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Seattle, WA, US

Seattle, WA, US

Building 3D affordably and at scale to fuel the MetaverseCurie is backed by 500 Startups (B25), The Brandery/Gener8tor, and NVIDIA Inception.Imagine if you arrived at a furniture store only to find pictures instead of products on display. That’s what shopping online is like today. 3D replicates a live product experience, but retailers aren't setup like.

Austin, Texas, US

• GameSalad is funded by Disney's Steamboat Ventures and develops a visual tool for game designers and consumers to make 2D animation and artificial intelligence with no programming required.
• Co-founded the company in 2007 and served first as CEO, Architect, and then Chief Product Officer
• Fundraised from venture capital (VC) and managed communication/reporting between multiple business stakeholders
• Hired, mentored, lead, and collaborated with cross-functional teams, consisting of product, design, marketing, and engineering; Grew from 3 to 50 people
• Developed vision, business plans, business cases, product roadmap, presentations, business requirements based on customer needs & other data sources, user stories, wireframes, design style-guides, and customer-facing.
• Managed & evaluated external monetization partners, vendors, and alliances

Austin, TX, US

• UTx was established in 2012 by the University of Texas Board of Regents and endowed with $50 million to make education more accessible and affordable, as well as, to improve outcomes.
• Initiated partnerships with startup accelerators to build a education-focused incubator in Austin
• Researched problems in higher-education and outlined business plans for potential VC-fundable spinouts to solve issues globally
• Budgeted and recruited engineers for an internal Skunkworks-style development team

• Weaver mixes chat and automatic, on-the-fly comic book illustration as a fun and instant way for friends and family to express visual stories over mobile and wearables.
• Co-founded the company in 2013 and served as CEO and Product Lead
• Hired, lead, and collaborated with a cross-functional team, consisting of design and engineering to develop Apps for the Apple Watch, iOS, and Android

Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur, MY

• MaGIC Accelerator is a program to accelerate 50 startups to be investment-ready in 4 months and to build a strong ASEAN startup community. Launched by President Barack Obama and the Malaysian government, MaGIC was.
• Consulted & mentored 100 entrepreneurs at Southeast Asia's largest accelerator
• Collaborated with local leaders on ways to build a "Silicon Valley" in emerging markets
• Held design thinking workshops & developed engineering curriculum at startup hubs in SEA

Acquired by Unity 3D

Los Angeles, California, US

Acquired by Blue Bottle

New York City, New York, US

Austin, TX, US

• Helped design the curriculum for a project-based course, teaching students the fundamentals of game design and production.
• Worked with the City of Austin, the Digital Media Council, and local industry to develop the program.

Lisle, Illinois, US

• Taught the Game Design course at the Austin campus.

Pittsburgh, PA, US

The Entertainment Technology Center is an interdisciplinary, projects-based Masters program offered at Carnegie Mellon University, whose focus is to train graduate students for competitive and highly technical positions in the entertainment industries such as game development, movies, and location-based entertainment. Involved in the following.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Acquired by SEGA, Three Rings Design was the first company in America to introduce the free-to-play business model.
• Designed and programmed gameplay and artificial intelligence for "Bang! Howdy," an online multi-user strategy game that is a cross between speed chess and Starcraft
• Managed a cross-discipline team across a matrix organization to generate media and provide additional development

Cupertino, California, US

• Apple's Platform Experience team designed and developed user interfaces for MacOS X and toolkits for 3rd party developers
• Wrote an interoperability layer between Carbon and Cocoa utilized by Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite
• Implemented user interface components for Carbon used by external developers and within Finder and iTunes

Austin, TX, US

• Designed & taught a Continuing Education class using Python for non-CS students.

• Edge of Reality was an independent console games developer for Electronic Arts, Activision, and Midway
• Wrote a visual design tool that reduced a process for developing artificial intelligence from 30 days to 30 minutes
• Designed and implemented the camera, scripting system, heads-up-display, and other gameplay features
• Shipped Shark Tale and Pitfall: The Lost Expedition, published by Activision for the GameCube, PlayStation 2, and Xbox

Met, Entertainment Technology

Ba, Computer Science

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