Ken George Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington

* Shipped product: [_The Technician_](https://store.steampowered.com/app/839960/The_Technician/) - a VR action puzzler, released to Early Access on December 10th, 2018.* Solo project; performed all concepting, design, requirements, development, marketing, and release from start to finish.* Self taught new tools and techniques across disciplines to handle gameplay, level design, audio, modeling, and art production.* Created tools to manage workload for solo development, including Git LFS deployment utility for binary asset source control and in-game editor for rapid design iteration as well as for player use.

Greater Seattle Area

Software engineer in the Kindle Offline Retail organization.* Part of a small ~6 person team that designed, developed, and deployed the Amazon Source website (https://source.amazon.com) before everyone realized that they did not want the Amazon Source website.* Developed in-store demonstration software for a variety of Amazon Kindle devices.* Completely annihilated and redesigned a horrible in-store demonstration software system.* Assisted other short-handed device teams in completing tasks necessary for a critical launch date for a major project (this is a nice way of saying "I fought fires for 6 months").

Orlando, Florida Area

* Responsible for designing and implementing a complete overhaul/replacement of existing core technologies and “portal” application for Raytheon Technical Services Corporartion in support of a 10-year, $11 billion national defense contract.* Designed and oversaw implementation of a RESTful web service architecture to serve as the foundation of development for all future software projects on the contract, as well as future contracts.* Designed and created a JavaScript front end application for the core RESTful web services.* Employed numerous modern technologies, such as: Dust client-side templates, LessCSS, jQuery, and Backbone.js.

Orlando, Florida Area

* Solely responsible for the design, creation, testing, deployment, and maintenance of several program critical web applications used both domestically and overseas in support of a 10-year, $11 billion national defense contract (for which several people must have severely overpaid).* Developed in HTML/CSS/Javascript as well as ASP.NET/C# and PHP.Applications included:* Supplier rating system used to track performance of major program subcontractors.* Reporting tool for program management to submit required daily reports to program director.* Tool for loading bulk location and asset data into Maximo asset management database.* Forecasting system used by program subcontractors to plan contract spending and report critical financial data to program management.

* Part of a 3-man development team creating a web-based application and highly secured military staffing database used to manage billions of dollars of defense contract proposals, bidding, and spending.* Programmed primarily in ASP.NET/C#.* Used LINQ-to-SQL and LINQ-to-Entities Dynamic Data frameworks with a SQL Server 2005 database.* Created and maintained a Subversion source control management server for the development team.

Responsible for design, development, and testing of a 2d facial recognition access control system.Programmed in C# under Visual Studio 2008 and worked with hardware interface SDKs in C++.Created socket-based network communications between application server and TCP/IP camera endpoints.Directed design and implementation of a MySQL database back-end.

Designed, developed, and tested a 2d facial recognition surveillance system.Programmed in C# under Visual Studio 2005 and worked with hardware interface SDKs in C++.Directed design and implementation of a MySQL database back-end.