Mark Lomas Email & Phone Number

Manchester, England, Gb

Manchester, England, Gb

United Kingdom

I'm the Lead Architect for BBC R&D's Future Experience Technology section exploring the opportunities within the convergence of the broadcasting and games industries. I'm responsible for technical coordination across a range of research projects, specialising in software design and high-performance computing and I'm currently leading a research project investigating the broadcast of fine-grained object-based media and real-time CGI at scale.I was an investigator and the technical project leader on 2-IMMERSE, a 3 year H2020 funded innovation project where I contributed to technical architecture, solutions on bandwidth orchestration and software stacks for diverse device platforms, working closely with industry partners from across Europe.I'm also the BBC's work stream technical coordinator and the BBC's technical lead for intelligent network compute on the AI4ME project; a 5 year joint academic and industrial partnership, using artificial intelligence to personalise and adapt content to individual users’ interests, devices, location and accessibility requirements.I'm project lead on Render Engine Broadcast, a research project investigating how to provide universal access to flexible media that's authored once and delivered in many forms, harnessing WebAssembly to exploit heterogeneous compute at scale on hybrid device/edge/cloud infrastructure.

Runcorn

I worked with a team of engineers to deliver DriveClub, a next generation racer featuring the world's top super-cars, cutting-edge graphics and social connectivity (www.driveclub.com).I was responsible for the development of core PlayStation 4 engine technology and the vision behind the studio's Development Kit. I directed the development of the game's physical-based rendering and designed the iterative development workflow for artists, designers and programmers.I developed a new approach to meta-game development which underpinned our social and connected experiences, scoped UX technology, rapid game scripting and micro patching.I delivered the game's task-based parallelism solution and migrated Intel Threading Building Blocks and Intel ISPC to the Sony Playstation4 platform which I also made technical contributions to.

Runcorn, United Kingdom

I was responsible for all aspects of technology and ensured the viability and maintainability of each product. This involved managerial responsibilities, strategic decision making, software design, prioritisation and planning.I worked on several next generation projects, striving for visual realism.I successfully delivered Motorstorm: Pacific Rift and Motorstorm: Apocalypse (which was on time, under budget and a considerable step-forward technologically).

Runcorn, United Kingdom

I delivered Motorstorm as a Launch title for PlayStation 3, establishing team working practices, programming standards, project structure and multi-platform tools and technology. I also delivered PAL/NTSC versions of WRC5: Rally Evolved, WRC4, WRC3 and WRC2 Extreme. Responsibilities included tools, production process, animation, rendering, character simulation and game technology.I authored a physics destruction system that contributed to the development of the Havok Destruction middle-ware.I also led a small R&D team prototyping next generation 3D graphics techniques and tools for Xbox.

Warrington, United Kingdom

I worked on engine development for Eurofighter Typhoon, eRacer, Rage Rally and early XBox hardware. Responsibilities included game team support, ensuring graphics hardware compatibility, performance/scalability, low-level programming and R&D.

Warrington, United Kingdom

I delivered Wargasm and F22 Air Dominance Fighter and developed Warrior Tank gunnery training software for student artillery soldiers. Undertook research into volumetric cloud simulation and high performance font rendering. As a member of the Infogrames’ international board of core technology representatives, I worked with Melbourne, Lyon and Sheffield studios to consolidate and share technical assets.