Ian Hall Email & Phone Number

Arvada, CO, US

Back-end engineer for Play Disney

New York, NY, US

• Member of the company's first Cloud Center of Excellence.Tech used: Go, Terraform, Spinnaker, GitLab, MySQL
• Set best practices for the company and trained developers to host their services in the cloud.
• Worked with teams across the company to find pain points in our development process and create automation to increase productivity across the entire tech organization
• Developed CI/CD tools
• Created Scaffolding tools for new projects and to migrate existing software

Seattle, WA, US

• Shipped: Internal tools to track electrical equipment and power usage across all Amazon data centers worldwideTech used: Java 8, Python, MySQL, TinkerPop / Gremlin, AWS CloudFormation, S3, Lambda, EC2, DynamoDB
• Created and championed a new service to provide data that enabled ~11% reduction of annual electrical consumption & equipment costs across all Amazon data centers.
• Developed electrical configuration simulator w/ live monitoring/alerts to optimize power configurations. Leveraged a flexible graph database for the real-world implementation of all power configurations.
• Worked with end users and other company stakeholders to establish operational priorities for 2019 and guided the development team with technical direction, and architecture design.Managed roadmap, backlog, and work.
• New system enabled electrical engineers to create validation w/ alarming to identify potential power failures prior to incident. System is proof for new electrical configurations via simulation

Burbank, CA, US

• Shipped: Marvel Avengers Alliance Tactics, Marvel Avengers Alliance 2, Tools Suite for Disney InteractiveTech used: C#, WPF, Mono, Java, ActionScript 3, FLEX, Unity 3D
• Managed a team of Software Development Engineers to create enterprise software used in developing several entertainment titles on mobile platforms and Facebook.
• Provided technical direction, oversaw agile software development process, worked with stakeholders including project managers, business and operations directors, and organization VP to ensure proper requirements and.
• Obtained headcount to expand team to 4 people, trained junior and mid-level engineers resulting in significant productivity increases and additional responsibilities.
• Pioneered effort to establish a single tools suite for all Disney Interactive studios.
• Developed data entry, 3D world editing, and art pipeline tools used in multiple projects.

Burbank, CA, US

• Shipped: Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor
• Tech used: C++, ActionScript 3, Scaleform
• Developed UI and designed UX for Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, and Playstation 4

Louisville, Colorado, US

• Shipped: LEGO Universe, Happy Flower world building tool used by the company and the external mod communityTech used: C++, ActionScript 2, Scaleform, Sql Server 8, Lua, IIS, Windows Forms
• Technical representative to handle on-site issues and showcase projects at trade shows including E3, CES, PAX, and Comic-Con.
• Built 3D level editing and database tools, developed gameplay features, 3D camera and character control, vehicles, and enemy behaviors.
• Integrated Lua scripting and C++ for rapid object behavior development.
• Sole tools programmer, supporting both internal developers and external game modders.

Bellevue, WA, US

• Shipped: Drawn to LifeTech used: C++, Nitro SDK (Nintendo DS)
• Created large part of the core software (save system, memory management, application architecture, input system, etc.) for the Nintendo DS as part of the company’s startup team.
• Implemented drawing tool with touch-screen interface for end users.