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Sydney, NSW, AU

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Software engineer building Dolby Voice, a real-time scalable solution for online meetings, including conference room hardware. Product Manager for the Dolby.io API Service.
• Lead engineer for Dolby conference phone management software
• Backend built with Python, Django, PostgreSQL, & Redis; frontend with JavaScript, jQuery, and AngularJS
• Stepped into the Product Manager responsibilities successfully driving product direction and roadmap development
• Created the roadmap and release plans based on conference phone hardware releases and customer requests
• Planned and drove the evolution of the software architecture

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Led a hybrid team, combining local novice coders and outsourced developers from India.
• Worked with game designers, artists, and other programmers in developing prototypes of new games.
• Feature development for the BigWorld MMO game middleware.
• Real-time elements were developed in C++ and less critical sections in Python.
• Mentored junior programmers

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Senior programmer researching and developing new print rendering technology.
• Developed an innovative solution to a critical challenge in low memory rendering in C, resulting in a patent application.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Senior game programmer on a team creating a vertical slice of a massively multiplayer game proposal for Microsoft.
• Implemented innovative coop-play game features.
• Liaised with the game designers, level designers, artists and QA.
• Created tools for internal use, based on understanding the game designers’ needs.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Collaborated on over 15 published strategy game titles, primarily as a programmer or lead programmer, while also contributing as a game and level designer, UX/UI designer, tester, and tool creator.
• Ported Warlords to Mac, with a substantial UI update that influenced the direction for later releases in the series.
• Developed games for Mac and Windows, both as a single programmer and collaboratively within a team.
• Collaborated closely with game designers, level designers, and artists.
• Mentored junior programmers.
• Carriers at War II was the first released Mac game to support the PowerPC processor!

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Developed customer-facing support software for Sharp consumer hardware, leading a team of contractors.
• Created the vision for the project that was presented to Sharp.
• Designed the UI for the software.
• Software was completed on time and on budget.