James C. Smith Email & Phone Number

Irvine, CA, US

Irvine, CA, US

Product Owner leading the creation of casual games for mobile focused on Solitaire and other card games.

Irvine, CA, US

Managing a team of game developers working on casual games for mobile including the most popular Solitaire game for iOS and Android.

Irvine, CA, US

Designing and building casual games for iOS and Android.

Seattle, WA, US

I personally designed and programmed the first 4 games for Kindle eReader devices and then lead a team of 4 to create 16 more games for the eReader. I was responsible for selecting the games to be built, defining their features, contracting puzzle writers/creators to build the puzzles, building the Java framework that was the foundation for all the games.

Seattle, WA, US

(Amazon acquired Reflexive in 2008 but maintained the subsidiary as “Reflexive Inc” until 2010)Lead the team creating many casual downloadable games for PC & Mac. I selected the games to be built, wrote the majority of the game code, managed artists, level designers and additional coders, ran external beta testing with past customers and submitted the.

CasualChatrs.com is a side project I did in my free time for a number of years while working at Reflexive/Amazon. The web site aggregates and archives the “Top 10” lists from many casual games portals to make interactive reports and queries. This is a tool I created for myself to track trends in the downloadable games business. I shared this tool with the.

Velocity Game EngineLead developer of the Velocity Game Engine used to make 15 PC and console games. My areas of focus included: -Multi-player networking framework-UI Framework / widget system-Event scripting system and GUI editor to allow designers to define scenarios -Level editor-Resource loader / un-loader-Reflections like meta data system for C++.

Developed retail PC CD-ROM games including Defiance and AstroRockDefiance (1997 - Windows - published by Visceral Productions / Avalon Hill)Part of a 2 man engineering team who built this multi-player 1st person shooter from scratch including a custom 3D polygon rendering engine. My areas of focus were:-All game logic including weapons and enemy AIs-All.

Part of an engineering team that developed education software including The Accelerated Reader, and S.T.A.R. (Standard Test for Assessment of Reading)

Sole developer of Bell CAD, a real-time multi-user computer aided emergency medical dispatch system in C for Windows NT.

Developed custom business applications for clients.

Developed retail business applications including Flex Calc spreadsheet.

While in school I spent most of my free time writing code. Below are a few projects that were published.Twilight II: Co-developed retail screen saver product. I wrote 20 of the 40 screen saver modules included in the product.FLI Convert: Video transcoding utility published in GS+ magazinePSE Convert: Terminal emulation transcoding and compression utility.