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Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

Unannounced Projects- Responsible for coordinating all aspects of engineering on two new cross-platform IPs: - Identified technical risks & mitigations - Developed project technical vision - Managed & supported 5-6 direct reports - Led and mentored technical team of 10+ developers - Implemented novel locomotion and movement systems along the way- Interim delivery lead - Responsible for defining & leading team rituals - Responsible for developing pre-production plans - Provided overall team support, management, & hiring Dauntless- Coordinated technical aspects of certification and approval of Dauntless across three platforms- Responsible for game client and server engineering- Led team of 10+ engineers- Gameplay & animation programming for behemoths, player character, & cinematics.

Dead Rising 4 - Gameplay & Animation Programmer- Designed & implemented new animation scripting system for use across gameplay team.- Implemented core locomotion system used by both NPCs and the player character.- Implemented navmesh-based climbing & traversal system used by both NPCs and the player character.- Assisted in design & implementation of various AI systems, including pathfinding.- Assisted in planning, scheduling & scoping the gameplay team.Dead Rising 3 - Gameplay & Animation Programmer- Designed and implemented multiple animation engine features and improvements including hand & foot IK, procedural & additive blending systems, head tracking and cinematics.- Responsible for animation system optimization plan & implementation. Improved core job manager technology and multi-threaded animation decompression and blending.- Created low-level cross-platform VPU (SIMD/SSE) library, used to optimize animation decompression and other systems.- Inherited lead responsibilities for latter part of project.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

FIFA Vita - Gameplay Programmer- Ported PS3 / Xbox version of FIFA to Sony PS VITA.- Developed optimization plan for gameplay and animation systems.- Executed plan and successfully hit our framerate target on hardware roughly 1/5 as powerful as a PS3 / Xbox.EA Sports Active 2 - Kinect / PS3 - Controls Lead Programmer- Led team of 6 engineers in development of Kinect systems and gameplay features- Designed and implemented animation retargeting system for 1:1 control of in game character using the Kinect skeleton- Designed and implemented input system to support Kinect, custom heart rate monitoring hardware and traditional gamepadsGrand Slam Tennis – Gameplay Programmer- Implemented MotionPlus control mechanic for Tennis: “Once mastered you’ll be able to put the ball wherever you want on the court, and doing that with real motion control is very, very rewarding.” - IGN review- Mentored SEs, shared knowledge studio-wide via presentations at special interest groups, and contributed improvements to company-wide tools.Madden 09 Wii, FIFA 08 Wii - Generalist Programmer

Developed a successful, large-scale work-flow tracking system for three major home building companies in Edmonton, AB.

B.Sc., Computer Science

B.Sc., Electrical Engineering