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Chicago, Illinois, United States

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

San Francisco, Us

Working under the Games and Entertainment sector on the Emerging Technologies team. Supporting clients needs around gameplay, animation, tools, workflows, and other miscellaneous engine work.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Frostbite Engine Team - Animation• Served as lead engineer for porting legacy runtime animation tests to googletest on all platforms Frostbite supports• Augmented proprietary animation asset compiler, a mixed language asset compiler which generates C++, C#, and other pipeline code• Implemented highly-performant animation debug tool utilizing Dear ImGui• Improved overall performance of proprietary animation debugger toolkit• Refactored tangled animation update layer to reduce complexity and improve code readability• Debugged and resolved animation editor memory leaks which were leading to editor degradation over time• Profiled and optimized several systems and RPC co-routines that were leading to workflow/editor degradation• Quickly addressed, delegated, and/or resolved support requests that come up in various support channels• Mentored three engineers for onboarding and ramp-up

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Electronic Arts: Tiburon - Madden GameplayProjects: Madden NFL 17/18/19/20/21• Upgraded Madden NFL 20 animation engine to Frostbite (which embedded internal animation editor/pipeline into native Frostbite)• Debugged and resolved data indeterminism issues in Ignite and Frostbite animation pipelines• Assisted with porting Madden NFL 18 to Frostbite engine with an emphasis on animation• Served as product owner and lead engineer for Madden NFL 17/18 Ignite animation engine• Debugged and resolved hangs, race conditions, and memory corruption issues in multiple domains

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Electronic Arts: Tiburon - Central GameplayProjects: NCAA Football 14, Madden NFL 25/15/16/17/18• Served as lead engineer on animation team for Madden NBL 16/17 Ignite engine• Served as product owner for Madden NFL 16/17 animation support and "technical debt" clean-up efforts• Upgraded animation engine to support new platforms: XB1, PS4, Switch under Madden NFL Ignite engine• Implemented animation live-load system in-game; improving developer workflow efficiency across the board• Implemented an asynchronous animation asset loading system for presentation NIS packages• Implemented automated solution to export assets from animation pipeline and record diagnostics information• Mentored three animation/gameplay engineers

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Electronic Arts: Tiburon - Central GameplayProjects: NCAA Football 09/10/11/12/13/14, Madden NFL 09/10/11/12/13/25• Upgraded animation engine to support central Infinity engine• Designed and implemented "memory imaging" memory optimization technique for animation pipeline• Added 64-bit support for internal animation editor and pipeline• Assisted with implementing animation layer for Infinity engine physics and interfaced with team• Augmented internal animation editor and engine, plus supported developers across multiple teams• Implemented distributed data pipeline (using Incredibuild) for internal play-call tool• Integrated shared gameplay engine code between Madden NFL and NCAA Football• Managed, troubleshooted, and resolved integration conflicts and bugs; interfaced with multitudes of developers across central tech stack