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Mountain View, Ca, Us

Leading a team bringing Google Research discoveries to Pixel phones, consumer products, and high-flying prototypes. Reading QR codes in the camera, picking the best photos out of your videos, unlocking phones with your face, and making a better personal assistant.Continuing ongoing research into consuming all of Alphabet's turkey bacon.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

* Mobile development on future technologies in the Computer Vision space.* Research into whether a man can survive entirely on free turkey bacon.

Design, develop, deliver, denude, destroy, and devour games and game-like things for people and people-like things.• Along with Sean Gubelman of Drizzly Bear Games, designed, developed, launched and supported the web game Every Book Ever (http://www.everybookever.com), using several Amazon product APIs, Mandrill, Ruby on Rails with MongoID, and a freshly baked HTML5/JS frontend, designed to run on a highly scalable set of DigitalOcean droplets.• Fondly spoken of by Polygon: http://www.polygon.com/2014/9/30/6862769/paperback-book-game-every-book-ever• Created Tiny Life and Tiny Reversi, two of the top 100 games for the Pebble Smartwatch.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Back-end programming, API design and mobile development (Android) for the world's best photography tools and online platforms.• Designed, built, and maintained backend architecture using PHP, MySQL, Mongo, Gearman, and other technologies necessary to deliver fast, scalable applications, such as the first incarnation of VSCO Grid.• Along with two other mobile engineers, developed and launched the first release of VSCO Cam for Android, a multi-million user app and TechCrunch Runner-Up for 2014 Best Mobile Application.

Developer of rich, short-cycle games built with HTML5 for the web.• Built core platform features, such as chat and marketplace, for a web games portal.• Architected and implemented a Hidden Object game and reusable game engine using HTML5 and the CreateJS framework.• Used Amazon's Dynamo NoSQL store, along with other AWS technologies, to build a highly scalable backend appropriate to the large user base of a popular social game.

After five satisfying years at Microsoft Game Studios, quit to circle the planet. Independently biked, hiked, climbed, motorcycled, and SCUBA dove through 22 countries and five continents over thirteen months.

• Designed, implement, and integrated a new online design application to allow Zaavy to move into a new custom sportswear market, using C#, ASP.Net, MSSQL, and Flash Builder 4.5 (Flex).o Created and scheduled a feature development plan for a three month project to fulfill Zaavy’s needs.o Used Zaavy’s existing resources and current infrastructure to create a Flash/.Net based solution that would require limited disruption of their existing businesses.o Executed on-schedule and delivered the project to spec while making longer-term improvements to Zaavy’s existing code base.

• Managed test teams of one to six full time engineers and upwards of sixty contract and temporary employees on a series of Microsoft Game Studios projects, including Project Gotham Racing 4, Fable 2 and its DLCs, and Kinectimals.• Worked with internal and external developers in the UK, Japan and US, and coordinated with their internal test, development, and production teams to increase the quality of our games, manage the certification process, and ship on time.• Worked closely with project producers and the Microsoft production team to track the project's health and progress, find ways to make content production and implementation more efficient, and minimize the risk when working with brand new platform technologies, including new XBLA interaction models in Fable 2 and the Kinect Launch.• Engaged heavily with Microsoft Recruiting and Microsoft Game Studio's special recruiting initiatives, doing over sixty college interviews and assisting with the teaching of a University course in Motion Game Design at the University of Southern California.

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Responsible for developing, implementing, managing, and owning the outcome of testing on multiple areas of Xbox 360 games, including Project Gotham Racing 3 and Crackdown.• Using C#, C++, Lua and the Xbox 360 SDK, developed automated testing systems to allow completely automated testing of large portions of the PGR 3 collision physics and route creation systems.• Developed a semiautomated tool (SWARM) to dramatically increase the efficiency and accuracy of environment bugs in Crackdown, reducing the environment testing time by two thirds and resulting in a dramatically cleaner game world.

New York, Us

• Responsible for milestone goal verification for Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone (PS2) and Dragonshard (PC).• Created still and video marketing materials for Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone using PS2 Development hardware and Avid video editing systems.• Compiled a database and frontend to allow searchable access of all items, spells, classes, species, and other listable components in the published content of Wizards of the Coast's 3rd Edition D&D system (VB and MS Access).

B.S., Computer Science, Computer Science With An Emphasis In Video Games

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