John Manna Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

New York, New York, Us

• Unity3D development (C#/iOS/Android).• Development of a suite of Microservice frameworks to power games as a service (accounts, game state synchronization, campaign delivery, feature configuration, leaderboards, analytics).• Collaboration with project managers & engineering management to improve process and bring forward best practices increasing efficiency and improving visibility & estimates.• Mentoring junior team members on software development best practices including communication, planning & risk, and design patterns.• Development of asset pipeline tools for art and game content used by artists and game designers in a new IP.• Development of various AI/animation related game mechanics in a new IP.• Development of multiple prototypes including implementation of UI, puzzle mechanics, meta game concepts. • Maintenance and upgrading of projects built with Unity3D to recent versions of the engine and updating the various SDKs products depend on.• Interviewed candidates for technical positions.

Calgary, Alberta, Ca

• Unity3D development (C#/Windows/Mac/WebGL/iOS/Android).• Created Socket.IO solution to provide online multiplayer for a Mahjong game. Created messages needed to sync game state and chat.• Implemented deep linking callbacks to allow the Mahjong app to work with the product’s website.• Iterated on the product’s presentation including visuals, UX, and animation.• Implemented UI for various screens (login, match creation, joining a game)

New York, New York, Us

• Unity3D and HTML5/Javascript/WebGL development.• Created a standalone game and interactive webpage that communicated with each other using proprietary interactive-streaming technology provided by Genvid.• Created documentation on how to use the sample to be used as a tutorial for new developers.

• Unity3D development (C#/Windows/Mac/Linux).• Conception and development of CHKN, an open-world sandbox game on PC released on Steam.• Vision holder and direction of product, including game design, UI/UX, sound design, and visual direction.• Code architecture and creation of key game systems (multiplayer, AI, world streaming and generation, gameplay, rendering, UGC, balance tuning).• Responsible for product strategy. Management of scope and priorities, management of team and contracted developers. Responsible for sprints and milestones. • Interviewed candidates for technical positions.

I was the drummer for The Hsu-nami, a progressive rock band that explored combining western music with eastern by featured an amplified er-hu as the lead instrument. The band had success touring different countries, was featured on MTV, and opened for national acts. In 2008 the band's song "Rising of the Sun" was featured in the Summer Olympic in Beijing.

• Unity3D development on multiple platforms (C#/mobile/web/desktop).• Built a customizable learning system prototype which allowed kids to build games and apps. The prototype was successfully used to pitch the company for funding.• Developed a custom visual logic based behavior-based system to apply actions and reactions to customizable objects.• Managed remote contracted programmers on work with the client program.• Setup automated continuous integration with Jenkins.

• Maintained and enhanced the iOS app Punch: The Culture Shelf. The Culture Shelf was a next generation magazine. It featured the instantaneous speed of updating content like the web and the user experience of a native app. • Maintained, enhanced, and deployed the backend CMS (Linux/PHP/MySQL/Drupal).• Added push notification support to the app. (Linux/PHP/Objective-C).• Maintained the company website (HTML5, Javascript).• Managed 3rd party consultant company.• Abstracted proprietary iOS technology to an API that was used by various white-label clients.

• iOS native development (Objective-C).• Deployed over 30 iOS applications to the App Store.• Developed in-app purchase module to allow purchasing and viewing sheet music.• Developed a guitar chord previewer that allowed users to preview the notes and strum each string’s note using MIDI.• Developed a music theory app that taught notes, scales, rhythm through interactive gameplay (play along to a metronome, play a scale in key on a keyboard, identify notes on a scale).• Used Objective C code specific to iOS devices, including the following APIs: CoreGraphics, CoreAudio, CoreVideo, AVFoundation, CoreData, CoreAnimation, CoreLocation, StoreKit, and GameCenter. • Efficiently managed and guided junior team members and communicated with the rest of the team including designers and backend developers located both locally and remotely.

• Created a prototype mobile app to help fight parking tickets. iOS native development (Objective-C).• Created tools to automatically collect data from various sources to help fight parking tickets. (MSSQL)• Created web services to allow clients to integrate closely with in-house parking ticket dismissal tech (SOAP)• Implemented new features on the web site. (HTML5/Javascript/AJAX/JQuery/C#/ASP.NET).• Created a desktop application used by an in-house data center to organize and fight high volumes of parking tickets for various clients. Application development (VB.NET/C#).