Amity Fox Email & Phone Number

Redmond, Wa, Us

Board Members, CEOs, and Executive Leadership need a strategic partner to help understand and integrate evolving AI-dominated technology into their business plans. I provide strategy services in mapping cutting-edge technology opportunities against your current and future business needs. Unique Offerings:- Executive Training: One-on-one tailored training sessions for C-suite executives, demystifying the complexities of today's tech landscape.- AI Transformation: Pinpoint and harness AI opportunities tailored to your organization's growth, paired with robust cybersecurity measures to guarantee the safe and strategic deployment of cutting-edge AI solutions.- Board-Level Tech Translation: Unravel complex emerging technologies for board members, delivering clear, actionable insights tailored to your organization's unique needs, ensuring informed decisions that drive innovation and growth.- Future-Ready Data Architecture: Conduct comprehensive data architecture reviews, ensuring your systems are primed for the next wave of technological advancements.- ROI-Centric Approach: Ensure that every tech investment aligns with your business goals, ensuring maximum returns.

After nearly 25 years at Microsoft, I was laid off from 343 Industries. I chose to take the severance package and experience a sabbatical. During this time I also brushed up on my Python, and explored Large Language Models (LLMs) and Prompt Engineering.As of September, I'm re-entering the job market, and excited to bring my decades of crafting data-driven solutions to bear on unique challenges!

Redmond, Wa, Us

As a Cybersecurity Engineer / Data & Applied Scientist, I specialized in identifying and mitigating cheat vectors in gaming environments. My expertise in data architecture and software development enabled me to drive the creation of advanced anti-cheat telemetry and detection algorithms, ensuring a fair and enjoyable gaming experience for all players.• Identified Solutions: Detected new cheat vectors by leveraging orthogonal telemetry, resulting in a more secure gaming environment.• Quantified Behaviors: Established behavioral heuristics to pinpoint likely cheaters, even in the absence of anti-cheat telemetry.• Drove Development: Spearheaded and supported the creation of innovative anti-cheat & anti-tamper telemetry, enhancing game security.• Analyzed Impact: Assessed the effect of various cheats on player retention, ensuring timely and prioritized responses.• Created Tools: Designed self-sustaining dashboards for continuous player enforcement actions, streamlining monitoring processes.• Pioneered Detection: Unearthed new metrics for proactive identification of known-cheat implementations, reducing cheat instances.• Educated Teams: Collaborated with game teams to impart knowledge on security and championed secure engine design, fortifying game infrastructure through cross-team collaboration.• Mitigated Cybersecurity Threats: Supported cross-functional strike teams in addressing cybersecurity threats, ensuring rapid response and minimizing potential risks to organizational assets.

Redmond, Wa, Us

As a Senior Data & Applied Scientist, I specialized in leveraging advanced data-exploration techniques to uncover insights in diverse areas such as user retention, in-game performance, and player behaviors. My expertise in data architecture and software development enabled me to define metrics, influence event schemas, and prototype new technologies, ensuring optimal data-driven decision-making across teams and products.• Promoted Discovery: Unearthed insights in areas like user retention and in-game performance by employing data-exploration techniques, leading to enhanced game experiences.• Ensured Understanding: Delved deep into telemetry producers and their event flow, pinpointing crucial events that addressed the majority of data inquiries.• Defined Metrics: Established methodologies to quantify feature performance, collaborating with teams to comprehend the core needs behind initial inquiries.• Influenced Integration: Shaped event schemas across various teams and products, ensuring telemetry's cross-group applicability.• Identified Gaps: Recognized future challenges and discrepancies in current algorithms, metrics, and models, setting the stage for proactive problem-solving.• Prototyped Solutions: Pioneered new technologies and data analysis techniques, integrating current literature methodologies into our workflow and mentoring the analytics group.• Utilized Technologies: Employed tools such as R, Tableau, C#, Hive, and Kusto for data analysis and visualization.

