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Greater Seattle Area

2019 - Current: Rejoined the the traffic shaping team at Amazon2017 - 2019: Worked on server systems for Amazon Game Studios' New World.2014 - 2017: Designed and led the development of a real time distributed traffic control system for Amazon's Service Oriented Architecture. It is currently deployed within Amazon and AWS.2012 - 2014: Maintained and expanded Amazon's core service framework and components.

Center For Game Science

While working in the Center for Game Science at the University of Washington, I lead the port of a Unity3D algebra game into flash. In addition to this I built a multiplayer matchmaking system for other ongoing department game projects.

Kirkland, Wa

While at Novel Inc, I was responsible for core engine technology on both of Novel's game projects -- Empire & State, and Retail Rush.

I built and integrated a character animation system into HER's game engine. It supported soft skinned animations with morph targets for facial animation. The animation system had a pipeline for importing Autodesk FBX content.I scripted two puzzles for the shipped game, The Haunting of Castle Malloy. I built the installer for the shipped game, The Phantom of Venice.

Was responsible for developing web crawlers and the frameworks which would display scrapped data to an end user. In addition to this, I was responsible for developing methods for automatically registering our user base with affiliated services (who did not necessarily expose an API). Technologies I worked with included PHP, MySql, Html and Amazon Web Services.

Was responsible for quickly learning both new technologies such as Ruby, MYSQL, JavaScript, etc. and existing proprietary technologies that the company had previously developed. I produced a web based game that allowed millions of users to compete with each other in a hot-or-not type of environment.