Kirk Black Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, CA, US

I oversee the product design, architecture, development and operations of the Forte Platform, a comprehensive cryptocurrency economy and financial exchange service platform for game developers.I am leading 100+ developers distributed in teams all around the world including the US, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, New Zealand, Finland, UK, Hungary and Malta. The.

Osaka, JP

I was the Tech Leader, Strategist, Architect and Team Builder for TURBO Studios, a mobile F2P eSports game company started with major investments from Softbank, Nexon, McKinsey and GungHo as our publisher.My expert contribution focused on client/server/content architecture, server authoritative content systems implementation, development and process.

Victoria, British Columbia, CA

Led a very talented team with the development of TOME, a MOBA intended for Facebook and eventually mobile release.

Los Angeles, CA, US

Managed and built up the Game Engineering team from 8 engineers to 40 engineers with regularly scheduled 1:1s and three week development sprints. Eight of my engineers (six of whom I hired during my tenure) won the coveted Riot Culture Award, the most of any department within the organization.Converted and trained all development departments (Art, Design.

Needham, Massachusetts, US

Led the successful conversion of DDO and LOTRO MMOs from subscription-only to F2P (free to play with microtransactions) which is considered the first major commercial western game property to do so successfully at scale. Increased player acquisition, retention and engagement by 10x and revenue by 500% as a result.

Family Time! Interactive® was my personal venture created to develop the MMO service, Family Time! Adventures®. Family Time! Adventures® was a non-violent, cooperative Internet game designed for the whole family. I architected and created a full featured, scalable server platform with fun sample content generated by the creative team I assembled. The game.

San Diego, CA, US

Helped launch Star Wars Galaxies working as senior programmer then became Lead Designer shortly after launch and managed up to 18 game designers.

Bellevue, WA, US

One of the original designers for the first iteration of Tabula Rasa.

Redwood City, CA, US

Worked at the Origin Systems studio on Ultima Online which is considered to be the first mainstream successful MMO. Expanded Ultima Online into Japan, Europe, Korea, China and Australia and grew it to 242K subscribers.

After spending all my free evenings for months learning C++ and game programming after coming home from working on COBOL mainframe programs, I finally managed to get hired at a game company. I was one of three game programmers that developed and released four CDROM-based children's edutainment games written in C++:1. Hansel and Gretel and the Enchanted.

Naperville, IL, US

Implemented UNETY’s first interactive websites using Perl CGI scripts on BSD and Windows.Trained the staff in website and CGI web development.

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Programmed Unitech's COBOL products on the IBM360/MVS Mainframes and PC platform.Trained new programmers and supported remote sales offices in Canada, London, Australia.

Charleston, IL, US

Chemistry Researcher in the laboratory of Dr. Mark McGuire synthesizing new chemical compound, [(bpy)2RuII(pptd)](PF6)2.Published (first author, cited 24x): Journal of Inorganic Chemistry