Music Mouse Studios

Andrea founded Music Mouse Studios to provide educational and music resources for both kids and adults to help them achieve their dreams. She is a veteran in both the audio and video games/tech industry, where she has worked for over a decade. Her experience at Hi-Rez Studios, a video game company, where she has served both as an Audio Director and an Executive Producer. Andrea built the audio team there from the ground up and has also supervised the centralized audio, art, production and outsourcing teams. Andrea has also provided high-level audio direction as well as hands-on audio support, for all things related to music, sound design, and VO, for all the games and cinematics at Hi-Rez, such as Rogue Company, Smite, Paladins, Realm Royale, Divine Knockout, and other unannounced games. Andrea has also worked at Microsoft as an Audio Lead on the HoloLens App, "Actiongram," featuring collaborations with George Takei, Warcraft, Hello Kitty, etc., as well as working as a Senior Sound Designer on the Central Audio Team, supporting audio for company-wide HoloLens and Windows experiences. She sound designed, composed music, implemented audio for augmented and virtual reality across various platforms and devices such as the HoloLens, and VR headsets, among others, and designed audio prototypes to drive innovation across the organization. In addition, Andrea has also worked at Electronic Arts (EA) as an in-house sound designer on their eSports Multiplayer Online Battle Arena game, “Dawngate,” as well as having freelanced in the video game and film industry. ​ Since covid-19 started, Andrea has homeschooled her daughter. She has detailed her learnings, tips, and tricks on successfully juggling working and homeschooling in her book, A Working Mom's Guide: How to Homeschool Without Losing Your Mind. She has also written several piano books for adult beginners in her book series - Your Golden Ears: First Piano Lessons for Adult Beginners. As a content creator, she also enjoys regularly uploading free piano and education resources on her YouTube Channel @homeschoolingwithandrea as well as creating music covers with her daughter.