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Cary, Nc, Us

Redmond, Wa, Us

Redmond, Wa, Us

Redmond, Wa, Us

Working on Halo

Santa Clara, California, Us

Led a cross-geo team of graphics performance engineers optimizing games and engines, advising on the design and implementation of major driver performance features. Worked across the company to found and implement the "Launch Drivers" program, releasing graphics drivers with fixes and optimizations for top games at launch and more than doubling the release cadence.Was the graphics technical lead for game developer relations, optimizing games and engines, researched and developed bleeding-edge graphics architecture features, and curated, reviewed, and developed technical content and messaging for GDC and SIGGRAPH.Also covered as the program execution lead for all of gaming, developed the games enabling strategy, defined goals, and curated targets.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Was the project lead and driver architect for the first DX12 driver at Intel. Lead a cross-discipline group of functional and performance engineers to deliver the the most reliable DX12 driver, with the highest certification test passrate versus competition. Owned development, scheduling, staffing, and strategic engagements. Helped define the DX12 spec, and was a primary contact for Microsoft. Advise several strategic partner game studios how to implement DX12 rendering engines, focusing on both functional and performance issues. Responsible for the driver used in the DX12 launch announcement at GDC 2014, and Intel's DX12 showcase for GDC 2015. Several advanced development areas including Vulkan driver development and one of the first Vulkan demos, cross-component security development, advanced performance studies to improve future hardware, and being the primary contact and product owner for joint efforts with Microsoft.Was previously the product owner for the DX9 "Skylake" 6th Gen drivers, responsible for schedule, tools, and feature definition. Developed a new methodology for developing and validating drivers even earlier in the product cycle, before silicon.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Worked with a high-performance team to rewrite the Intel Processor Graphics DX9 driver from scratch. As one of the driver architects I implemented the resource creation, resource tracking, cache flushing, locking, and aliasing code. Also developed several key driver framework concepts for speed, readability and code quality. I also conducted dozens of performance studies to guide the mega-features of the architecture. Ultimately achieved a 10x speedup in 1/10th the lines of code over the previous driver, resulting in the most CPU efficient DX9 driver versus competition. Received an Intel Software Quality Award, the highest software award at Intel. Previously co-owned the Larrabee Kernel Mode Driver and implemented a number of performance tracing systems to integrate with Intel's Graphics Performance Analyzer. Larrabee was restructured in 2009 to become Xeon Phi, an HPC server device.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Developed a prototype DX10 driver for Larrabee and achieved the DX10 "first triangle". Debug and feature work on Larrabee hardware simulator and capture tools. Technical skills involved C++, DirectX, and Graphics Hardware Architecture.

Towson, Maryland, Us

A fast paced startup company specializing in bioinformatics. Continued development of a patient management system. I was responsible for core technology development, owned mission-critical client accounts, and developed prototypes to apply for grants. Primary technical work was in SQL database design, Ruby on Rails, and HTML front end. Worked full time during the summer and contracted year-round while attending school.

Baltimore, Maryland, Us

Researched and prototyped a patient management system for Johns Hopkins Hospital. Primary work involved SQL database design and maintenance, Java, C#, and Ruby on Rails. Completed 2 internships in the summers of 2005 and 2006.

Ms, Computer Engineering

Bs, Computer Engineering