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Austin, TX, US

Phoenix, Arizona, US

Austin, TX, US

Austin, TX, US

Bryan, Texas, US

• Educational gaming startup creating game-based learning targeted at higher ed. students with over $9M in funding. Chief Technology Officer Executive accountable and responsible for all technology efforts in software.
• Performance Goal – Enable Variant: Limits to run in 33ms/f on target hardware. (Achieved)
• Infrastructure Goal – Build an IT infrastructure to support and scale with the company. (Achieved)
• QA Goal – Leverage external QA to ensure quality gaming experience and utilize 24 hr day. (Achieved)
• Localization Goal – Port Variant: Limits to Simplified Chinese. (Achieved)
• Scalability Goal - Allow AWS resources to scale up and down based on user demand. (Partially Achieved)

Nicosia, CY

• Member of Central Technology Group, reporting to tech director, providing tactical support to game teams globally.Senior Software EngineerLed and developed one engineer.
• Integrated Wwise into two game engines for two different studios.
• Integrated rendering engine built in Eastern Europe into studios’ game engine.

Redwood City, CA, US

• Part of EA Sports as a graphics engineer reporting to Franchise Development Director and Technical Director. Shipped Madden 25 and 15 on XBox One and PS4 with a graphics team of 12 people and a game team of over.
• Elevated to lead in 6 months and was given two engineers while mentoring junior engineers.
• Created a test plan and implemented a process for visual stability to measure and report back to leadership daily.
• Reviewed and enforced coding standards and policies via code reviews and verbal communication as needed.
• Worked with leads and management to plan features and estimate scope for Madden 25.

• Texas based start-up building a cutting-edge rifle scope with advanced optical capabilities employing ~40 people.Senior Design EngineerReported to Director of Software Engineering and responsible for support and.
• Built cross platform 2D & 3D forward renderer (Linux (Arm/DaVinci processor) and Win(Intel/ATI/NVidia)).
• Built networking support into the UI (Qt) of LFS renderer allowing control of the renderer over TCP/IP.

Las Vegas, NV, US

• Chicago based manufacturer of slot machines with software development all over the world and 1500 employees.Senior Principal Engineer III Reported to Director of Software Engineering and responsible for support of 3D.
• Led teams of 4 engineers creating visual finite state machine editing tool with scripting support.
• Mentored entry level engineer to enhance performance resulting in their promotion & added responsibility

US

• Game publisher in Chicago known for quality games and sports titles.Software Engineer/Graphics Lead - StrangleholdLed one engineer to ensure deliverable dates were met. Collaborated with artist to for graphics features.
• Added support for limited lit transparency, ATI’s hair technique, and Zip-Lines (tiled static meshes).

US

Designed and implemented physics system for Wrestlemania 21 (Xbox title). Contributed to graphics engine, game tool, networking code, and create-a-superstar systems.

Santa Clara, California, US

I worked on two teams while at ATI:3D Application Research Group: Researched and wrote innovative applications that would demonstrate new techniques and/or features in our hardware as well as publish and give talks where possible.Demos include cloth simulation (cpu and gpu), 4-matrix gpu skinning, and video effects using shaders.Set Top Box Group:Charged.

Allentown, Pennsylvania, US

Ms, Computer Science

B.S., Computer Science & Math