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Sheffield, Gb

Sheffield, Gb

Rotherham, England, Gb

Brighton & Hove, East Sussex, Gb

As lead programmer on Ikaro my responsibilities included:- Building and managing the programming team.- Maintaining the game codebase and project structure.- Owning and developing multiple gameplay features- Managing jenkins build pipelines for multiple platforms including PC, Switch, Xbox and Playstation.- Writing technical documentation and task breakdowns- Ensuring cross team collaboration between the programming, art and design teams.In addition to my standard lead duties, I was responsible for production related tasks including managing risk logs, defining milestones, planning project timelines and scoping technical tasks.

Royal Leamington Spa, England, Gb

As a principal programmer at Pixel Toys I was responsible for maintaining the highest coding standards across the entire codebase whilst line managing and mentoring other members of the team. In addition to contributing to development of new tools and pipelines I also maintained up to date documentation, investigated new technologies/methodologies for development, and worked alongside other senior members of the company to help ensure the games made were robust, efficient, and fun.

Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Gb

As lead serious games developer within CENTRIC (Centre of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence and Organised Crime Research) I was responsible for managing a team working on multiple concurrent research and development projects for a wide range of stakeholders including United Nations Organisations, the European Commission, and Europol. Whilst ensuring project deliverables and targets were met, I was responsible for securing funding and disseminating CENTRIC’s serious games research outputs

Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Gb

I worked on the AUGGMED program as a serious games developer working with virtual and mixed reality solutions to remote, multi-agency training scenarios. Some of my responsibilities included developing virtual reality user interfaces and researching VR interaction methods.

Whilst at games faction I was employed as a Junior Programmer working on the company's mobile games Storm the Train and the recently released Rally Run. As this was a small team my role was varied and included building back-end systems, game balance AI, audio systems and developing in house analytics systems.

Barnsley, South Yorkshire, Gb

A Customer facing role where i'm responsible for harnessing, safety checks, event setup/event pack up and van driving to numerous bungee locations throughout the UK providing 160ft, 300ft and 400ft Bungee Jumps.

Greenwich, London, Gb

I was employed as a Technical Manager at the University of Greenwich creating training games for social care professionals.This role required me to create and manage all the content used within the games. From the 3D Models and Textures to the scripts and environments themselves. In this role I was constantly using 3DS Max, Photoshop, Unity, Javascript and Mudbox.

Greenwich, London, Gb

This was a casual employment creating low polygon 3D assets, Characters and Animations for an educational game.

London, Gb

Summer contract performing Security, Customer Services, Crowd Management and responding to customer enquiries.

Postgraduate Certificate, Adult And Continuing Education And Teaching

Msc Games Software Development, Computer Programming

Bcs Hons, Computing With Games Development

Bachelor Of Technology (Btech), Information Technology