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AI strategy, architecture, and implementation for Project Nexus. Applying machine learning to analyze real player experiences and derive insights that help game developers improve their games.

• Leveraged my extensive background in machine learning and game development to shape AI product strategy for Project Nexus, an all-in-one solution that helps teams collaborate with their community at scale, at every.
• Use case discovery, value proposition, and competitive analysis for generating AI insights from gameplay experience data.
• Product planning for feature prioritization and resourcing.
• Prompt engineering to demonstrate automatic generation of user experience reports.
• Architecture for AI components and implementation patterns.
• Evaluation pipeline for dataset management and quality metrics.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Worked directly with ISVs including MATLAB, ANSYS, Siemens, FlexSim, and Hexagon to seamlessly utilize their simulation modeling software as a reinforcement learning environment.
• Managed technical ISV relationships to successfully ship 11 integrations between simulation platforms and Bonsai.
• Trained sample reinforcement learning controllers for simulations including: Dymola electric aircraft, Altair quadcopter, and Altair vehicle HVAC.
• Designed logging and diagnostics system for troubleshooting issues when scaling to hundreds of simulations running in parallel for days or weeks.
• Improved SDK, documentation, and templates used by ISVs to execute their Windows simulation software as reinforcement learning environments, scaled in Azure via Docker containers.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Worked directly with enterprise customers to envision, prototype, and implement mixed reality solutions. Created solutions to make workers more effective via collaborative planning, design, and training.
• Delivered 5 proof-of-concept engagements with high customer satisfaction.
• Supported team processes as the studio grew from 5 to 20 team members.
• Interfaced with customer data formats and web services to import data for 3D visualization, including geospatial and IoT data.

Seattle, WA, US

• Led a team beginning with seven engineers and growing to fourteen engineers (7 direct reports, 7 borrowed from other teams). The Unmaking is an action/strategy game developed with Unity. It features gameplay streamed.
• Shipped The Unmaking in thirteen months from conception to completion. Met a challenging schedule at all phases of development: conception, prototyping, GDC demo, feature complete, polish, and bug fixing without.
• Coached the team to overcome engineering challenges including: optimization of pathfinding for thousands of enemies, instanced rendering of thousands of enemies, behavior systems for very large enemies, utilizing.
• Organized tasking, prepared project plans for studio leadership, and coordinated between engineers, artists, and game designers.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Galactic Reign (Windows Phone, Windows 8, Windows Azure)Designed and implemented core logic for all gameplay systems: economy, fleet movement, ship design, and combat simulation. Coordinated and maintained stable.
• Mobile Studio (publishing)Invented a system for reconfiguring games without using title updates. Coordinated with producers, business analysts, and testers to create a strategy for collecting analytics across our.

Bellevue, Washington, US

• Counter-Strike: Global OffensiveSuccessfully stitched together large legacy codebases from different Source engine branches to implement Xbox LIVE matchmaking and dedicated servers.
• Game prototyping and vertical slice for unannounced title9 months of rapid prototyping in C# for a tactical RTS game followed by implementation of the gameplay simulation, AI, and network multiplayer features for a.
• Wits & Wagers (Xbox Live Arcade)Built tools used by artists to create dancing characters.
• GoDance (downloadable game for GoPets virtual world)Conceived and implemented a multiplayer networking system using Jabber chat rooms. Saved money and simplified server operations by using Jabber servers that were.

Redmond, Washington, US

• FASA Studio (Shadowrun)
• Microsoft Surface (multi-touch table)
• Xbox Advanced Technology Group
• DirectX Audio team
• Visual Studio environment team
• Visual Studio diagramming tools team

B.A., Computer Science And Economics (Double Major)

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