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Chicago, Il, Us

Decatur, Il, Us

Gloucester, England, United Kingdom

Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Gloucester, England, United Kingdom

Transformed an under performing team to meet the needs of a busy operations environment in a hyper competitive market.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Team lead for Systems and Platforms architecting and developing solutions for business requirements to meet the massive growth in full-fibre broadband.

Newton St Loe, Bristol Avon, United Kingdom

Reporting directly to the CTO, architected systems and processes to enable rapid growth of a startup fibre broadband provider in the South West.Worked with FreeBSD, python, icinga, telegraf, influxdb, mongodb, genieacs.

Bath, United Kingdom

Senior engineer in a busy operations environment dealing with all aspects of operations including managing databases, systems, infrastructure and security across several platforms dealing with millions of transactions.Handled automation, deployments, scripting, and testing.Worked day to day with python, MySQL, PostgreSQL, infobright, puppet, RHN Satellite, check_mk, tomcat, jboss, and Splunk.

St Louis, Mo

I was an integral part of the Systems team maintaining over 200 UNIX servers running HP-UX, SLES and RHEL Linux on a mix of VMWare vSphere ESXi guests and physical systems.I worked day to day with PHP, Java, Apache, iPlanet, nagios, mariadb, postgresql, kickstart, spacewalk and RHN Satellite, Tivoli Storage Manager and Splunk.I created a client/server multithreaded application in C++, with an oracle database, that scans filesystems on multiple systems for PII data as part of our requirement for PCI auditing. I also created a web front-end using php for viewing scan results.

St Louis, Mo

I worked with Goldhawk Interactive to port their PC indie game Xenonauts to Mac and Linux. The game went on to become a best seller with over 500,000 copies sold according to steamspy. Involved C++, Objective-C, Playground SDK and WINE.I worked on multiple iOS titles using Objective-C, and C#/Unity.

I ported PC Zone's top indie RPG Morning's Wrath to Mac OSX. I rewrote the whole game engine to run under OpenGL, and to be completely cross platform.I also worked on multiple open source projects, porting their games to work on Mac OSX as part of small and large teams. Also worked on networking and game mechanics.

I managed a small team, maintaining a dozen HPUX servers. I trained the team to use UNIX and worked to automate a lot of the work required for such a small and inexperienced team.I documented the procedures and policies to meet the strict standards required for a high security environment. I wrote a system to deploy and change configuration across multiple systems in each environment.

The now defunct Canadian game studio was working on a project titled “Soccer 3” as a follow up to Dino Dini’s Soccer for Xbox, Gamecube and PS2. The game was a 3D action sports game.My job involved managing QA, dealing with purchases of equipment and software, and helping the developers do their job as efficiently as possible.

My job involved providing community support and holding events. I worked on a MMO Football Game, that eventually was released as United Football. I created the whole game website in php and mysql from scratch. It let players view their squads and make changes, and view or search other players.I worked on Umbro Pro Football which was available inside special packs of Nestle cereal.

I worked on a number of projects at Dino Dini's (of Kick Off and Player Manager fame) game studio in Bristol, England.My job involved liaising with publishers, organizing meetings, and showing off demos.

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