Jacob Harrison Email & Phone Number

United States

In-development undisclosed project leveraging XR & AI

Los Angeles, CA

• Founded an independent development studio that develops an internal game IP, provides software development tools on the asset store(s), and offers software development services. The vast majority of development.
• OURO (https://www.playouro.com) is a cosmic online trading card battler for mobile platforms developed in Unity

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Led development on Verizon - AR Pro Interactive app, a mobile AR experience with a rotating catalog of volumetric captured athletes and custom visualization
• Closely worked with engineers to mentor their technical skills and execution, creating tech talks on advanced subjects such as architecture, automation, and pipelines
• Assisted in standardizing technical documentation, creating flow charts, and TDD templates
• Coordinated with production for project estimation and task creation for all lifecycles
• Continue to establish, iterate, and provide new core technology solutions in coordination with other developers

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Led development on General Mills - Star Wars - Cereal AR module which integrated into the official Star Wars mobile application, where users could scan targets on cereal boxes to trigger AR mini-games
• Led development on Black Eyed Peas - Masters of the Sun - In-Concert AR experience that used audio recognition to trigger and sync AR experiences during an international BEP tour
• Led development on Honda - Mountain View - Dream Drive where we interfaced with data from a driving car via a socket server to drive around in a digital themed world to Trolls; users viewed through a VR Oculus headset.
• Designed and built an interfacing wrapper for many Unity AR experiences to integrate into the official native Star Wars mobile app
• Assisted as a senior developer on many other projects to provide expertise on architecture, systems, pipelines, or UI
• Revamped core architectural patterns away from anti-patterns (i.e. singleton to service locator), and re-wrote outdated legacy services for a lot of common functionality needed on all Unity projects

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Led development on Honda Dream Drive for CES 2019, where we developed a client in Unity with an interactive on-rails experience
• Led development on Unannounced Honda XR project leveraging Microsoft HoloLens to visualize conceptualizations at full-scale with 6dof to view it from every angle
• Coordinated with senior developers to establish standardized core technology repository and practices
• Established CI/CD automation utilizing Jenkins along with custom build scripts to handle making and uploading builds & assets
• Initiated standardization of common Git practices to utilize GitFlow processes to help leverage CI/CD to it's full capabilities

San Francisco

• Worked on the client for Star Wars: Uprising and Spirit Lords, both of which are online action RPGs released on iOS & Android developed utilizing the Unity game engine.
• Assisted with the release of Spirit Lords with a focus on UI stabilization leveraging NGUI
• Implemented many features (crew, crew runs, merchants, abilities equip, chat, mail and friends) within a tight deadline that were based on legacy code from Spirit Lords
• Developed revamped implementations of socialization for more engaging features while refactoring & expanding core systems to provide needed functionality
• Provided and coordinated solutions for feature builds, automation, and tools to improve build stability and iteration speed while in development

San Francisco, California

• Worked on the following Flash web games: Battleshard, The Hobbit: Armies of the Third Age, The Godfather: Five Families, and Dragons of Atlantis.
• Launched and developed two games (Battleshard and The Hobbit) leveraging client-server architecture
• Created & managed multiple proprietary UI system(s), while providing development on new UI features
• Continued to release features and content to production, refactor & stabilize existing systems, and improve (asset & build) pipelines on multiple titles
• Setup and managed continuous integration leveraging Ant and Jenkins