Redmond, Wa, Us

As a Senior Software Engineer, I created new telemetry and data mining solutions for the ground up for world-renowned titles like Halo 4, 5, Infinite and more. My expertise in data architecture, software development, and game engines enabled me to architect and implement advanced telemetry systems, optimize data queries, and present groundbreaking findings at industry conferences.• Optimized Performance: Reduced datamart population query times from 15 hours to 15 minutes, enhancing efficiency and data accessibility.• Architected Systems: Designed and executed a 200-node distributed data acquisition system in one month, powering email campaigns and pinpointing key marketing metrics.• Architected Telemetry Engine: Developed and implemented a C++ Xbox One telemetry gathering engine with minimal overhead (10-35μs/event), supporting thousands of events per second while maintaining game performance, leveraging BOND (Microsoft’s “Protocol Buffer”) serialization over AMQP on Websockets.• Pioneered Solutions: Conceived an innovative telemetry and BI system, collecting approximately 35 billion events daily, equivalent to about 4TB of data, leveraging C++, C#, ETW, Hadoop, Hive, SSAS, SSRS, Azure, SQL Server, and Kusto.• Provided Insights: Acted as a Data Scientist, generating ad-hoc reports to identify key player segments and uncover optimization opportunities within game titles.• Showcased Expertise: Presented the transformative approach at the GDC 2016 conference with “Bringing ‘Big Data’ to Halo: A Case Study.”• Enhanced Data Solutions: Maintained and upgraded existing telemetry and data mining tools using C++, C#, and SQL Server, ensuring optimal data-driven decision-making.

Redmond, Washington, Us

As a Senior Software Engineer with a specialization in audio and game development tools, I became the go-to expert for various Xbox and Windows features, providing invaluable support to over 200 unique game development studios. My leadership and expertise in software development, game engines, and audio codecs enabled me to architect tools, deliver impactful presentations at industry events, and guide teams in optimizing game performance and audio functionalities.• Provided Expertise: Became the feature area authority on XAudio/XAudio2, XHV/XHV2, and other Xbox and Windows tools, offering support and guidance to a vast number of game development studios on topics ranging covering root-cause analysis, workaround identification, best-practice advice, performance analysis, and more.• Developed Support Tools: Crafted a WP7 crashdump analysis tool, streamlining analysis and enhancing proactive communications. Designed tools for tracking forum- and email-generated support cases, improving response times and issue resolution, case categorization, trend analysis.• Led Teams: Managed a team of developers and contractors within the ATG group, fostering growth and ensuring project deliverables were met.• Cross-Organizational Collaboration: Partnered with diverse teams across multiple organizations at Xbox to streamline problem resolution, fostering enhanced communication and efficiency in addressing challenges.• Voice of the Customer: Engaged with international developers in the UK and France, offering on-site expertise and problem-solving for their game titles, bringing back concerns to developers.• Optimized Performance: Pinpointed and addressed key XAudio2 platform performance challenges, ensuring smoother audio experiences in games.• Delivered Presentations: Presented talks at industry events like Gamefest and GDC, sharing insights on XAudio2 and audio Digital Signal Processing [DSP].

Redmond, Washington, Us

* Write internal "Internet 2.0" web applications using ASP.Net 2.0 and AJAX.* Create and maintain SQL Server 2005 databases & stored procedures* Create internal tools using C# and VSTS

Redmond, Washington, Us

Author whitepapers, SQL Server Analysis Services documentation, and samples (VB and C#).

Universal City, Ca, Us

* Coordinated efforts of five developers, working in a team of fifteen, through the design, development, testing, and implementation phases.* Implemented license tracking software for Universal Studios, utilizing Microsoft Transaction Server, Visual Basic 6.0, ADO 2.0, VBScript, JavaScript, IIS 4.0, and SQL Server 7.0. This software follows the full process flow of creating a new musical product, from assigning various tracks to different media, to assisting in the calculation of optimal configurations based on royalty information.

Phoenix, Arizona, Us

Implemented quality assurance software for Best Western, utilizing Microsoft Transaction Server, Visual Basic 6.0, ADO 2.0, Access 97, Excel 97 as an OLE server, and Oracle 7.3. This software enables technicians to assess hotels in the field on laptops, and transfer the data to the back office in a batch process once a week.

* Analyzed, designed, implemented, and tested hotel analysis software for Starwood Lodging Corp. (NASDAQ: HOT), utilizing Visual Basic and Access. This software enables hotel managers to identify current and potential booking and revenue problems, as well as forecasting group income.* Maintained and enhanced a custom software accounting package in Access 97 for Interface Data. Was brought in during a critical phase to debug an undocumented application designed by a previous developer.* Maintained and enhanced an existing customer tracking and mass-faxing application for FAS- Hotline. Was brought in during a critical phase to debug an undocumented application designed by a previous developer.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

* Created a Windows interface in Visual Basic that launches any application, or its installation program, selected from the monthly CD-ROM (containing more than 100 programs).* Improved by 10,000% the time needed for orders to be processed.* Designed and implemented an application which automated credit card authorizations and deposits. This application automatically corrected errors, as well as maintained a steady flow of orders to shipping.* Developed a business analysis program, which displayed the current statistics of the business, from order entry calls to backlogs in shipping.* Designed and implemented a technical support call-tracking system, which tied to the order entry system.* Maintained and expanded existing Fox Pro order entry system.