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San Rafael, CA, US

Palo Alto, California, US

Wearing the hats and doing the things.

Oakland, California, US

Cross platform C++ development - Windows, Android nativeCross platform C# development, Unity and stand-alone toolingExtensive work on XR application for architecture review and real estate sales.Designed and built an automated system that ingests a Revit architecture model and produces a ready to run multi-user VR experience featuring the converted.

San Francisco, CA, US

Worked on Sansar, a product for creating and visiting social VR experiences. Implemented internals and user-facing features on VR editor engine, run time engine, and server.Started as senior engineer, promoted to lead of the editor team and then group lead handling multiple teams. Coordinated teams with QA, UX, product, and project management while.

Malibu & Corte Madera, CA, US

Lead Core Engineer on Minecraft: Story Mode projectBootstrapped production, improved engineering and reliability practices: in-game version info, budget tests, fidelity testing, ubiquitous access to in-game debugging featuresLead Engineer on game engine ports for PS4 and Windows 10 UniversalKey engine feature and porting work on multiple consolesResearched.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Set up and maintained first automated build system
• Helped transition from startup coding frenzy to standard practices. Changes led to more reliable release cycles with much less time in destructive crunch modes
• Managed 5 releases of Leap commercial software and developer kit
• Planned and executed delivery of an additional 3 targeted incremental updates in 3 successive weeks backed up against holiday season

San Francisco, CA, US

• Contributed to major refactor, splitting single user­mode process into separate system service and user­mode client
• Set up initial examples repo, selected cross­platform application tech, wrote examples, incorporated into automated build
• Work spanned API and system implementation as well as internal utilities
• Architected & implemented redesign of Touchless technology foundation - hierarchical state machine system in Lua with pure C wrapper for Leap API integrated with LuaJIT.

Novato, CA, US

Shipped Resistance: Burning Skies for Sony PS VitaShipped Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified for Sony PS Vita

Irvine, CA, US

Sr. Engineer (Game Play) for Rock Band 3 on Wii (shipped, 92 MetaCritic).Sr. Engineer (Tools & Tech Lead) for XBLA/PSN titles Zombie Apocalypse 2 and Ugly AmericansCame into RB3/Wii project late in its cycle and quickly ramped up on Harmonix tech becoming productive in short order. Worked on memory saving, speed optimization, controller systems, graphics.

US

Game programming generalist.Late addition to Iron Man 2 Xbox 360/PS3 TeamHelped take project from far behind schedule to shipped on time, passing all first party QA on first submission.Worked in C++ and Lua on various aspects of game play, physics usage, character AI, performance tuning and bug fixing in both game and engine code.

Redwood City, CA, US

Generalist game engineer for Maxis/EAQuickly assimilated large body of proprietary systems for general game infrastructure, UI and project-specific subsystems.Worked on Spore Creature Keeper (GM reached, ship date pending) general systems, game flow, UI, client/server communications, asset hookup. Saved production team many hours of manual work with.

US

Senior PC and Console Game ProgrammerWorked on custom Vicious Engine modifications and game levels on Alien Syndrome for PSP and Wii. Vicious Engine modifications included Wii-specific VRAM management modifications.Wrote a custom 2D engine with Lua script hooks and shipped Cisco Mind Share (PC) on it.

Emeryville, CA, US

Shipped PSP title Death Jr. 2, Worked on internal engine technologies such as proprietary scripting language and FSM engine. Did coding required to implement specific game weapons and objects from behaviors to graphics. Did boss-level special coding, graphics features such as a ground-hugging animated reticle as well as custom art & designer tools. Did.

Worked on 2D casual games for PC using proprietary Orbital Engine and 3rd party technologies. Worked on technology internals of Orbital Engine - data formats, particle system, rendering.Worked with Sony Computer Entertainment on Field Commander/PSP game internals + tools optimizations.

Business software architecture and implementation. Most work was in Java. Extensive work with XML and DOM as well as SOAP and DHTML.

Extensive work on 3D volumetric rendering, 2D image manipulation and enhancement, 3D volumetric statistics algorithms. Custom Win32 interface widgets, controls and design. Massive volumetric dataset manipulation tools. Designed and evolved volumetric and time-varying volumetric dataset format.Co-inventor on U.S. Patent 6,295,451 covering the simulated.

US

Developed and modified portions of Light Source's Colorshop 2.5 (Win32) product. This work was especially challenging due to the size (>250,000 lines) and legacy nature of the body of code. Gained valuable exposure to color science theory.

Developed and modified software subsystems for the Texus live broadcast digital character generator. Designed and implemented a macro scripting language for the Texus. Implemented and managed a nightly build system for the team. Developed a Texus emulator (starting from SunOS emulation code) with Visual C++ for the PC using MFC and GDI.

US

Authored utility software and example code for developers on the 3DO platform. Answered involved and sometimes bizarre technical questions for developers in addition to providing creative solutions for the unique needs of their real-time titles. Helped form and manage a multi-department group for the revision, quality control, and management of a large.

Developed device drivers for several types of video hardware and file filters for a variety of image formats. Wrote a high-quality, high-performance resampling library. Developed a licensing encryption library. Designed and implemented a license-permitted add-on package installation tool in Motif. Debugged and modified a large variety of modules in a.

Wrote a custom LISP interpreter that was used for image processing and application prototyping. Designed and implemented a low level image processing scripting language that executed single frame output image effects. Designed and implemented a high level video segment processing language that compiled to the low-level frame language. Did the majority of.

Milpitas, CA, US

Designed and implemented GUI-based productivity tools for managing a developer support porting lab. Wrote a color date book for the then-new Iris Indigo. Worked extensively on a prototype of Irix Voicemail. Administered a lab of machines ranging from entry level systems to project supercomputers.

Lafayette, California, US

Wrote data access & processing utilities in C and Bourne Shell. Wrote productivity tools for salespeople in C, Bourne Shell, AWK, and EMACS Lisp. Administered a heterogeneous network of Unix machines. Wrote a custom Lisp interpreter as a tool for writing powerful database scripts.