Imran Khan Email & Phone Number

Hyderabad, In

Hyderabad Area, India

Griptonite Games India Pvt Ltd, a fully owned subsidiary of Glu Mobile(www.glu.com), is a video game development studio based in Hyderabad, India, developing mobile-social games for smartphones. Glu Mobile (NASDAQ:GLUU) is a leading global developer and publisher of Social Mobile games for smartphone and tablet devices. The studio is focused on bringing the best in social, freemium, cross-platform mobile gaming experiences to the mass market.Worked with Glu Executive Team to grow the studio team to 60 member studio working on 4 tracks - Game Development, Server Engineering, Art Insourcing and Customer Care - with 24X7 operations.Built a bare shell location and managed relocation of the studio to SEZ (Special Economic Zone). Setup the internal processes and practices as per the regulatory rules.Worked as a Product Owner and with HQ Teams to drive product definition for games developed at the studio. Coordinated with Design, Development, Art and QA teams to build and deliver games.Coordinated with Server Engineering Team to create a light weight distributed server platform - CHORDS - to support the backend requirement for games developed at Hyderabad.Coordinated with teams - Legal, Licensing, Marketing, Business Development, Product Management, UA, Localization, Global QA Strike - to deliver games.Setup HR and IT team at the studio to support and run the studio.NASSCOM Gaming Chapter meetup Hyderabad - 2012 - http://www.slideshare.net/imrankhankaki/road-ahead-for-mobile-game-development

Hyderabad Area, India

FXLabs is the leading end-to-end game startup in India. Founded in September 2004, FXLabs began its operations building PC based games both for the Indian market as well as the global market. Provided direction for the studio as a part of Executive Studio Leadership. Working on Strategic and Budget Planning, Business and Product Development and Product Management.Worked on building relationship with Publishers, IP Owners and Content Providers. Worked on recruiting Tech, Art, Design and QA teams. Mentored team members on Game Development .Leading the Technical Design of Games being developed at the studio. Leading and mentoring the Game Design team on Games being developed at the studio.

Hyderabad Area, India

Played the role of Game Producer, Tech Lead and Design Lead for 3rd person action adventure game based on the hit Movie – Ghajini released in 2008 made on Garage Games TGEA engine.Role included- Production pipeline setup for Design, Art, Development and QA teams- Client Relationship Management with Ghajini Movie Team- Created Story line and Game Design for game- Researched Torque Engine and worked on gameplay prototype implementation- Setup parameters for the art production pipeline for TGEA based on min spec machine - Integrated nVidia perfHUD graphics analytic's engine to game code making it a tool for artist to benchmark levels for minimum specification machine without 3D graphics card.- Memory leak fixes and game optimization - Worked on compatibility and optimizing for Intel Integrated graphics with Intel APAC group (Intel, Bangalore)- Designed and Developed a multithreaded disc startup application to launch Installer/UninstallerNASSCOM Gaming Summit 2009 deck for Ghajini - http://www.slideshare.net/imrankhankaki/ghajini-the-game-development

Hyderabad Area, India

Worked as Tech Lead on Inferno – 3rd person RPG action adventure game based on Dante’s Inferno created on Epic Games - Unreal Engine 2.5. Role included setting up the team, tech collaboration, setting up workflow, development tools and creating an e-commerce website for sales and support. Role included- Setup Game Development Team, Tools and workflow- As a part of technology collaboration we worked with Irrational Games (2K Boston) Boston team on game engine development.- Porting game engine developed on Unreal Engine 1.8 to Unreal 2.5 for XBOX and PC.- Engine Programming to add features to the base Unreal Engine.- Implemented Language Localization for Inferno for UI, Closed Captions and Audio.- Integration of GameShield security to the game engine to enabling licensing.- Created an e-commerce website for allowing downloads on the game binary which included creation of private game keys on the server for users.

New York, Ny, Usa

TVTonic – Secure Digital Multimedia Delivery Platform TVTonic is a comprehensive secure multimedia delivery platform for paid channels that are provided by the content providers. It allows user to watch TV, DVD and secure media files using a scriptable custom built Media player. Wave systems(NASDAQ:WAVX) the parent company of Wavexpress designed the security hardware that TVTONIC platform uses to secure the media that is delivered to the paid clients. The security HW was used for adding DRM on the distributed content.My role as a Sr. Software Engineer was to design and implement the multimedia component for the TVTonic platform which required- Directshow based TV Tuner Card and DVD Player programming- DirectShow and Windows Media SDK Programming for securing content.- Windows System Programming for System event logging and user logs.- Design and Implementation of IE ActiveX Control- Integration with Windows XP Media Center - Pipelining for Media Encoding and Delivery

Vancouver, Washington, Usa

Designed and Developed an SDK for cross platform Media File Reader for reading AV files with Quick Time and Windows Media format. The SDK was used for creation of MPEG 4 content platform.

Princeton, Nj, Usa

Senior Software Engineer at eVue Inc, Princeton, NJ, a technology venture of Sarnoff Research Institute.- Optimization of Mpeg 4 Encoder and Decoder.- Developed MPEG4 Encoder Studio

Parsippany, Nj, Usa

Worked on the Signal Analysis Engine for predicting the optimal position for Cell Phone towers to maximize the signal strength on a 3D Terrain.

Hyderabad Area, India

Worked on Radar Signal and Image Processing on DRDO research projects to reduce false positives on radar signals and shape recognition software.- Detection and Tracking of False Positives in Radar Signal Processing- Tracking targets embedded in noise for Radar Signals using adaptive correlation techniques- Multi-Resolution analysis of Radar Signals using Wavelet Transforms

Be, Ece

Activities and Societies: Represented Osmania University Lawn Tennis Team - 1992,93,94,95. Runners Up on All India Inter Varsity Tennis.

Intermediate, Math, Physics, Chemistry

Activities and Societies: Represented Andhra Pradesh at All India Inter-State Lawn Tennis Nationals in Boys Under 16 event.

High School

Activities and Societies: School Topper at National Talent Search Exam, Jan 1988. Captain of the School Lawn Tennis Team. May 1989. Won.