• Technology role with the Nordstrom Innovation Team• Investigation of applying Computer Vision and Machine Learning to the Nordstrom retail shopping experience. • Research of the use of Convolutional Neural Networks for object and garment detection.

• Involved in the architecture and engineering of all releases of the Club Penguin Online World for iOS and Android, from proof-of-concept to the 1.6.10 release, 11 million downloads. Club Penguin is a cross-platform app written in C++.• Led and participated in the design and development of Club Penguin's Puffle Wild, a popular match-3 game written in C++/Obj-C and openGL. Puffle Wild introduced new characters to Club Penguin, drove subscriptions, and improved retention. Released to the iOS App Store in 2014.• Hired and directed a team of 6 engineers to implement Club Penguin's mini games for mobile devices.• Facilitated communication between our engineering team and outsourced development teams. Oversaw integration of outsourced code into our source tree. • Integration and implementaion of Gaming systems and App services including In App Purchasing, Leaderboards, Game Center, Advertising, Analytics, Crash Reporting, GooglePlay, and Apple services.• Developed low level openGL and C++ game code for sprite animations, an internal custom APNG format for layered and tinted 2D full-screen animations, and custom game UI transitions, gestures and effects.• Programming of Marvel 3D Games using C# and Unity.

• Built Playdom's first iOS game, City of Wonder, an addicting city builder game released February 2011. City of Wonder became a top 10 app on the iOS App Store. • Hired to aid in the growth of Playdom's Seattle studio. Influential in the shift of the studio to mobile development.• Launch and on-going development of Social City, 2010's "Best Social Network Game" by Game Developers Choice. Social City was a key factor in Disney's acquisition of Playdom.• Implementation of scalable backend systems using Java, mySQL, and memcached for Playdom's Facebook games.

• Developed 1vs100, a Multiplayer Online 3-D trivia game show for the Xbox 360 console written in C++ and Lua, launched June 1st 2009 on Xbox Live.• Increased game interactivity through creation of game-play systems in conjunction with art and design teams using agile development practices.• Implementation of a server-driven state machine and server messaging keeping 200,000 clients synchronized to ½ second tolerance.• Wrote an in-game studio tool allowing a live host to add commentary and updates during the show.

• Designed and Constructed Victrola's two Capitol Hill coffeehouses and world-class coffee roastery.• Grew Victrola from start-up to a two cafe operation and wholesale roasting business producing over 70,000 pounds of roasted coffee per year.• Responsible for brand and product development. Developed Victrola's popular coffee blends.• Designed Victrola's online store for retail coffee sales and merchandise.• Responsible for all aspects of business including hiring, management, cafe and equipment maintenance, accounting, quality control and green been purchasing.

• Development and maintenance of code and tools for the 4.5 and 5.0 releases of BackOffice and Small Business Server using perl and C/C++.• Worked with numerous developers spanning four Microsoft groups to get code changes into a nightly build of their respective projects.• Developed tools for localization of BackOffice code to Japanese, German, Korean, and Chinese languages

• Program maintenance and support of a client-server inventory and manufacturing program written with PowerBuilder and Microsoft Visual C++ in a paper production plant.• Implementation/maintenance of programs using Microsoft Visual C++.• Database administration of Sybase SQL Server System XI.• Setup and administration of a 100 user LAN.