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Livermore, CA, US

Reno, NV, US

• Develop and maintain Endava Games' technology roadmap, vision, and strategy
• Drive organizational strategy for technology, such as the split between game business unit teams, shared technology, and commercialization into licensable products
• Build, maintain, and evolve Endava Games inspiring technology vision.

Little River, California, US

Consultancy, advice, sanity-checking, business & commercial development for the video-games industry.

Pleasant Hill, CA, US

Leadership and strategy to drive product vision and manage teams.Deep technical knowledge paired with a customer-focused mindset.Experience with developer platforms and understanding of the software development lifecycle.Strategic thinking to connect customer use cases to technology solutions.Problem-solving skills to tackle technical and strategic.

Green Bay, Wisconsin, US

Providing professional expertise, advocacy and industry insider support for the business.

Bellevue, WA, US

• Providing strategic advice regarding the Company’s business and operations;
• Facilitating introductions to potential strategic partners, investors, and clients/customers;
• Mentoring executive team
• Participating in hiring key personnel

San Ramon, CA, US

- Overseeing the long-term direction regarding technology development and operations for the studio- Implementing standards to improve technical team’s costs and operations as effectively as possible.- Owning the future vision, current engineering processes and technical standards for the studio across multiple technology domains including platform, game.

Novato, California, US

Partnered directly with leadership teams across publishing and studios, helping them define and implement technology strategies required to deliver top quality games. In this period this resulted in 26 products on 8 platforms across 12 studios contributing to over $1.7B in sales. - Identified the tools and processes required across multiple projects and.

Novato, California, US

Restructured the Core Technology department to improve product quality across the 2k portfolio by building a team of high quality individual contributors that advised and directed 2K studios technical investment. In this period 2k products delivered average 80+ metacritic across multiple franchises and platforms. Defined the technical milestone.

Seoul, KR

Providing creative direction, production validation, and games industry insights.

San Francisco, California, US

Brought my experience in partner relations to improve Zynga's failing relationship with their primary platform partner. This newly formed publishing role was multifaceted covering operational as well as strategic management of the account. In this period I was responsible for planning the release of all Zynga’s games on iOS and Mac App stores I championed.

San Francisco, CA, US

Directed the investment in new games platform technology across Lucasarts and Lucasfilm from provisioning early development hardware to building frameworks for the creation of products. Created an online services technology plan for adoption in all future Lucasarts products that shared progress across multiple titles. This system also powered websites such.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Utilized my extensive product knowledge to direct all of Lucasarts externally developed titles. Brought a deep technical knowledge across all game development platforms and the ability to work well with different.
• Advise the company as a whole on issues concerning general project status and strategy for technology investment
• Provide hands-on programming expertise for the purposes of profiling code performance, reviewing code at the developer, building and approving project archives, etc.
• Assess areas of technical risk affecting product quality and timeliness.
• Provide insight into the feasibility of engineering team schedules and provide workable solutions, as appropriate

Paris, FR

• Managed all technical direction for both internal and external development for the Sierra label in Europe, including 2 internal studios and 8 external products. Developed a relationship with all 1st Parties and.
• Positively influence the quality of developed product, by providing technical oversight to projects in development
• Evaluate developer capabilities and competency, project proposals and development plans, milestone schedules and technical specifications.
• Assist in building proposals for new business opportunities, product proposals, and development relationships

San Mateo, California, US

• Handled publishing accounts with European internal development studios such as Sega, Eidos, Codemasters, THQ and Rockstar. Managed over 200 independent developers and middleware companies across all Sony platforms.
• Focused on delivering external development on PlayStation platforms.
• Product evangelism of PlayStation family as the development platform of choice..
• Contribute to change management of Third Party Relations in line with changing business strategies. Align software product development to meet these goals.
• Advisory role to VP, Publisher and Developer Relations to meet demands in the community.

- Organized deliverables for a large programming team and managed tasks across multiple platforms- Provided technical guidance in product status meetings- Influenced direction of libraries and general programming standards.

- Designed and implemented a Resource Management System, game mission compiler and in-game model compilation tools be used across all products.- Responsible for all artificial intelligence programming on the project "Star Trek: New Worlds"

Paterson, NSW, AU

- Contributed to defining departmental budget requirements and the role of software engineering within the development process.- Conducted approval and technical guidance for external project teams.- Lead Engineer and Lead Producer role on the game "Citizens"- Ported PC titles to Amiga ( Gunship 2000 and F117A Stealth Fighter) using a newly created library.

- Completed firmware for 68000 based interface card to test systems on the Eurofighter- Engineering support roles on Orion Bus tester software- Windows front end for European fighter aircraft bus tester in ‘C’ and PASCAL

Worked on mission planning system using ‘C’ on a Sun Sparc station to produce weather display modules and 3D representation of 2D data

- Training in product testing, test engineering and quality assurance- Specialized in applications software engineering and wrote test programs using automatic test equipment application languages

Post Graduate Diploma, Software Project Management

Onc And Hnc, Electronic Engineering

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