Jared Huckaby



Jared "Disco Lando" Huckaby is the Creative Content Lead at Cloud Imperium, Los Angeles. He was previously Associate Creative Producer, and Content Manager before that.

"“We serve at the pleasure of Chris Roberts""

- Jared Huckaby on Meet the Devs

Work at CIG
Jared was originally a backer who made fan videos and used to do fan questions, he wanted to help. He met some people from CIG, came by a few times to visit, and got contracted to do a couple of animations and intros as well as the intro for Around the Verse during a contest. When the time came to expand the team he joined it.

When he came on he was helping out with some of the video production and was to take on some of the forum work. He started taking more and more responsabilities in different areas, getting heavily involved in event planning.

He became as Community Manager, managing the content that goes out to the community, such as interviews, helping with comm links, forum posts, various events, editing and producing the shows and generally speaking involvement in anything that goes from Cloud Imperium to the community.

Every week he would produde Ten for the Chairman, Around the Verse, Reverse the Verse, and every other week he would work on Bugsmashers and once a month a special edition of Reverse the Verse for subscribers. Meet the Devs and streams such as the one for Wing Commander.

In addition he works with data management, collecting the sentiment of the community, taking questions, concerns, comments from the community and directing them to the appropriate people where that information will inform decision making.

Other Works
Jared Huckaby worked as a Construction Contractor, a Barista, an IT Professional, an actual High School Drama Teacher, an Audio Engineer for both Television and Radio, a Retail Supervisor or Manager several times over, a Professional Baseball Mascot, a Telemarketer, a Stage and Film Actor, a WoW Game Master, a Prosthetics Support Specialist, a Home Improvement Professional, a Director of Operations for a Professional Baseball Team, a Cashier, a Mr. Trash, a Theme Park Performer, a Truck Loader, a Published Author of textbooks and magazine articles, a Hospitality Worker and more. He had 34 jobs before joining CIG, starting at 16 and following in the footsteps of Jack London, learning what he could from a job before moving on and sometimes working 2 or 3 jobs at the same time.

Trivia

 * He does a couple hundred different things, and only three of them well. Which three? They're not work related, unfortunately.
 * Jared is also known as Red 1.
 * He was a Game Master in during its launch.
 * On December 23, 2017, he shaved his iconic beard. As of 2021, his beard has returned.
 * His favorite ship is the Anvil Carrack. He is forced to like the ship as he is "legally bounded by his obligation to the community to like the ship". It is originated from the shipshape segment on 2018-04-12, he asked the community to vote his favorite ship in the comments, his favorite ship officially became the Carrack on 2018-05-03.
 * His actual favorite ship is the Crusader Genesis Starliner.
 * He requested this page be updated after his mother found it and said "I thought you did more than this in seven years." The community has a deep respect for Jared's work and contribution to the Star Citizen universe, and trusts that this page now meets his mother's satisfaction.
 * Jared runs a Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition campaign on his Twitch channel called A Fistful Of Twenties: The Dungeons and Disco Show with a cast of several Star Citizen community members. Toast, one of his coworkers, is the Beast Master of the campaign
 * Mr. Huckaby opened an episode of Star Citizen Live in October 2021 as Italian Spiderman.
 * Mr. Huckaby has one rule dictated by CIG, forbidding discharge of the "not a flamethrower" displayed behind him.
 * Jared is a member of the Fresh Outta Verse cover band, alongside Jeremiah Lee.
 * Jared is the singer of the OST for Raftron.
 * He taught 12–13 years old in high school which helps him deal with Twitch chat
 * NASA Astronaut Victor J. Glover was an upperclassman in Jared's high school

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