Career
He is a Presidential Scholar at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, majoring in film and minoring in Classics. In late 2004, Winn, along with Ryan Luther, co-founded Edgeworks Entertainment to produce a new Halo 2 machinima series called The Codex. Episode 1 of this series was released on February 9, 2005, a date previously rumored to be the release date of an unknown Bungie project
Winn acted as writer, director, editor and composer, and reprised these roles during production of the prequel series, The Heretic.
Winn and his machinima series have been featured in national and international media including the biography segment "Master" on mtvU, the front covers of the Dallas Observer and Houston Press, and a full chapter in Halo Effect, a published collection of essays and articles about the impact of the Halo video game series on popular culture. Most recently, he was interviewed as an expert on machinima in a piece for Marketplace on National Public Radio in April 2008.