Brian Hudson Email & Phone Number

Redmond, Wa, Us

TPM for Meta Quest - Virtual Reality OS (VROS)- Front end moderator and approver for performance analysis of all new features on Quest headsets, including CPU, GPU, DSP and memory consumption to ensure high performance and reliability while shipping features on a fast cadence.- API Review coordinator for new multi-customer SDK including AOSP Java and native APIs.- Led effort to ship OS Update functionality on the upcoming Quest 3 headset, with an emphasis on effective automation that led to 99.99% success rates across thousands of daily test runs.- Delivered end to end encryption of user data by leading a vTeam across engineering groups. Responsibilities included competitive product analysis, defining product scope including executive briefing, executing user experience workstream, and documenting the use of industry leading modern cryptography and data protection technologies. TPM for Meta’s exabyte-scale block level Warm Storage service (Tectonic)- Managed partnership with Meta’s Data Warehouse organization including capacity planning, performance optimization projects, workload identification for better incident recovery, and major security initiatives.

Technical PM for the Xbox Client Storage Platform team:- Defining the multi-year gaming storage technology roadmap across Xbox and PC - negotiating partnerdependencies and deliverables across the company, including developer relations, Azure and XboxLive services, and content publishing teams- Gathering customer functional and technical requirements, defining programs, authoring specs, anddelivering features within and across teams- Communicating progress, risks, and mitigations to Microsoft Gaming management- Directly support and coordinate support for internal and external game developers- Run multiple virtual teams across business groups to improve game developer publishing experiencesand cloud infrastructure to optimize game download and update experiencesPM / Architect for numerous platform features:- Smart Delivery - Enabling seamless game update to Xbox Series X from Xbox One.- Intelligent Delivery for Xbox One X - Regularly reducing game install sizes by 15-30%.- Xbox One Cloud Saves - An automatic and seamless game save platform storing 100s of millionsof save files since Xbox One launch, including automatic backup / restore to new devices and crossplatform saves with PC.- "Ready to Start" Streaming Install feature - letting users play games as they download.- "Fast Start" - automatic Streaming Install without game developers doing any work. Uses statisticaldata modeling and machine learning along with smart cloud infrastructure to manage deployment andmonitoring to ensure quality play.- Smaller game updates / patching system. I led two programs to reduce the size of patches by orders of magnitude from where they were when Xbox One launched.

Core App Model PM for Xbox One:- Delivered the core activation and process lifecycle management platform for Xbox One games.- Spec'ed, patented, and led the engineering team to implement Constrained Mode, which allowsgames to run with lower CPU and GPU resources while off-screen.XNA Game Studio 4.0 PM- PM for the Graphics stack, and later, the entire XNA 4.1 Platform on Mobile, including Silverlightintegration and backcompat support on Windows Phone.- Worked with industry experts to define and deliver the managed gaming platform for Windows Phone7, Xbox 360, and Windows PCs, including API design, sample writing, and dependency managementwith core Windows Phone graphics team.- Achieved a high profile plan of record change to enable 60fps graphics to enable platform parity withiPhone for important games like Fruit Ninja.- Managed a vendor to source Windows Phone 7 development hardware to dozens of internationalgame development houses.- Gave executive and shiproom demos of the gaming platform at major project milestones.- Provided direct developer technical support for cutting edge games to showcase the new platform,including "The Harvest", "De Blob Revolution", and "Max and the Magic Marker."

Multimedia and Graphics PM- Liaison between Microsoft and The Khronos Group to evaluate OpenGL ES standards for use onhardware accelerated mobile platforms within Microsoft.- Delivered the platform on which Windows Phone 7 hardware accelerated graphics was built withinternal engineers and external silicon venders.- Presented at industry conferences Windows CE graphics model.- Lead effort to port the Graphics Windowing and Event Subsystem to the new 32-bit memory model ofWindows CE 6.0