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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 challenges.

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 technology, data, and infrastructure. - Supporting the needs of game and product teams at a technical level, and translating those needs into capabilities and practices that empower efficient and cost-effective delivery and operations of products for players.

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 studios delivering a workbench of products and pipelines used across multiple million dollar franchises - Improved the analysis of technical design through milestone procedures influencing and approving overall technology investment. - Identified advances in technology and proposed new innovations that will benefit 2k Products now and in the future, including new platform technology and other emerging software development innovations.- Drove 2K technology and middleware contracts resulting in million dollar savings across the label.- Built a core technology team to create evolving infrastructure to be used across games and platforms resulting in a successful D2C platform and a backend service supporting multiple client platforms

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 deliverables for 2k products providing consistent deliverables across internal and external studios. This included creating the technical due diligence template used to sign new studios to the label. Work with studios throughout the product lifecycle to ensure effective progress on all technical aspects of development- Direct a team of senior technology specialists- Manage scheduling and production on Core Tech software development projects.- Plan tactical responses to shifts in the technical landscape- Perform technical due diligence for tactical business opportunities- Coordinate the technical aspects of relationships with partners such as console first parties, hardware & software vendors

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 Apple key initiatives at Zynga including game controller support , cross platform play and toys to life with great success measured by multiple high level app store features and accolades.- Responsible for the overall partner relationship, including: strategic planning, revenue growth targets and all operations necessary to profitably retain, grow and service the customer.- Managed all product launches and updates for the company on Apple Platforms.- Improved communication of Apple opportunities and needs across Production, Operations and Marketing teams.- Achieved 9 App Store Featured titles driving the highest install rate on iOS and Mac in Zynga's history. - Delivered on the first app store best of year on both Mac and iPhone in the same week.

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 as starwars.com and lucasarts.com with a shared identity and profile.- Develop and champion technical strategy for platform usage across multiple teams and titles- Communicate and report on industry trends, including creating an industry roadmap- Primary technical contact for first party, vendors, and partners - Responsible for strategic technology investment in platforms, copy protection, anti-piracy measures, digital distribution and middleware licensing.- Built consistent procedures and a common decision making strategy in product development at a corporate level. - Built proposals for new business opportunities, product designs, and development relationships.

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 external teams to deliver quality results. Expert consultant for Lucasfilm in areas such as cloud computing, online community integration and multi-platform services. Provided developer assessment across multiple products for acquisition. • 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 middleware providers including a position on the PS3 Advisory panel to further improve developer support from Sony.• 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 giving me a vast insight into different game production processes across all studios.Presented at IDGA chapters and local business development meetings to encourage Playstation development in new regions. Awarded special recognition by the president of SCE in a ceremony in Tokyo for my work in bringing independent developers to the PS3 platform.• 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 for porting PC titles from Microprose USA.- Completed Research and development new 3D engine and PC libraryTitles Shipped in this period - Gunship 2000 (Amiga), F117A (Amiga), Citizens (PC)

- 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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