Jim Gray Email & Phone Number

Building a new Video Game Production company from the ground up.

San Francisco, California, Us

The Existence, Us

Built and directed the Deadrop Gameplay Engineering team from prior to launch through the first six "snapshots" Coordinated with Production, Design, Art, Audio, Marketing, Core Engineering, et al.

Sausalito, Ca, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

In addition to leading the Engineering team on individual projects, I work closely with ILMxLAB's Engineering Supervisor to provide studio-wide guidance on core technology and Engineering best practices.

San Francisco, California, Us

Lead Engineer on Secrets of the Empire, Ralph Breaks VR, and Avengers, Damage Control. These are all location-based, co-op VR experiences developed in collaboration with The Void. Worked directly with the ILMxLAB and Void production teams to ensure the highest-possible quality, while meeting milestone goals. Tasked, guided, and led the ILMxLAB Engineering team. Coordinated with The Void's Engineering team. Established solid development practices for all team members (art, design, engineering, audio, etc). Developed gameplay mechanics.

Foster City, Ca, Us

Programmed gameplay for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and Call of Duty: WWII. Highlights of my work include: Physics and player controls for Advanced Warfare's Hovertank and Diveboat (single-player campaign).

Developed The Truck Game from initial conception to release, including all game programming (renderer, sound, gameplay, animation systems, object systems, etc), all tool and pipeline programming (Maya, etc), web programming (integration with mysql and PayPal), and joint game design (with Mike Badillo).

Worked on updates to City of Heroes.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Lead programmer for an unannounced, unshipped game. :(

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Jim programmed gameplay (camera, targeting, animation, player controls, etc) for two infamously-unshipped games: Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings and Star Wars 1313. Both were developed for XBox360 and PS3.

Agoura Hills, Ca, Us

Shipped titles included Destroy All Humans, Big Willy Unleashed (Wii) and Ratatouille (PSP). Also, I was lead programmer on the (unreleased) Stuntman: Demolition for Wii.

Us

I programmed gameplay for Eragon - an action/adventure game for PS2, XBox, XBox360 and PC. Worked closely with game designers to develop dragonflight gameplay, the camera system, the enemy targeting system, and Stormfront's proprietary level-editing tool.

I developed a proprietary 3D game engine, including physics, AI, scripting, and a Maya-based art pipeline. The main platform was Windows. Contract work included work on the Tapwave Zodiac (a mobile platform) and on Windows.

Burlington, Massachusetts, Us

Provided consulting and professional services to RSA's customers. Services included custom software development, cryptography training, and cryptographic protocol design.

San Jose, Ca, Us

I was the 15th employee at PayPal, where I helped them grow from conception to their first million customers. Managed all areas of the PayPal product, including the website, customer database, and back-end financial systems.

London, Gb

Researched and developed lightweight cryptographic protocols, such as WTLS. Consulted for RSA's customers. Worked with WAP standards body.

Tenure-track faculty member. Conducted research in computer security. Taught classes in Programming Languages, Operating Systems, and Cryptography.

Developed mathematical models of multilevel security for analyzing computer systems. Techniques included probability theory and concurrency theories such as CSP (Hoare) and CCS (Milner). Also analyzed covert channels using Shannon's information theory.

As part of a team, I conducted research in Multilevel Security for Database Systems. This work was part of a contract with the Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, NY, and results of our work were published in the proceedings of the 11th National Computer Security Conference, 17-20 October, 1988.