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● Led the design and development of the next-generation globalized product platform● Reduced costs by transitioning to shared components used by multiple products● Simplified integrations by introducing a single REST API across multiple products● Designed Azure-based document delivery system and customer portal● Successfully transitioned to an agile development process ● Designed and developed distributed build system

Became the lead for the team working on enterprise document delivery software● Improved customer experience by automating the delivery of software updates● Improved quality and reduced manual QA by requiring unit tests for all new code● Increased productivity by pushing all new development work to C#

Successfully transitioned to corporate environment working on enterprise-scale software consisting of a large (multi-million line) legacy code base. Developed new modules to add features and reworked existing modules to improve code quality.

Tucson, Arizona Area

Changed focus from work-for-hire software development to self-publishing. Led a small development team and released several products over the course of a few years before pulling the plug as the industry moved to ever larger teams and budgets. Gained an invaluable education in several areas including angel investors (look for more than money), build-vs-buy (short term gain vs long term pain), creative freedom (wonderfully expensive), trying to build your own distribution (don't), and direct online sales (briefly awesome).

Tucson, Arizona Area

Relocated company to Tucson, AZ and grew to about 25 people. Managed multiple project teams; responsible for meeting evolving requirements and delivering on time to meet contract milestones.● Designed and developed tool suites enabling programmers, artists and musicians to more quickly prototype and develop across multiple systems● Designed and programmed core architecture, object framework, and scripting language for custom game engine● Designed server and network architecture for massively multiplayer online game

Greater New York City Area

Started software development company and grew to a small team doing work for clients including Sesame Street, Activision, Disney and Warner Bros.

New York City

Created several original computer and video games, including the hit “Spy vs Spy”