Kevin Doolan Email & Phone Number

The original founder, established the core technology and direction for the company, brought on Aidan Doolan and together we proved we could design, build and market critically and commercially successful products on the App Store. Then joined by Barry O'Neill and the three of us scaled the business by assembling an amazing team, producing amazing work.Designed and created UtopiaGL and UTBuild, our in-house middleware and build system, through three major releases over an eight year period. UtopiaGL is a mobile-focused, highly optimized cross-platform 3D game engine that shielded developers from low level details (e.g. devs didn't need any knowledge of OpenGL, only a superficial awareness of performance issues) and allowed them to focus on game logic exclusively.Co-designed and implemented several mini-engines with Aidan Doolan, built on top of my UtopiaGL engine, including the Soft Paper Book engine (world's first fully 3D simulation of an old classic book, including folding pop-ups) and Card Book engine (world's first fully 3D simulation of a traditional children's card book, complete with folding pop-ups.) Basic hooks were provided to allow each app built using the above engines to provide just the logic for pop-up scenes. This reduced the expertise-level required to produce high quality apps.Co-created the following award-winning apps with Aidan Doolan (all built using Utopia and the Soft Paper book engine):• 3D Bookshelf (aka 3D Classic Literature Collection)• Grimms Rumpelstiltskin• Grimms Rapunzel• Grimms Red Riding Hood• Grimms Hansel and Gretel • Grimms BookshelfWorked on several other apps in various capacities. See videos & production notes below for some examples.Established the Coding Standard and SCM Development Practices for the company.Scaled the engineering department.Performed code reviews and provided support and guidance on all apps built using Utopia.Executed, documented and tracked research and development activities.

While at Upstart I ported several J2ME games to BREW (Frogger, Castlevania, Silent Scope among others), developed the BREW component of USCL v1, our internal porting middleware, and designed and implemented USCL2. USCL2 allowed rapid porting of J2ME projects to BREW by reproducing the J2ME environment (Garbage Collection etc) and API in C++. This allowed the J2ME code to be recompiled as C++ BREW code with only very minor modifications.I also helped create graphics for some of the games developed in-house, e.g. 'Stealth' for Sony Pictures.

I co-founded Rua2 Technology with Aidan Doolan. We developed 3D middleware for games and e-learning projects.Our engine, 'Continuum', was capable of BSP / Portal / Terrain / Track rendering using per-pixel projected lighting / normal mapping, skeletal animation and vehicle physics, real-time world editing directly in the App (brush based CSG / BSP, curve based race track generation etc). Our tool chain included mesh decimation (normal map capture), exporters, and geometry optimizers (vcache guided stripification).

I wrote a 3D engine (Sub-pixel accurate software rasterizer, hardware support via D3D) which I licensed to Smartforce and worked in-house customizing it for the Angel Research and Development project. Also designed a novel user interface for performing tasks in a simulated 3D environment which became a defining part of the Angel project.The project earned Smartforce a Computerworld Smithsonian award nomination (based on a recommendation from Craig Barrett, then CEO of Intel), and a description of the project is on permanent display at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, representing the state of the art in real-time 3D web based e-learning at the turn of the millennium.

Co-founded with Aidan Doolan and Dave Byrne. We produced two games, Impact SL9 and Crazy Drake (published internationally by eGames). I was responsible for character animation and presentation graphics on both games.

I was an assistant animator on the PC Game, Litil Divil. I used Deluxe Paint Animation on PC to create graphics and animation used in the game.