Senior Technical Director
CurrentAs part of the Activision Central Technology group, I am working together with internal and external Activision studios to develop leading-edge tech for upcoming AAA+ games.
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Jan Van Valburg is listed as Senior Technical Director at Activision, a with 2215 employees, based in Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at activision.com, phone signal with area code 310, and a matched LinkedIn profile for Jan Van Valburg.
Jan Van Valburg previously worked as NO RECRUITERS PLEASE at No Recruiters and Core Tech Department Lead at Bizarre Creations. Jan Van Valburg holds Vwo, Dutch, English, Maths, Geography, Economics, History, Physics from Lienward College.
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A highly skilled and driven individual, with extensive experience across all aspects of game programming and over 8 years experience as a lead.Specialties: Lighting, engine programming, multi-threaded programming, making good stuff happen.
Listed skills include Ps3, Xbox 360, Game Programming, Game Development, and 6 others.
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Manchester, England, United Kingdom
As part of the Activision Central Technology group, I am working together with internal and external Activision studios to develop leading-edge tech for upcoming AAA+ games.
Responsible for up to 12 programmers, including planning and scheduling of tasks, specifying milestones, facilitating communication with other teams, hiring, performance reviews and mentoring.Key Achievements:- Implemented a new build-system from scratch which has been used in all games since Blur 1- Implemented lightweight physics engine for simulating dynamic objects in PGR4- Co-developed new rendering engine from scratch which was used in all games since Blur 1- Set up an R&D strike-team composed of artists and programmers to work together on improved graphics technology for unreleased racing game- Co-developed new vehicle rendering tech for unreleased racing game
Responsible for implementing new tools and core systems as part of the tools teamKey Achievements:- Implemented a lighting tool from scratch which was used to light the environments, characters and vehicles of PGR3 and all subsequent Bizarre Creations games- Implemented a grid system which utilised spare CPU capacity of PCs in the office to perform lighting and PVS processing- Implemented a distributed asset-processing system, including network server/clients, recording and filtering of log files, stats reporting, e-mail integration and a web-frontend for the user to view log files, status, etc.- Co-presented a talk called "The First Generation of the Next Generation: A Project Gotham Racing 3 Postportem" at GDC in London- Set up Bizarre's first build server for PGR4/The ClubImplemented low-level systems such as logging system, file system/serialisation, memory allocators, hardware abstraction for multithreading and network functionality, etc. which were used in PGR4 and all subsequent games
Programmer on N64, PS1, PS2, Dreamcast, PC. Games include Wetrix, Future Tactics, Taz Express.
Worked on the video game for the Disney movie 'Hercules'
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Jan Van Valburg holds Vwo, Dutch, English, Maths, Geography, Economics, History, Physics from Lienward College.
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