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Strategy, Operations and Technical Leader

Responsible for day to day operations of the 115 person and growing Industrial Toys studio, developers of Battlefield Mobile. This includes hiring for our expanding team, establishing production processes, executive communication, planning release schedules, managing finance plans, overseeing facilities including the build out of a new 19,000 sqft office space, and managing overall team health. I drove our low cost center strategy, determining global partners and team communications plans. I setup teams in India, Shanghai, Columbia, and St. Petersburg by effectively working with internal EA groups and external global partners like TechRound and Globant as well as Studios such as Efecto Games and Farbridge Games. I worked to integrate these resources into our regular communication systems and production processes.I found time to make technical contributions as well. I developed an event driven economy simulator in C++. I also implemented the first audio nodes for our Battlefield Mobile UE4 prototype project.

Gunslinger Studios is making games that give players synchronous multiplayer in under 60 seconds, narratives determined by the player community, and fiercely one-handed controls that turn your phone into a weapon of (gaming) destruction for your friends. The first title, Exiles of Embermark, is a combat RPG that features all of those items plus an event system that keeps players on their toes every day.

I have contributed to the past several releases of the Nektarine plug-in including Juce based UI work, midi routing system, and control software for their drum controlled Aura.

Industrial Toys is a mobile game developer bringing high-quality games to core gamers. EA acquired Industrial Toys in July 2018.As CTO, I am responsible for engine selection, high-level technical policies, facilitating engineering communication and codesharing across teams, game services, and supporting the engineering leads on our projects. As executive producer, I establish project management systems then work with the team leads to ensure they are understood and executed successful. I also ensure milestones, tasks, and progress tracking are organized and communicated. As day-to-day business manager, I am responsible for handling financial, legal, tax, and infrastructure issues.I led engineering development of our first product, Midnight Star, a first-person shooter for iOS. This involved both client-side engineering work using the Unreal Engine and managing the backend systems based on Ruby, Node.js, Redis, MongoDB, and MySQL. I developed the data authoring system and modified the Unreal Engine core object system to directly use Excel files. I also developed the gesture recognition system, the in-game store and client-side purchasing system, the achievement and stat system, the live data updating system, the analytics system and the initial AI implementation.In order to better understand our monetization potential, I developed a Python-based detailed macroeconomic simulation of a freemium iOS app factoring in install rate, retention curve, paid user acquisition, projected ARPDAU, top chart value, and periodic update plan to produce a day by day projection of DAU, revenue, and lifetime value.As the company transitioned away from original IP development and into strategic partnerships I managed an engagement with Epic Games to improve the UE4 mobile experience. I have also been technically contributing to Avermetrics, an audio test equipment manufacturer. I wrote a Qt based app for users to author audio tests and execute them on Avermetrics products.

At Avermetrics I initially worked on fixing firmware bugs and making optimizations to their hardware product AverLAB. I then wrote a Qt application to control the AverLAB hardware. The application allowed the user to author tests, create sequences of tests to run automatically, and apply limits to test results to very correctness of the device under test. It could display results of sweeps and FFTs in an intuitive graph.

As Program Manager I was responsible for DreamWork's next-generation lighting system to improve artist efficiency and enable greater creative freedom. This cross-functional program involved six areas including application development, software as a service infrastructure, asset and data management, rendering, FX, and pipeline. The total team size was approximately 60 engineers.As Sr. R&D Manager, responsible for a team of 10 engineers developing asset and data management technology for a next-generation feature animation system.Joined as R&D Manager then promoted to overall Program Manager and Sr R&D Manager.

At Digidesign/Avid I was responsible for core audio engine technology including the disk engine, host system drivers, hardware/software interface, audio signal mixing, and embedded real-time OS for high-end audio products.I developed a RTOS from scratch for the x86 processor. This RTOS powered Digidesign's Ethernet-based PCI expansion chassis that allowed legacy PCI-based DSP accelerator cards to run in a dedicated x86 machine while connected to a modern PCIe based machine over a gigabit Ethernet connection. The RTOS was able to achieve context switches in just under half a microsecond.I proposed and lead the early development of two PCIe-based cards, one x86 based and one based on a TI DSP. Both of these cards were designed to handle complex audio algorithms at low latency.I joined as individual contributor and was promoted to Tech Lead, then Manager, then Director Of Engineering.I was also a member of Avid’s Global Engineering Team helping to establish global engineering teams in Eastern Europe and China.

Developed AppBeat, a real-time in-application performance and memory monitor that would report static performance analysis and memory analysis as an application is used.Developed web based online store for the sale of AppBeat.

For Apple: ported RAVE onto OpenGL for OSX compatibilityFor Metrowerks: Assisted in general development of compiler and linker products and assisted larger customers with problems. Wrote Mach-O linker from scratch.

Developed original game concept, Oni, based on fusing third-person fighter with shooting elements in a fully 3D environment. Oni won Best Action Game award at 1999 E3 conference. As engineering lead, developed core 3D engine, environment engine, data management and level loading mechanisms, and scripting engine.

Managed team of engineers responsible for interactive 3D rendering technologies. Participated in the development of QuickDraw 3D and RAVE. Wrote the QuickDraw 3D Interactive Renderer. Implemented multi-processor QuickDraw 3D Interactive Renderer. Started as individual contributor then promoted to Tech Lead and then to Engineering Manager.

Worked on 3D graphics hardware drivers. Ported GCC compiler to MPW development environment. Participated in the development of a custom GCC backend for a research project.