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London, Gb

London, Gb

London's newest AAA games studio.VC backed and built by veterans of the games industry and AI experts.Hiring now

London, Gb

Operating in countries across the Middle East, North Africa, India and Pakistan to provide equal opportunities for all children to access the very best educations

Santa Monica, California, Us

Leading engineering on Snap's social mapping application Zenly before it was sadly shutdown by Snap.

London, England, Gb

Helping scale engineering at a startup focused on helping everyone make better use of their data.

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Gb

FiveAI is the leading autonomous driving company in Europe. I oversaw all engineering management across the company, 120 engineers, directors & managers, product managers and 3D content creators in Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh & London working on all aspects of autonomous vehicle technology stack and tooling.

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Gb

I built and led a mixed team of engineers, engineering managers, product managers and content creators in the London office which I founded to provide simulation capabilities for the rest of the company that both enable our Autonomous Vehicles to learn and improve more efficiently and are used to test our cars before putting them on the roads.We built a set of simulation capabilities including generation of very high fidelity, photo-realistic simulation and very efficient high scale simulations for both training data generation and test & verification.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

I proposed, started and led the Oculus Engineering office in London, personally hiring all the initial cross functional team and founded the Oculus London studio; the first Oculus product development office outside the US in 2015. By the time I left we had grown to over 40 engineers, artists, designers, QA, user research, product and project managers. London contributed to the establishment and improvement of the Oculus platform with:React 360----------https://facebook.github.io/react-vr/We proposed and built React 360 (formerly called React VR) which is now the core technology that powers Oculus 1st party apps and much of Oculus's Web VR content.This tech is also used by external partners (TripAdvisor, AirBnB, NY Times and others). ReactVR fast established itself as a key global technology for building VR applicationsVR in the Facebook Newsfeed---------------------------------We brought ReactVR and the experiences it powers to the Facebook news feed. This propelled great immersive VR experiences such as the Jumanji experience starring The Rock, the British Museum VR tour and others to far far larger audiences (multiple millions of views) than they could previously.Oculus Rooms----------------https://www.oculus.com/experiences/gear-vr/1101959559889232/Oculus Rooms is a social VR experience available on GearVRThe flag-ship Gear VR social experience; join friends and family in VR to watch videos, play games, or just hang out and chat.Oculus Photos----------------Photos was completely rewritten using React VR and is a cornerstone Oculus app for viewing 360 media,Oculus Cinema-----------------Videos was completely rewritten using React VR and is another cornerstone experience.The London office also delivered the DRM and playback system for Rift when it was in danger of not being ready in time for Rift launch.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

I was hired into Facebook as a Software Engineer. But quickly got roped into founding the Oculus London studio. I spent one cycle successfully exceeding expectations as a software engineer and I also led an Ad Tech team for video campaign marketing within the Facebook London office and rebuilt the video delivery backend and a new tool for campaign advertising.

London, Greater London, Gb

I campaigned long and hard to bring Sleeping Dogs to new-gen consoles in the face of opposition in the form of lack of belief in likely sales and in the next-gen consoles. And when I won a consensus there were no product managers available to pick up the product so I agreed that I would act as the exec producer for the project in addition to continuing as worldwide technical director across all projects.Working with UFG in Vancouver, I oversaw all areas of development (engineering, production, design and art) as well as leading with QA, brand, marketing and sales. I was the top decision maker from creating the proposal to delivering Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition a PS4, XBox One & PC product for all territories.The game was shipped ahead of the originally scheduled time, on budget and went on to achieve great reviews and continues to exceed sales forecasts. It was considered a strong financial success for the business.

London, Greater London, Gb

Square Enix is one of the largest publishers of AAA games, (9th by revenue globally when I joined). I had technical oversight of all Square Enix external studios and projects in Europe, Russia, America and Canada. At peak 6 studios, 7 projects, 150+ engineering staff. Including projects on current & new-gen consoles, handhelds, mobile, tablet & PC platforms. Responsibility for internal projects, back-end systems & infrastructures and shared technology and collaborations with external providers and middle-ware companies.Responsibilities included:* Multiple titles and studios* Console, PC, Handheld, Mobile, Tablet Games* Strategic planning* Product road-maps* Risk management* Green lights* P&L* Milestone approvals* Release management* Due diligences* Contract negotiations* Tech collaborations & shared tech* Back-end systems & infrastructure* Middle-ware and platform holder liaisons * Ensuring we make great games on time and in budget* Technical teams across America, Canada, Europe & the UK totalling over 150 staffProjects included:* Just Cause 3* Sleeping Dogs* Life is Strange* Nosgoth* Heroes of Ruin

Cambridge, Gb

Reporting to the chief technical ninja I was responsible for building and managing a large team of programmers and technical designers building AAA projects for playstation and xbox.Responsibilities Incuded: * Developing technical strategy in the studio * Building and growing the technical team * Oversight of technical architecture * Technical responsibility for delivering our titles on time, on budget and to quality * Ensuring code quality * Team scheduling and planning * Working with and supporting the wider studio * Identifying and reducing development risks * Oversight of technical design documentation * Establishing development approach and strategy, including the adoption of agile methodology, peer reviews, use of static code analysis, etc. * All aspects of recruitment and staffing planning * Conducting staff appraisals * Multi-SKU Development * Research, evaluation & decision making regarding middleware and future tech development * Publisher & platform holder relations * Managing engineering teams and collaborations between Ninja Theory and Sony

Cambridge, Gb

Promoted internally into the lead game-play code role I was initially responsible for a small team of coders which quickly grew to a very large team.

Cambridge, Gb

Promoted to Senior Programmer I worked extensively on all of the game-play systems in Heavenly Sword.

Cambridge, Gb

Initially hired on a 3 month temporary contract, I was taken on permanently as a generalist programmer working on Heavenly Sword.After Argonaut entered administration Just Add Monsters was renamed Ninja Theory.

Gb

Lead programmer in a small team working on two childrens games which both went on to be multi-million selling titles based on the Thomas the Tank Engine license.Responsible for AI, general gameplay code and tools programming for Starsky & Hutch for PC, PS2, XBox and Gamecube.Developed a very successful in house scripting language specifically tailored to games development which is still in use at other studios to this day.Developed all the in house games networking systems. Unfortunately never used in a game due to design constraints.

Saint-Mandé, Île-De-France, Fr

Ubistudios formerly Grolier Interactive.Generalist Programmer.

Responsible for the development of multiple bespoke software projects for multiple clients.

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Ma(Hons), Computer Science With Physics & Maths

Computer Science

A-Levels

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