Liron Morgner Email & Phone Number

As so many developers I started writing software for fun, inspired by early computer games. As so often, those early plans don't quite work out. Whilst contracting early in my carrier, I needed to print a series of busines forms. So I took up JFreeReport and got drawn into the world of print layout and data processing algorithms. An mere 18 year later I finally stopped to develop reporting and Business Intelligence software, leaving behind JFreeReport, now known as Pentaho Reporting, which was now part of Hitachi's growing Business Analytics software.The desire to build worlds never left me, it just temporarily got drowned in a data lake. Data lakes turned out to be data swamps in reality. Dumping data into storage creates a mess without some semantic layer to describe that data. While tinkering with such meta data systems, I realized: I'm building a way to describe a world. A world filled with customer data, accountancy rules, regulatatory concerns and lawyers. We got the sea of data, the sharks of the law, but no pirates or dragons. Any good world building needs dragons.I know how to create enterprise products from scratch. I can engage with customers, collect requirements and balance those with the needs of the business to grow and sell a successful product. I worked with pre-sales, product management, and our customer support to shape our reporting product. The reporting system thus created was built to last, required minimal maintenance, was friendly to support, and performed well accross the years. It just isn't building worlds.Over the last years I worked on games, and thus realizing how little I knew. In modern games, if your hero is lacking training, go back to the grind. Thus I went to study VR and Game Design to gain the skills I need to finally start building. Armed with the sacred knowledge of VR, game systems and player psychology (and more mundane arts like 3D modelling, UX and how to develop for VR) I am now ready to create worlds once again.