Dan Duncalf Email & Phone Number

Southern California Office (La)

Redwood City, Ca

Making back end services for game app developers. Low barrier social network signon's and authorization. Private social network. Voice chat. User data and account management both structured, and unstructured. Push notifications, etc... if you want a mobile service, and we don't offer it... let me know.

Palo Alto

I was hired into the Playdom group central services, overseeing mobile social central tools development, on both Android and iOS. Tools included social channel integration, animation systems, and other client side implementations communicating to custom back end services. Hosting biweekly Unity dev leads, in a technology/knowledge sharing get together. Drove a client side quality initiative.

This isn't any wimpy 2D social networking game you have seen before, this is full physics real time 3D RACING. Free to play, virtual goods. Our back end is ruby on rails, with MySQL, AngularJS, JQuery on Ngnix. The client side is C++, DirectX, and WebKit. Mastermind behind internal tools for server, customer, and channel management. Managed development on three continents, as well as QA.

Director of Technology for hire. Clients have included OnLive, World Famous, Microsoft, and others. Video streaming UI/UX. Game Development. Web Development. GPU development. Advertising and marketing channel management. Special emphasis on high performance graphics, multi-threading, and media streaming.

Kirkland, Wa

Ensure consistent and high quality execution, of video games across all platforms, and studios. Oversaw technical due diligence on all potential acquisition targets. Integrated technology teams, into the "Corporate" way. Soup to nuts creation of Corporate WAN across 10 different locations. Unified source, and asset control corporate wide. Facilitated and encouraged cross studio collaboration, and resource management. Company size peaked a little over 900 employees (around 1/3 were Engineers), shipping 50 Sku's per year.

Co-Founder, and Co-Owner of a bootstrapped professional games as a service company, that still exists to this day. I was the strategic, cultural, and functional leader. Developed strategy of going after 3D animation technology, while the rest of the world focused on the creation of 3D worlds, and portal systems. Helped Microsoft launch the XBox, doing 80% of the demo's for it's unveiling. Negotiated all contracts, leases, and royalty agreements. Launched the Godzilla Franchise for Atari.On the business side of things, worked through a couple different exit strategy scenarios, and was one of the founding companies of Foundation 9 Entertainment. At which point, I hired and trained my replacement.

Led R&D, Producer and Lead Programmer on Front Page Sports line, Lead on Outpost II, worked on 3D libraries for flight sims, Wrote all the graphics and rendering code for Outpost II, did software texture mapping of numbers on players in Front Page Sports football pro. Wrote a glide rendering engine (no hardware acceleration). Most importantly convinced Dan White and several other employees to leave and form Pipeworks Software.

San Francisco Bay Area

Owner, and founder. Biz-Dev and Lead-Dev. Developed the Game Gear development system, Disney's Coaster, Berkley System's After Dark for Dos, Sega's PC version of Turbo Outrun, plus many more game titles. Also worked on the 3D0 Multiplayer's 3D API's, and libraries.

Worked on California Games, The Games Summer Edition, and the graphics libraries for the IBM PC, which included a 3D lit 256 color planar mode.