David Cham Email & Phone Number

Boston, MA, US

Private, MA, US

• Oversee the leadership/management team, Manage budgets, Studio P&L, Biz Dev, overseeing recruiting and hiring, and policies.
• Hands on Engineering in Unity & Unreal, Gameplay, Multiplayer Systems, Augmented Reality, Camera to in-game face animation, AI, VR projects.
• Oversee new game creation and lead effort to sign new deals.
• Create Production and Budget plans and game pitches internally and for customers.
• Lead efforts to highest grossing year for the studio in first year with company.

• Oversee the leadership/management teams for Art, Engineering, Design, Product, Production, QA, Player Services.
• Setup Studio Vision, Policies and Procedures, Manage budgets, Studio P&L, overseeing recruiting and hiring, and policies.
• Oversee new game creation and lead efforts to sign new game deals. Mentor leadership and every member of the studio to find career opportunity and growth.
• Ran the Star Trek Timelines team both in Boston and over seas, game runs on iOS, Android, PC, Web: http://www.startrektimelines.com/
• Hands on Game prototyping: game play, graphics

New York, NY, US

See Wicked Realm General Manager Description. Owned by Tilting Point.

Framingham, Massachusetts, US

• Directing the Development of Mobile Games and doing Full Stack development (Client, Server, Platform),
• Run Engineering/Production/QA.
• Mentor and grow managers and developers
• Hands on unity development of multiplayer, game play, shaders and C# micro-services for our platform
• Hands on coding on Archer: Danger Phone Idle Game to fix UI and rendering issues

Framingham, Massachusetts, US

• Directing the Development of Mobile Games and doing Full Stack development (Client, Server, Platform)
• Manage Departments Engineering, QA, Ops & Production
• Lead and mentor managers to grow to full potential
• Direct efforts internally and with external contractors to scale our AWS backend to run more efficiently and cost effect.
• Work with Unity3d Engine CTO, Directors and engineering team on improvements to their engine and hands on code changes to fix issues in the Unity3d Engine code base
• shipped Star Trek Timelines

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Drive the technical direction of the GSN Casino Mobile App on iOS and Android platform. This includes conversion of mobile app architecture from java, objective-C and C++ to Unity4, enhancing PHP server side.
• Hire and manage team of mobile engineers to create games and support GSN Casino and future apps using Scrum methodologies
• Working with internal teams and multiple 3rd party vendors to coordinate creation and conversion of mobile games into the Unity 4 architecture. This includes setting technical expectations, regular code reviews and.
• Work with product team to define and implement key features
• Work closely with QA department to ensure quality standards and ship product on a monthly basis to millions of customers.
• Work with GSN executives to set long term mobile product goals and direction.

Providence, RI, US

• Built out the core game play server architecture with a small team of Senior Engineers. This provided a clear model for the building and interaction of all subsequent server game play systems.
• Designed and wrote Server Combat Code. The system was very flexible and put into designer hands the ability to mix and match effect types (damage, knock back, pull target, charge, stat mods, triggered etc.) and target.
• Wrote client runtime and authoring tool for synchronized playback of animation, audio, vfx, sfx, camera control, lip-sync, and Kismet interaction in the Unreal Engine. This was used for combat and many other systems in.
• Maintained/Enhanced code integration between BigWorld and Unreal.
• Improved BigWorld RPC processing response time.
• Built out a python unit and integration test frame work that emulated the BigWorld Server, so that all game play systems could be tested with every code check in.

Redwood City, CA, US

• Manage development and delivery of audio software for multiple video game teams with overlapping production schedules. Including Steven Spielberg games (Boom Blox, LMNO), Medal of Honor, Tiberium.
• Manage customer relationships at EALA and EA World Wide.

Redwood City, CA, US

• Leader of architecture, product direction, and development of audio runtime and tools software. Tool set provides intuitive UI, sequencing, flexible asset management, live in-game mixing, DSP plug-in chain authoring.
• Manage customer relationships at EALA and EA World Wide.
• Installation of custom audio engine into Epics UNREAL Engine (UE3). Involved replacing majority of UE3 audio engine with custom audio solution and enhancing portions of existing UE3 Audio Engine

• Designed and implemented real-time 3D Audio sound simulation for use with driving simulator.
• Software development for driving simulator experiments including: Scenario control, Hardware in the loop, Sound Studies (sound recording, editing [SoundForge], analysis [MATLAB]).
• Driving simulator (6 DOF Motion Base): system software and hardware. (Vxworks, C++, Multi-computer system PowerPC, SGI, PC, network interface)
• Real-time embedded control code for Remote Controlled Motorcycle.
• Real-time embedded control code for Automatic Steering Controller.(QNX)
• Socket level programming for real-time remote control of vehicle steering. Controlled via Ethernet control loop.

Wrote software systems for Multimedia Tutorials.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Education record