Christopher Bireley Email & Phone Number

Irvine, Ca, Us

Features development and UI / UX engineering for Overwatch 2

Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Us

(Unreal 4) Responsible for bringing the UI infrastructure up to date with modern Unreal Slate and UMG paradigms. Developed the Engineering Coding Standards and Style Guide to be used at the studio. Worked on developing new gameplay features to be released as live content to users. Collaborated with artists and animators in bringing FX and user delight to the UI of the product. Shipped an Apple Arcade title to be played on iOS, Apple TV, and Mac.

Dallas, Tx, Us

(Unity) Lead Engineer, Architect, and Programmer on five titles within Unity which were released world-wide on Android and iOS mobile devices. Two of the titles reached Top 10 charts on iOS and Android. As Architect, I would develop the core game engine/framework for most of the new IP developed at the studio. Taught and trained new junior developers. Developed in-house tools and resources to be used cross department between Art, Design, and Programming.

(Unreal 4) Directed the overall creative direction of the company. Designed three alphaprojects, including a 3D side-scrolling Metroidvania game built using Unreal 4. Created gamedesign/mechanic documents, world & creature lore, level design, and art direction for outsourced art.

San Francisco, California, Us

UI and UX design, architecture, and implementationWhen Bonfire was acquired by Zynga I took the primary position of architecting, designing, and implementing the UI and UX used in CastleVille (one of the largest social games to date). Last project was working in Unity for upcoming mobile title doing UI / UX and gameplay animation.I working cross-department and cross-project. I jumped in to get a solid base of Unity and the UI toolset NGUI as fast as possible to give feedback to the rest of the team regarding its viability. In addition to UI work, I worked closely with the animators department to polish the look and user interaction of the game. I also branched out of UI to do gameplay work, too, thereby diversifying my expertise on the game.

Worked on gameplay logic and UI using XNA and .NET for a Windows Mobile project named Game Chest. Created achievement systems to track and reward the player. Dealt with the intricacies of saving, loading, and tombstoning a mobile device.Created and polished a lot of the game user experience, flow, touch input, and interface. Worked closely with the art team to integrate animations and polish them until release.

Burbank, Ca, Us

Tools Engineer. Development of internal tools used by the engine team, the game programming team, the animation team, and the artists. These tools include: automatic tracker of errors in daily builds; automatic error reporting from other internal tools; game play data visualizer for play test results; animation node dependency graph visualizer.

Plug-in development for DAZ Studio software. General software development and maintenance for DAZ Studio. Daily builds and installer specialist for all four product lines and their respective plug-ins. Worked with 3D content artist for proper integration of assets into the software.

Production Flashing, building, testing, and configuring wireless radio products for the use of distributing next generation, converged digital solutions: High speed / long range internet and LAN connections; VoIP; video surveillance; video kiosking; media servers.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Computer Science

Associate'S Degree, Culinary Arts And Related Services