Michael Dougherty Email & Phone Number

Redmond, Washington, Us

Leading an excellent team who work on Xbox graphics. Including drivers, performance tooling, and research.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Microsoft's "High Level Shading Language" is the industry standard for GPU programming. My team works with hardware partners and game developers to design new features and improve the language.

Redmond, Washington, Us

PIX is a graphics performance tool used by the industry to optimize and debug graphics heavy applications. As the development lead I was responsible for product direction, feature development, and addressing customer (primarily AAA game developer) feedback.

Redmond, Washington, Us

As a graphics developer on the Xbox graphics driver team, I was responsible for implementing features in the graphics driver, fixing bugs, and performance optimizations.

Redmond, Washington, Us

My primary responsibility in this role was development of the Xbox One product specification. This included working with a team to define overall product features, completing usability and technical prototypes, completing technical feasibility studies, and optimizing product costs.

Redmond, Washington, Us

As the Xbox graphics program manager, I handled feature definition and development, costing, scheduling, and the release process for the Xbox graphics team.

Redmond, Washington, Us

At the “Advanced Technology Group” my primary role was to work with game developers on new features and system performance.

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At Sierra, I updated a software rendering engine to use hardware acceleration and worked on new 3D art asset tooling for more advanced 3d models and animations.

At Super X studios I was responsible for developing game physics and multiplayer networking.