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Cary, Nc, Us

Cary, Nc, Us

Cary, Nc, Us

Working on the Epic Online Services SDK to empower all developers with a great variety of identity, account, and game services. The goal is to enable cross play and cross progression for all.

Cary, Nc, Us

Project: Battle Breakers (iOS/Android) Helped connect the game team to our existing online infrastructure with such features as in app purchasing with the Apple Store and Google Play and external identity providers like Facebook and Google.Project: Fortnite / Battle Royale (Desktop/PS4/XBOX/Switch/Android/iOS)One of the technical leads on one of our most exciting and technically ambitious projects yet. Part of the online game services group and responsible for many of the online features of the game (matchmaking, persistence, social) in addition to participating in much of the dedicated server work.Project: Paragon (PC/PS4)Applying and developing our existing online game framework to support the efforts of our vision in the MOBA space.Project: Unreal Engine 4Helped design and implement the latest online features for Unreal Engine 4, including integration of the Opus codec for low latency speech and a full integration with Valve's Steamworks SDK. Involved with community outreach and support, helping our partners and enthusiasts leverage the power of the engine.

Cary, Nc, Us

Project: Gears of War: Judgment (Xbox360)Part of the shipping team to help get the project out the door during its final months of production. Helped with LIVE and multiplayer stability, dedicated server infrastructure, and the various stats and leaderboards in the game. Worked with publisher in deployment/rollout of the dedicated servers at the various datacenters around the world.Project: Gears of War 3 (Xbox360)Game team member, implemented some gameplay features, the dedicated server framework, many XBOX LIVE features, achievements, stats, and leaderboards. Beginning to understand analytics and charting to improve business insight and decision making.Project: Gears of War 2 (Xbox360)Game team member, contributed to vehicle physics, gameplay, performance and UI. Later, part of a major update (TU6) to restructure the online matchmaking and add dedicated server support as a trial for Gears 3 infrastructure.Project: Unreal Tournament 3 (PS3/PC/Xbox360)Game team member, contributed to gameplay, statistics, online presence and UI features on all SKUs. Part of 3 man team to later finalize/port the game to the Xbox360.

Irvine, California, Us

Project: NextGen Title (Xbox360/PS3/Win32)Lead programmer on a next gen title. Help to develop a cross platform engine to support Namco's upcoming internal titles. Managed the tech schedule including milestones and feature requests from artists, designers, and producer.Project: Cancelled Title (PS2/Xbox)Responsible for the architecture and implementation of a large scale terrain engine. Investigated and applied various algorithms relating to multi-pass rendering, texture blending, occlusion culling, and level of detail. Regarded as a utility programmer capable of handling numerous tasks outside areas of concentration.Project: kill.switch (PS2/Xbox)Integrated streaming and positional audio using the Renderware Audio cross-platform engine. Implemented numerous gameplay features including the objective and weapons systems. Wrote the level loading system as well as the level exporting tool. Supported artists and designers in the setup and use of the Renderware engine.

Project: HBO Boxing 2003 (PS2, Gamecube, Xbox)Crucial to the rapid development of a technical demo for the game proposal, implementing the core render pipeline and exposing various engine features to be used in the game. Responsible for the design and implementation of the mini-game training and career aspects of the game. Owned and implemented an inverse kinematics, skeletal system solution to handle collision resolution and boxer height differences.Project: Second Generation Cross Platform EngineAssisted in the architecture of the cross platform engine API and implemented the Gamecube portion of many features including Z-buffer self shadowing, render to texture, 2D primitives, and culling. Acted as engine liaison to the Supercross Gamecube port team. Implemented the Supercross terrain rendering code and ported the projected shadow routines. Credited with engine development on the Legends of Wrestling Gamecube port.

Salt Lake City, Utah, Us

Designed, created, and managed modeling tools for the production of large-scale graphical terrain databases used in visual simulation. Responsible for the entire lifecycle of many critical enhancements to existing product functionality including computational geometry, shading, and NURBS surface representations. Implemented new tools that convert, modify, and manage industry standard source data. Lead engineer on a project resulting in completion of a large contract. Learned numerous design process methodologies.