Brendan Jackson Email & Phone Number

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Rendering engineer on Open 3D Engine.• Contributions visible in GitHub as rgba16f• Part of the team that wrote a new rendering engine (Atom).• Responsible for reducing Atom’s CPU usage by 30%• Worked on RHI Layer, and integrating Atom into Lumberyard

Cupertino, California

• Rewrote iOS Metal Parallel Encoder implementation.• Analyzed iOS graphics workloads for 3rdParty developers.

Cupertino, California, United States

• Analyzed the code & performance of multiple 3rd party benchmarks.• Competitive analysis of 3rd party devices.

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Star Citizen• Proposed & prototyped a new ultra high draw call rendering approach that required no art process changes.• Educated the art team on the benefits of physically based rendering & required content changes.• Enabled art team education and experimentation by fixing an early public revision of Crytek’s PBR technology.• Collaborated with the art team to evaluate desired new features that DX11 enabled.• Sole graphics subject matter expert for all of C.I.G. and partner developers during 2013.• Mentored junior engineers.• Directed and evaluated work of external graphics contractors.

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Unannounced Title (PC Prototype).• Created a hot-swappable DX11 material (shader) runtime system and art pipeline.• Ported the particle system to new engine, including:--- Updated the rendering to DX11.--- Made the runtime content hot-swappable.--- Created a new content pipeline.• Prototyped a Qt based level editor.Starhawk (PS3).• Created a system to manage lightweight decorative objects. --- 350,000 objects used 3MB of memory, less than 1 ms each of SPU and CPU time.--- Collaborated with the Lead Terrain Artist to determine needed improvements to the art pipeline and implemented them.• Took sole ownership of the particle system and art pipeline.--- Worked with the Lead SFX Artist to determine needed features and implemented them.--- E.g. Added the ability to use an arbitrary fixed mesh to control an emitters shape.• Solely responsible for integrating Sony’s Edge geometry optimization technology into the engine and tools.• Implemented solutions for parallelization of bottlenecks through distributed job creation, hand scheduling, and more.• Implemented asynchronous file loading using Sony’s Fios Library.

iSkyDive (iPhone).•Solely responsible for converting internal game engine to run on iPhone.--- Updated the art pipeline to work with the iPhone engine.Pirates versus Ninjas: Dodgeball (Wii).• Completed the conversion from XBox360 to Wii• Updated and recreated the UI.• Supported the game through submission to Nintendo.

Unreleased Title (Xbox360 & PS3)•Updated the engine to use Midway’s implementation of Sony’s Edge technology and adapted the Edge implementation to work with the palletized ambient character mesh technology.•Enhanced character and vehicle rendering systems with Epic's composite dynamic lighting technology.Core Technology Group (Xbox360 & PS3)•Mentored junior engineers in Unreal Engine, debugging, architecture and optimization.•Collaborated with the Senior Engine Architect to determine the future direction of the core engine architecture.•Prototyped a library to allow sharing of art assets between teams with incompatible binary data formats.•Upgraded a foreign satellite studio's game engine to match latest Epic technology, including separating rendering onto its own thread.•Implemented shared core technology systems based on game team prototypes.•Validated and approved systems requested for implementation in the core engine.

Men of Valor (PC & XBox). •Solely responsible for completion of XACT based audio subsystem on Xbox.•Responsible for creation of player save system and DVD file error handling system.•Implemented split screen subsystem based on example code from Unreal Championship.•Solved TCR issues related to saved games, file errors, load times and Xbox Live.