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A Companion App for Learning and Playing Irish Traditional MusicAims to make learning an instrument even more fun:- Live Tune Recognizer- Tune Library- Lessons

Unity Engineering, Java Spring Boot, Real Time Multiplayer (Unity Netcode).

Led the engineering team at the Gluplay studio in EA, running live operations for Diner Dash Adventures: http://www.dinerdashadventures.com/This focus of this phase of the game was: - Streamline the delivery of content.- Finding ways to reuse a deep bench of content in smart ways which provide a positive and enagaging player experience.- Improving server stability, reliability and cost.- Adding best-in-practice monetization features.Our team also maintained two legacy games:Cooking Dash https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cooking-dash/id978866413Restaurant Dash with Gordon Ramsay https://www.gordonramsay.com/gr/gordon-ramsay-dash/I recently pitched and got approval for a small core tech team to package and share tech across our mobile organization. The goal was to deliver cost savings to the studio teams and accelerate early stage incubation projects:- Harvested tech built in our studio and repackaged it for general purpose use.- Collaborated with a studio in Europe who are building a config and segmentation admin console. Planned improvements, advocated for the tech and drove adoption with our developers in North America.- Worked with various technical leaders to distill requirements and align with their roadmaps.- Drove visibility and adoption for these sharing initiatives.

Led the pivot to a Unity based mobile game from the client development side, and a launched our first fully server authoritative game (Diner Dash Adventures) with complex live ops needs.Led the engineering effort to prototype a location based game concept.Led the game client development team for a number of cocos2dx/c++ mobile titles.Drove technical and product and studio direction:- Building a strong studio leadership team to drive our team and product forward. Collaborating with some great leaders in the art, design, PM and production departments to achieve this.- Spec review, technical planning and breakdown to move new features through the product pipeline.- On-site technical reviews in collaboration with the Unity enterprise support team.- Keeping good lines of communication open across other internal teams (central tech, ad tech, other studios).- Maintaining relationships with external vendors.

Delivered multiple mobile games, including 2 movie tie-ins in collaboration with Sony:- Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs: Matching puzzle game.- Mortal Instruments: Action RPG.- Deep Sea Deli: Matching puzzle game.- Diner Dash Rush: Time management game.Delivered cross-platform server connected infrastructure.- Cloud saves- Leaderboards- Gifting and Messaging Service

- Led the technical development and iteration on the Dash brand of iOS titles. - Worked on the implementation of DLC and remote game configuration systems. - Led the effort to make all our apps universal across iPad, iPhone retina and non-retina devices.- Implemented a skeletal based 2d animation system, with direct export pipeline from Flash, in our internal game SDK.- Led the technical development of a new iOS freemium title and delivered to a tight deadline.- Guiding and mentoring an number of junior programmers and interns.

Working on the to following Playfirst brand iOS titles, from initial release through numerous updates containing additional content / features.Diner Dash: Desktop game tailored for iPhone.Cooking Dash: Desktop game tailored for iPhone.Diner Dash Grilling Green: Built from the ground up for the iPad.Diner Town Zoo: New IP freemium game.Hotel Dash iPhone and iPad (Engineering Lead): Desktop game tailored for iOS.Egg Vs Chicken (Engineering Lead): New iphone game based on an old Playfirst IP.

Conferencing Server Development. Java/J2EE.Developed an Outlook plugin for booking conferences.Linux Administration. Load testing.

Personal Game Jams:https://damienmurtagh.itch.io/rocketdude: https://github.com/dmurtagh/pico-8, https://damienmurtagh.itch.io/tetrish: https://github.com/dmurtagh/tetrish, https://damienmurtagh.itch.io/the-way-homeYe Olde College Showreel (XBox 360/XNA/HLSL Shaders): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_RlM5Id2pQHobbies and Interests:Playing Irish traditional music on the button accordion. Snowboarding when I get a chance. I also love to travel and experience other cultures first hand.