Culmen International

Designer

• Design, develop, test, facilitate, and refine serious games and simulation-supported activities for federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, regional, and interagency audiences
• Translate exercise objectives, plans, policies, capabilities, corrective actions, and operational challenges into game concepts, rules, roles, decision points, scenario modules, and measurable outcomes
• Develop realistic scenarios, storylines, injects, timelines, participant materials, facilitation questions, control-cell products, and Master Scenario Events Lists
• Apply HSEEP doctrine and instructional, experiential-learning, and game-design principles to exercises and training activities
• Incorporate computer simulation, model outputs, visual interfaces, video vignettes, video injects, and virtual-delivery capabilities into exercise programs
• Collaborate with modeling and simulation specialists, systems designers, planners, facilitators, evaluators, analysts, multimedia personnel, and subject matter experts
• Support planning meetings, MSEL development and synchronization meetings, exercise execution, hotwashes, and after-action meetings
• Prototype and playtest game mechanics and supporting materials; collect feedback and revise products
• Develop evaluation criteria and data-collection opportunities for assessing decisions, actions, coordination, plans, policies, and corrective-action implementation
• Review technical and analytical products and interpret modeling or simulation results for exercise design and real-time participant play
• Prepare and deliver briefings, demonstrations, facilitator guidance, participant instructions, technical documentation, and decision-support materials
• Maintain awareness of industry standards, emerging technologies, virtual environments, and best practices
• Complete recurring and short-turn assignments within established deadlines and maintain organized project files and deliverables
• Travel as authorized to support planning conferences, exercise delivery, evaluation, training, response activities, or stakeholder meetings

Game Designer

Systems Engineer

• Analyze operational, exercise, evaluation, planning, and corrective-action requirements and translate them into system architecture, application, database, interface, and workflow designs
• Design, develop, configure, test, document, and maintain electronic tools and applications supporting exercise management, participant registration, attendance tracking, data collection, evaluation, corrective-action tracking, and reporting
• Create or update system designs and applications in response to evolving HHS requirements, emerging threats, program priorities, and user feedback
• Integrate data from exercise, training, real-world response, planning, and corrective-action activities while maintaining traceability to authoritative source information
• Develop processes and tools improving data quality, standardization, organization, labeling, transfer, analysis, visualization, and reporting
• Maintain operational availability of databases, analytical tools, and other E2A2 systems; troubleshoot issues and coordinate timely corrective action
• Support integration of modeling, simulation, virtual delivery, visual interfaces, multimedia products, and model outputs into exercise and evaluation environments
• Develop system requirements, functional specifications, process maps, user guidance, test plans, configuration documentation, and other technical deliverables
• Collaborate with program managers, planners, facilitators, evaluators, analysts, developers, and subject matter experts to validate requirements and ensure operational relevance
• Prepare and present technical demonstrations, analytical briefings, decision memos, status updates, and recommendations to interagency stakeholders
• Support recurring and short-turn technical assignments, system enhancements, document reviews, and file-processing requirements within Government-established deadlines
• Ensure technical products and electronic content comply with applicable HHS security, privacy, records-management, and Section 508 accessibility requirements
• Travel as authorized to support planning sessions, exercises, evaluations, real-world response activities, conferences, or system implementation requirements

Game Designer

Systems Designer