Rick brings a passion for railroads and over 20 years of product design and program management experience to Cascade Game Foundry. Prior to co-founding CGF, Rick worked as the Lead Game Designer on Microsoft Train Simulator 2. Before that, he supported Microsoft’s Train Simulator franchise in varying capacities for almost eight years. Rick started at Microsoft in 1998 and has also worked for AT&T Wireless and Boeing doing instructional design and development, including simulations. Rick’s a well-known personality in the railroad hobby industry, and he brings deep insight into the railroad hobbyist consumer and what they look for in a simulation-based entertainment product. Rick graduated from California State University (Chico) with a degree in Instructional Technology/Communications. In his spare time, Rick enjoys photography, golf, automobiles, and railroad models and history.