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California, United States

San Francisco, California, Us

-One of two Engineering Managers on the forever franchise Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells.-Seven direct reports.-Provided technical guidance and mentorship to direct reports and assisted them in their career progression.-Set OKRs, progress checks and executed bi-annual performance evaluations.-Enabled direct reports to succeed through mentorship and by identifying gaps, improving engineering process and providing growth opportunities.-Established best engineering practices to drive excellence in quality.-Closely interacted with other departments such as PM, Design, UI/UX, Art, QA, to deliver planned features.-Facilitated a problem solving culture in the team as well as a culture of ownership.-Drove a culture of player focus to provide the best experience to our players.-Coordinated closely with other disciplines (especially Production and Product Management) to ensure alignment against larger organizational goals.-Maintained individual contributed duties because I still love coding and problem solving.-Owned and Improved an ever evolving release process to ensure quality releases to live users on a weekly basis.-Participated in the hiring process from recruiting through onboarding.-Has the appropriate charisma & communication skills to leverage influence to help the team.

San Francisco, California, Us

-On R&D and Prototype teams that eventually turned into shipped products, (Wonka's World of Candy and Harry Potter: Puzzles and Spells).-Lead a strike team to build the High Limit Room (Highgarden Club) in Game of Thrones Slots Casino.-Architected and Built fundamental systems to Harry Potter: Puzzles and Spells.-Built the onboarding experience.-Built the XP System.-Built the Spells System.-Built the Rich Profile system.-Built a data driven Post Rack-Up Flow system.-Built our first repeatable Event that became the basis for all feature events to follow

San Francisco, California, Us

-Continued work as the go to UI Engineer for the new game utilizing the same engine.-Expanded device orientation development standard for utilizing separate UI's for landscape and portrait views.-Headed tech development on a collection game mechanic and implemented it's UI.-Refactored the Sound Manager to support new requirements that sets the title apart from competitors.-Implemented a 'Sneak Peek' level feature that could be enabled, modified and have the ability to gain reads on player behavior without having a release.-Maintained engineer agility by 'jumping' onto non UI tasks when they needed to get done (Android back button, Save Data, and Audio).

San Francisco, California, Us

-Championed the UI effort by creating best practices when utilizing NGUI in a team.-Instrumental in the addition of a new social feature that required coordination with multiple out of studio teams.-Utilized Zynga services to create in game leaderboard system.-Created a handful of new gameplay mechanics and game flow.-Assisted with the mentoring of college interns and new hires.-Utilized existing Google Play and iOS plugin for implementing Achievements.

-Two man team that created a featured 'Best New Game' on US IPhone App Store.-Created and maintained all code systems for multiple projects as sole Programmer.-Implemented system design utilizing a pre-built FSM (Playmaker) tool and C# scripts.-Utilized NGUI for user interface and menus.-Used Prime[31] for GameCenter, Google Play Game Services and Vungle Advertisements.-Created Encrypted Save System.-Heavily involved in the overall design of the project and it's systems.-Worked closely with artist to make sure their needs were met.-Designed and built a majority of the games levels.-Maintained a production schedule and action item list.

Gameplay / Online Gameplay Programmer-Created various Gameplay systems (Combat and Level) in a component based architected system. -In constant communication with the design team to improve character and level design as well as created solutions to implement the design utilizing existing tech. -Strived to improve designers exposure to the back end by giving them as much information as possible through debug tools. -Supported and created many components for use online in a four player peer to peer hit authoritative schema. -Identified and solved online de-synchronizations.-Supported existing online framework and Vita Cross-Play feature.-Implemented many character designs to properly work online for four player peer to peer (FSM, Script and Editor).-After ship, was constantly searching for user feedback to identify bugs and ways to improve the product; Then, executed on that feedback.

Agoura Hills, Ca, Us

-Met the needs of the design team with focus on combat.-Expanded existing Match Modes system to be more robust.-Took responsibility in being sole programming support for various match types.-Created Cheat Code manager.-Re-factored existing Unlockables system to allow for more flexibility.-Created and modified various in game Mini Game systems.-Took over and completed an outsourced HUD Messaging system that was delivered incomplete.-Created an automated thumbnail generator to be used in the CAP UI. -Solely responsible for making the engine compliant for Xbox Demo TRCs.

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-Debug information for memory footprints of various systems.-Created a Create a Player FSM to reduce designer implementation time.-Expanded on the Story Mode tools to give ease and freedom to the design team.-Added checks into the FSM that reduced the possibility of designer error.-Implemented character attributes that modified various aspects of gameplay.

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-Set up and modified an existing automated build system for Binary and Asset builds.-Created a Binary/Asset archive accessible using a tool built in C#.-Wrote a system for displaying subtitles during arena and character introductions.-Gave the design tool the ability to show debug information regarding collision.-Modified existing head tracking code to designer’s specification.-Created demonstration builds of the project.-Made Xbox360/PS3 ISO’s on a regular basis.

Bachelor Of Science, Game Development

Computer Science