At ICT I have driven the growth of existing learning-science projects from pure research prototypes to viable products, open sourcing projects wherever possible. Within the context of these projects, I have pushed changes in ICT's approach to software dev, project management, and product development that have had a positive, transformative impact on the organization far beyond my own project groups. - Instituted AGILE process and refocused core learning-app project from windows-tablet unity3d prototypes to learner-focused mobile app on iOS and Android, resulting in sponsor's renewal of grants and greenlight of project to real-world deployment - Drove the conversion of projects from desktop prototypes to open-source web apps, leading to greatly expanded grants for all of the above. - Improved software quality and mentoring practices via introduction of git pull-request/code review process - Made research-prototype projects viable as products by switching approach from installed unity3d windows apps, to mobile-first web apps on modern frameworks (react, node/express, flask, etc.) - Addressed longstanding code-maintainability issues with introduction of behavior-driven dev approaches using mocha, jest, pytest, and cypress (including visual-regression testing) - Achieved app-version repeatability by introducing microservice-based software designs on docker and + container orchestration on AWS - Improved repeatability by introduction of continuous-integration with tests that also cover style, security and linting and staged deployments triggered by tagging - Increased app scalability by leading migration from internal hosting to AWS - Improved organizational cooperation by spearheading a transition to Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and including sysadmins in the process

Built a company, tech stack, process and team that has grown over the years (now over 100 strong) and churned out many successful games.NOTABLE TITLESPanda Pop - a top 30 free-to-play game on iOS and Android that has had hundreds of millions of playershttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/bubble-shooter-panda-pop/id700970012Adventures of Pip - an original side-scrolling platformer with a unique story and mechanichttps://store.steampowered.com/app/303550/Adventures_of_Pip/Never Alone - Editor's-Choice-winning mobile port of a gorgeous console game that was made in collaboration with the Iñupiat nation to teach their mythologyhttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/never-alone-ki-edition/id1065127755NOTABLE PARTNERSDisney, Lucas Arts, Sony, Mattel

Drove development of large scale kids' virtual worlds Nicktropolis, PetPet Park and MonkeyQuest.Led transition to Agile process, Acceptance-Test/Behaviour Driven Dev, and continuous-integration pipeline to the Neopets studio that was the basis for the Nick Virtual Worlds group.Tech and tools included: Unity3D, Smartfox Server, Java w Spring MVC, MySQL, Flash, Jenkins (Hudson at the time), Maven, svn, Jira

After leading technical development of MTV Networks first internally developed multiplayer game (Nickflips) in 2003, I was brought on to the Nicktropolis project as lead architect.Architected a scalable real-time platform for virtual worlds development. Created content management solutions that have enabled the Nicktropolis to be extended with new areas and experiences for years after launch with minimal ongoing software development. Led the retrofitting existing nickelodeon content management and community platforms as the basis for the Nicktropolis platform. This design decision made the project cheaper, shorter, less risky, and added significant value by allowing Nicktropolis to integrate fully with the broader nick.com universe. In earlier years at MTV, helped to architect critical platform systems including caching, user account management, virtual items and trading, user profiles, and content management.