David Rieman Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington, United States

Developing media application features in a large, cross-platform, JavaScript-based framework. Often operating as the lead developer for business-critical, user-facing features.(More details to come later.)

Seattle, Wa

Senior Software Developer in Xbox Practice and Windows Practice - Manager: Scott GroganRatio takes contracts for a wide variety of clients and platforms, focusing on multimedia and multi-screen apps. Some of my notable contributions here:* Lead, often solo, dev in charge of building our company-vital RatioTV framework on 4 new platforms (Windows Phone, Windows Tablet, Xbox One, and Roku), while meeting client project deliverables.* Played a key role in bringing the company to where we can quickly and profitably build multi-platform RatioTV applications, yet with feature-rich, high quality, platform-native experiences at each endpoint.* Advocated for agile processes, CI, TDD (or at least utilizing automated testing on platforms where TDD is impractical), and architecting code for simplicity, quality, testing, and reuse.* RatioTV dev lead roles on applications such as Disney Movies Anywhere (Xbox 360 and Roku), BYUtv (Windows Tablet, Windows Phone, Xbox One), and other unannounced and secretive clients.* Senior SDE roles on Sony DADC Demo (Xbox One), and at least 8 Xbox 360 titles.* Languages: C# (including Silverlight), JavaScript, BrightScript, an XML DSL, some C++, and others.* Platforms: Windows Tablet, Windows Phone, Xbox One, Xbox 360, Microsoft Cube, and Roku.

Role: SDE in QA Tools for Central Technology Team (CTT) - Manager: Eric Gross* Build system administration for multiple titles, using a shared server farm with a complex pipeline, and frequently changing business requirements (such as the addition of new platforms and prerequisites).* Developed new build scripts and processes such as automated watermarking and build notes collection.* Tamed a complex multi-layer remote communication stack for usage in game automation.* Development of in-game automation hooks (C++).* Quickly implemented wide-scale nightly automation with focuses on matchmaking and random input tests, starting with the automation framework developed for Snowblind’s title.Role: SDE in QA Tools for Snowblind Studios - Manager: Ralph Lewis* Sole build system administrator for a large title’s code and asset build pipelines.* Developed a solid, multiple-layer, reusable automation framework from the ground up (as the studio’s first professional use of automated game testing), supporting Xbox 360, PS3, and some PC automation.* Developed automated continuous build verification tests (BVTs) and wide-scale nightly test automation, which found more unique high-severity bugs than any tester on the project.* Developed telemetric data gathering and associated reporting site, primarily for performance analysis.* Implemented depot checkin validation triggers which helped reinforce a clean depot by requiring checkins to adhere to rules like file naming/relativity conventions and target platform requirements.* Maintained and improved the debug log/crash report tool for the title, with auto-update functionality for 4 different testing locales (internal and outsourced), each with unique access/reporting challenges.* Designed, created, and evangelized various other tools and process improvements, including one which saved, on average, an estimated half hour per studio member every single work day.

Role: SDE for GTO Dev Org (Dev Squad Ninja) - Managers: John Rush, J McBride* Led research and software design for XboxInput, a managed library for simplifying input automation.* Continued developing and evangelizing the Shared Automation Framework (ShAF).* Developed improvements for an Xbox 360 native application which facilitates automatic crash uploads.* Improved a VSTS module which gates the quality and maintainability of code by requiring it to pass StyleCop and CodeAnalysis rules, and build in a clean environment, before allowing checkin.* Developed a native stress test application for XMonitor, an Xbox 360 output and event monitoring tool.* Direct management of one contingent staff.Role: Project SDE for GTO ISS Test (Halo Wars) - Manager: Kevin Verboort* Full responsibility for the game project automation story for Halo Wars, from design to development.* Implementation of debug game automation hooks and integration between code branches.* Led development for the Shared Automation Framework (ShAF) and related tools.* Led development for the game automation layer for Halo Wars, providing a powerful yet simple base, with which even relatively inexperienced automation scripters developed useful automation scripts.* Developed a service which automatically pulled down builds from a remote location, and reported by email to test when builds were ready for testers to utilize, etc.* Developed an automated BVT system to verify the game builds on dedicated Xboxes.Role: Build System SDE for Turn 10 Studios (Forza 2) - Manager: Abby Lyn* Build system administration for a complex build pipeline, across a lab of dozens of remote servers.* Managed multiple high-priority, mission-critical tasks on an every-day basis in order to keep the whole studio functional; extreme time and stress management.* Drove/implemented new processes and tools to simplify and improve the overall build process.Role: Project SDE for GTO RAT Test (Vanguard - Manager: Eric Lee...

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Managed by Marlene Vollbracht (now retired)Volunteer work and short paid contracts... further details provided upon request ...

Associates Degree, Real Time Interactive Simulation

Computer Science