Christopher "CJ" Mello
Games I played and worked on:
When I was younger I played a few board games such as Axis and Allies and Fortress America. In my console days I bought up any war game title I could find from Sea Battle to P.T.O, P.T.O. II and Operation Europe. Later I ventured into the PC realm and got interested in the TS's Campaign Series. Here is where I met Glenn Saunders in 1999. In the summer of that year he posed a question to me. I was asked if I would be interested in playtesting the next game in the series. The game was Rising Sun and it was the first title I ever worked on. For a bit a trivia I can be found in the Bootcamp scenarios 2-4 as Sgt. Mello. After the completion of that project I moved on and followed him to John Tiller's next series, The Panzer Campaign Series.
In the PzC I have worked on the battlepack for Smolensk '41, Normandy '44, Kharkov '42 and Panzer Campaigns IV. Of course as this series continues you can expect me to be there too.
Other games I enjoy are Combat Mission, Age of Empires, Campaign 1776 and The War of 1812.
Day Job:
Since 1990 I have been employed by the Bristol County Sheriff's Office in Massachusetts as a Correction Officer. I am also a former Honor Guard member and the current Assistant Armorer.
Other Interests:
I love to read, scuba dive, target shoot and have probably seen every war movie made. Having had my grandfather and father serving in W.W.I and W.W.II respectively it was only natural that I signed up in the U.S. Army myself after graduating college. So I am interested in all things military.
I am married and have a young daughter which takes up a great deal of my time. In the summer I like to spend as much time as possible at the beach.
On the Beta team I am pretty much the wise ass of the group. I have a few other interests but my wife would kill me and I doubt Glenn would post it anyway ; )
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