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Bellevue, WA, US

Some incredibly bright folks I was fortunate to work with on RIFT (and more!) band together for something very cool, new, and different

Encinitas, CA, US

Some truly excellent people (who also happen to be extremely talented) decloaked today! Really looking forward to seeing what these fine former MMO and Borderlands folks build toward in the future. https://venturebeat.com/games/barnyard-games-raises-3-4m-to-make-games-for-fortnite/

Los Angeles, CA, US

Two brilliant friends happened to meet up, discovered they have a near identical outlook on what to build next, and the rest is history.

Los Angeles, US

Kyiv, UA

San Marcos, California, US

Advisor, independent director, angel in PC/Console online/massive/live games & virtual worlds. 1st and 3rd party development & publishing, game production and launches, scaling and growth, org design, budgeting, fundraising, portfolio design, and other topics related to shipping great games.

San Mateo, California, US

Live games strategic consulting for PlayStation Studios. Short term contract.

Nicosia, CY

Brought in with a focus on new games & process. Greenlights, milestones, benchmarks, etc, with an eye toward western growth and keeping the player experience first.Led a global publishing and development org spanning seven countries and took its first game from production, through the transition from development mode to live operation, and into successful.

Redwood City, US

Recruited by the Board to set a new course for the company. Developed Trion Labs program for new product development which yielded our second big hit, Trove. Launched Trove, Defiance 2050, Atlas Reactor, and ArcheAge. Acted as EP/GM on first and third party titles as needed.Launched the Glyph platform for end-to-end operation, distribution, and publishing.

Redwood City, US

• Key role in taking Trion from its pre-launch stage through its first highly successful product launch (RIFT) and live operation. Substantively involved in all areas required to ship and run AAA online games.
• Created technology strategy needed to take the company and its first title to launch and beyond. Recruited to make it happen, then successfully executed.
• Transformed studio culture to one of focused decisions, shipping, and iteration.
• Integral role in major contracts and closing transactions, including M&A and multiple successful funding rounds totalling over $150mm.
• Senior exec team member and active participant in board meetings.
• Led external product evaluations and business model development.

US

Co-founded the company where we operated a total of eleven social games, including five existing games with 25m+ installs across four social networks and launched six new ones.Played an active role in raising series A from August Capital and Rustic Canyon and served on the company's Board of Directors.Headed development, recruiting, budgeting, IT and tech.

San Diego, CA, US

Led the EverQuest II team. Built a live and expansion development strategy around polishing the game experience and living up to its EverQuest heritage. Largely succeeded via releases of Echoes of Faydwer and Rise of Kunark expansions, while continuing monthly live content releases.Development and management experience on the top-tier MMOs EverQuest and.

San Diego, CA, US

Led engineering team and much of live operations and updates. Eleven month project in taking an MMO from an internal demo through alpha, beta, and launch. First dynamic content in an MMO. First fully voiced MMO. What this team did in this amount of time was nothing short of a miracle, though we would have all wished for another year to bake it more fully..

San Diego, CA, US

Led engineering and live updates. Hands-on gameplay development and personal ownership of many gameplay systems. Oversaw internationalization of the game's software. Launches of multiple expansions and international partnerships.

Architecture design, gameplay systems design, and beginnings of backend development for one incarnation of the Middle Earth Online development teams.

End-to-end game operations, platform management, community management, development for eight games on AOL's games channel. Created B2B online services and CMS tools for consumer companies looking to take their properties online.

Online games spinoff from Interplay. Promoted to running the company. Oversaw all internal operations and development and external partnerships with developers and partner platforms.

Created two 2nd party games as an external developer, brought in to work on and run internal games and platform engineering, culminating in 11 game launches (1st party, 2nd party, 3rd party) on our platform and four others.Developed online games, platform, and developer APIs for: in-house gaming destination, AOL, Kesmai, Compuserve, Prodigy, and others..

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US

Software engineer across many client engagements in a variety of technologies: C++, SQL, Windows and Unix, clients and servers, in a variety of industries: Telco Internet Services, Contact Management, Marketing, Insurance, Manufacturing, Legal. Development lead of the first commercial software used to submit a legal filing in the US.

Lead scripter, content and systems implementation and World Design for GemStone II and IIIOn top of a ton of behavior, command, and event scripting, this was where I learned that if there's a job that needs doing, you figure out what the end result looks like and work backward from there, then just go do it. Sometimes you have to figure things out along.

Content and Events implementation for Scepter of Goth, one of the first commercial MUDs