Making things go boom over the internet.

Hired to help with multiplayer programming on a VR title for the Oculus Quest, and in early 2020 moved on to help with gameplay and network programming for Back 4 Blood, the new co-op zombie shooter from the creators of Left 4 Dead.

Released Rend, a survival RPG on Steam. Primarily worked as a gameplay systems programmer, in addition to implementing backend services like authentication, a global official and private server index, and persistent player progression. I administered a fleet of bare-metal servers distributed around the globe, and served as the main live operations engineer detecting and diagnosing issues on live game servers, in addition to interfacing with the game's community to hunt down issues and help troubleshoot consumer networking issues. I also handled all IT infrastructure for an office of 20 employees, including internal networking and VPN configuration, and managed the build pipeline for Rend using an on-site Jenkins installation.

Helped to launch Evolve, a competitive/cooperative multiplayer shooter from the makers of Left 4 Dead, and architected many back-end game and support systems for its free-to-play conversion after. Also contributed to The Well, a Gear VR RPG, and several other unannounced titles. Architected and developed an automated web service deployment platform on top of RunC, an OpenContainer implementation. Configured an automated build pipeline for Unreal Engine 4 projects using Jenkins and various plugins.

Shipped WildStar, a AAA MMORPG published by NCSoft. Work involving network and systems programming with C++ and database administration with Microsoft SQL Server 2012. Responsible for QA and Customer Support tools built with MFC in C++. Architected and developed a live game and server monitoring web application using C++ and Node.JS on the back end, and HTML/CSS/JavaScript on the front end. Member of live response team tasked with diagnosing and fixing live game bugs and issues quickly.

Primary responsibility was back-end development and testing using PHP, Couchbase, and Redis. Also contributed to gameplay programming, UI development, and artist tool development. Handled gameplay programming on Munchie Mania and several other unreleased projects intended for launch on Facebook and iOS.

Designed and implemented a scalable server architecture to handle photo and video processing for GO HD, a location-aware media streaming application for iOS and Android. Developed the API and basic web application for managing and viewing content posted by users around the world.

Acting creative director, planned, designed, and developed the website infrastructure for the most popular Star Wars: The Old Republic fan site, manage day to day administration of the site, produce/edit video content and motion graphics, occasional editorial contributor. Site sold to Curse, Inc. in 2011 and all infrastructure and code replaced with their proprietary software.

Architect and execute various web properties for high-profile clients using Flash, PHP, MySQL/PostgreSQL, and other technologies.

Occasionally work as an interactive designer and developer on learning applications for medical and pharmaceutical companies. Primary tool is Flash.