David Ventura, M.E.T. Email & Phone Number

Stockholm County, Sweden

Stockholm, Sweden

Led product design and direction for all creative aspects of our titles: art, sound, and narrative. Managed multiple teams of artists, designers, and sound creators concurrently, ensuring that material produced was consistent and in line with the aesthetic and technical goals for the titles Backbeat and Hexagroove: Tactical DJ. Also coordinated and authored audio content from a group of ten external musicians from around the globe, providing content creation documentation and QA processes to bring all the material into the title. Directed titles have been nominated and won awards for excellence in design and audio.

Tokyo, Japan

Company for developing indie iOS App GaMBi, the highest rated chiptune player on the App Store. Combined open source sound emulation packages with a homebrew application frontend. Product design, maintenance, marketing, and third party collaboration all handled personally.

Tokyo, Japan

Provided contract services for the development and optimization of titles in production. Leveraged expertise included character animation, shader tuning, and algorithm optimization to reduce CPU load.

Stockholm, Sweden

Led the mobile group in a fast-paced startup environment as a line manager, project leader, and software engineer. Continued my work after our company was spun off from parent Propellerhead by developing interdisciplinary engineers and promoting corporate evangelism. Numerous self-initiated projects including external recruiting and collaboration with a technical school for software internships.

Stockholm, Sweden

Led the mobile group to fulfill its role in within the corporate goals. Planned for the future and grew the team through delegation and training. Key areas of focus included strengthening technical proficiency and collaboration, and employing a unified method of agile development. Organized numerous internal events for building trust, improving communication, and incorporating the latest technologies needed to keep our development at the forefront of our platform. Lectured at industry events evangelizing our company and platform technologies.

Stockholm, Sweden

Led the technical side the mobile business unit. Focused on developing human resources and processes to build a robust, strong, and balanced team. Achieved this through a number of self-organized routine activities including code floss, developer summits, peer review, and technical design management.

Tokyo, Japan

Leadership of eight member core technology team, including mentorship, evaluation, staff development, and serving as company liaison with OEMs and external partners. Worked with recruiting agencies and speciality schools for new hires, interviews, and company evangelism. Managed multiple software projects consecutively with scheduling, priority control, and title certification.

Tokyo, Japan

Led efforts for the founding of the company's first core technology group. Defined core system architecture for game logic and backend systems. Regularly engaged production teams for feedback on content creation pipeline to increase usability.

Tokyo, Japan

Served as lead and systems programmer for twelve titles on Sony PSP, Nintendo DS, Wii, and Xbox 360. Maintained and grew in-house rendering engine for a number of platforms: Windows, Xbox 360, and Wii. Designed and implemented studio-wide game music and graphics content authoring systems.

San Diego, California, United States

Maintained internal game engine source tree, QA builds to development teams, and build verification.

Kyoto, Japan

Investigated application of robotics as a musical educational tool for children. Applied rudimentary computer vision and haptics for data processing.

Redmond, Washington, United States

Lead several features for Microsoft Office Online team to provide internal and outsourced solutions to provide new content for existing Microsoft Office customers.

Master Of Entertainment Technology, Virtual Reality And Motion Capture

Activities and Societies: Graduate Student Council

Bachelor Of Science, Software Engineering

Activities and Societies: Theta Tau, Association for Computing Machinery

Music Theory And Composition