Chris Sharp Email & Phone Number

Carpinteria, CA, US

Seattle, WA, US

Seattle, Washington, US

• 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.

Burbank, CA, US

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

• 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.

Redmond, Washington, US

• 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.

Redmond, Washington, US

• 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.