Jacob Buck Email & Phone Number

Jersey City, New Jersey, US

• Leveraging my expertise in UX and online game development in the dynamic realm of Health IT, with a primary focus on Patient Engagement and mass communication. Spearheading the transformation of the company's software.
• Leading and growing software development teams, overseeing remote development, DBA, and DevOps units.
• Defined (and ongoing refining) Development and Deployment Strategy and Standards
• Established Development Platform and CI/CD pipeline (first Jenkins and then Gitlab and SaltStack GitOps process)
• Established Internal Knowledge Sharing Platform (based on Confluence)
• Spearheading the transition from On-Prem services to a new generation Cloud Ready architecture (e.g. Spring Boot, Docker Containers, Keycloak) in a private cloud environment (Proxmox cluster)

Jersey City, New Jersey, US

• Freelance developer on a number of projects:
• Autoremind Admin: Developing web based frontend and server backend (on distributed cloud architecture) for administrating mBox's Autoremind platform for user admin, system log analysis, statistics, surveillance.
• MobileProbes (2009-2010): Developed frontend (web and SMS/MMS) and server backend (on RackSpaceCloud virtual Linux instance) for conducting cultural probes via SMS and MMS as part of research project (including.
• Maintaining a customer portal (PHP, MySQL).

• Guppyworks v.2 / GuppyLife v.2:
• Implemented payment system and integrated QuickPay, Zong and Gettitcard.
• Helped modifying a wordpress website for launch in 3 languages and fixing various bugs.
• Consulting marketing staff on use of mass mailer tools.
• Consulting development team on choice of CMS and server integration.Kongo Interactive:
• Web editing.

• Exam censor on ITU in "Game Development", "Game Engines", "Computer Graphics", and various thesis projects (2005-2017).
• Guest lecturer on ITU on "Project Management" (2011-2012).
• Guest lecturer at KUA & Åbent Universitet on Media History of Games (2005-2013)
• Exam censor at RUC in Project Management (2010).
• Speaker/host of roundtable on Project DarkStar at GDC 2010.
• Guest lecturer at ITU on "Quality Assurance" (2007, 2008 & 2009).

Primarily exams on ITU on game development courses, DADIU projects and game related thesis projects

DK

• I was hired as the 3rd employee to recruit a team and produce a demo of a MMO game and have since been working on a number of projects (including an episodic game PennyGirl launched in August 2012). My focus to empower.
• Producer of PennyGirl, an episodic game (1st Episode launched in 9 countries and 2nd Episode launched in November 2012).
• Producer of MMO game demo of Riders & Ranches (with MEDIA Desk and New Danish Screen support).
• Recruitment (helped grow the company from 4 to 16+).
• Producer of the game Orla Frøsnapper for web (Unity3D) and Nintendo DS (published 2011).
• Producer of 2 game games for the movie Gummi T (Gummi Tarzan) for iOS (published 2012).

• Founder and coordinator of the Denmark Chapter.
• Established Local Community and have since grown the community and public awareness.
• Event Management (many successful social meetings and some industry theme nights).
• Organised IGDA Nordic Chapter networking booth at 3D Festival 2003 & 2004.
• Was part of Spiltanken, an independent non-political lobby for improving the Danish Games Industry.
• Co-founded Foreningen af Danske Spiludviklere as sub-chapter-organization to better organize and grow IGDA.dk.

• I joined the two founders as 3rd partner to set up a team and lead them through development the two main projects; HCA - The Ugly Prince Duckling and GuppyLife. With the overall responsible as Development Director I.
• Board member (2005-2007).
• Involved in all parts of product cycles (concept design, pitch, production, art, programming, audio design, QA, after-sales).
• Prepared and maintained development/production plans and budgets.
• Recruitment (helped grow the company from 5 to 25).
• Producer, co-designer, programmer on the award winning game HCA - The Ugly Prince Duckling and the prototype for the sequel.

• Oversaw development of many projects in all IAV offices as well as with external teams. This involved project recovery of projects I took over as well as starting new projects and getting them finished and published..
• Coordinated 5-15 simultaneous projects pr. year in 4-5 international studios (Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Lithuania) with international publishers.
• Finished some 30 games and SOHO products (PC, PS2, GBA, Palm, PPC, Mobile, web) published in most of the western world in multiple languages.
• Obtained Developer License for PlayStation2, Gameboy Advance and Nintendo DS.
• Represented the company at industry events; GDC, E3, GDCE, ECTS and EGN.
• Liaised with agents and publishers (pitch & prototyping - PC, PSX, PS2, XBox, GBA, Mobile, Web).

AU

• Managed development and production of some 50 game developers and Executive Producer on some 16+ published games (and 5+ unpublished titles) on PC, Playstation, Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance.
• Oversaw all aspects on all game projects while coaching and empowering project managers and other leads.
• Prepared and maintained development/production plans and budgets.
• Focused on process optimization, quality assurance, personal development of each individual in the teams and the general performance of the games department.
• Recruited 30+ developers (including full HR work).
• Established a new R&D department specialized in Cross-platform Development.

Oversaw development of a small game development team doing advanced AI research and game development. Also acted as lead programmer and game designer.

• Founder, Software Engineer, Project Manager.Main Clients: Aalborg University, Danish Ministry of Research, Norris Print-Tech.
• Designed and implemented research platform (1½ years Java & Swing)
• Developed a set of applications for the label printing industry on a DOS based mini-computer (2 years C++)
• Developed a Campus Event Bulletin Board at Aalborg University (4 months PHP&MySQL)
• Developed a number of data driven web applications incl. a conference tool (3 years PHP&MySQL)

Billund, DK

Contracted by the SPU Darwin Wizard Group. Designed and implemented research prototype (4 months C++ / Java / Swing) and consulted on VR & AI research projects.

Aalborg, Nordjylland, DK

Designed and implemented an extensive HW & SW platform for research prototyping at the Institute of Energy Technology.

Together with a few friends I formed a grasroot group of people across Denmark making "demos" (creative productions pushing old home computers like C64 and Amiga to their limits) and sharing these productions in an international sub culture. Many from this sub culture today form the pillars of the game industry. During this time I producer and programmed.

Established and managed a team of 2-4 C64 game developers, designed and programmed two game prototypes that both were cancelled when one of the publishers lost distribution and I decided to focus on finishing high school.

Non-Grad, Artificial Intelligence

M.Sc. E. E., Intelligent Multimedia

Highschool, Math, Physics, Computer Science, Design

Education record

Education record