn from and network with professionals in the local gaming, tech, and esports industries.

The sessions and expo hall were filled with great advice on how we can evolve SPC Ambush Gaming from a club into a full fledged program!

Can’t wait for next year’s summit!!!

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