Michael Dorgan Email & Phone Number

Lynnwood, Wa, Us

Lynnwood, Wa, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

Within the NTD division of Nintendo of America, I manage the Nintendo Switch Compiler team and also handle all elevated performance enhancement requests both from within Nintendo and from 3rd Party developers. My role is to create and execute on my vision for the compiler team, directly assist the debugger team, Security team, profiler team, and various OS groups in performance and compiler related manners, while continuously delivering and updating our high quality suite of LLVM compiler tools. In addition I also handle all elevated Nintendo-wide CPU performance related items and am self-directed to implement code to improve CPU performance in any internal system as is practical.Previously within NTD, I have worked on the USB stack, the Network Stack, and the Power Management routines for the Nintendo Switch. Earlier, I worked within SDSG where I was responsible for supporting 3DS developers worldwide with all GPU and CPU issues with an emphasis on optimization, white paper research and creation, and the occasional DS and Wii U project oddity as it appeared. I also closely supported various localization efforts and helped support our code profiler's creation and improvement.

Redmond, Wa, Us

I am currently creating and teaching a brand new curriculum based upon the Nintendo Switch. As this is very new hardware, I was able negotiate between many levels of management across both Nintendo and Digipen to bring this class into existence. In the past, because of my extensive experience on Nintendo titles and other game development experience, I had been asked to teach the CS388 (handheld development) and CS488 (console development) classes. In these classes, I help students use older Nintendo development hardware to create their own games on these systems. In addition, I am there to mentor and help them on topics within the gaming industry and other technical fields. I find this work very rewarding and enjoy seeing the students grow under my tutelage.

Bellevue, Washington, Us

Debugging/optimization work for CounterStrike:Global Offensive. Some prototyping work with Scaleform and Unreal Engine 3. Exploratory work for porting their engine to iOS.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Handheld expertise on getting their interal engine to run on iOS/Mac. Some engine optimization and compression routine work for Guild Wars 2. Added XCode support to their C# project file creation tool and allowed future expansion to Makefile style projects.

Kirkland, Wa, Us

Senior & Lead DeveloperAs a Senior Developer, my duties included:• Responsible for creating, deploying, and maintaining software across the entire studio and beyond• Low level engine creation, maintenance, and debugging across many platforms• Creation and optimization of CPU and GPU routines• Debugging just about any sort of code imaginable• Mentoring and teaching of other developers company wide• Still perform all duties as a Lead Developer as well.I was the studio’s principle developer for 3DS and DS. My final project was to create graphical lighting solutions, various texture mapping routines, conversion of animation routines to GLSL and 3DS graphical assembly language while continuing to optimizing our collision detection routines, scene culling, particle systems, and our render pipeline in preparation for iPhone/Unity work.Lead Developer I/II/IIII've completed 11 full game cycles as a lead developer: 4 on Gameboy (Z80 assembler), 4 on Gameboy Advanced (developed in C and Arm/Thumb assembler), and 3 on the DS and DSi (C++/Arm Assembler). I have also been credited on roughly 20 other studio projects for my strong trouble shooting, optimization, and problem solving skills. My job duties as a lead include: Completing my own programming tasks, training of Jr. Programmers, schedule creation, game design and documentation, continued education of programmers on my teams, client expectation management, while supporting other projects studio wide in debugging, profiling and space/size optimization. Due to my natural strengths in engine design, debugging, and optimization. Programmer / Production Assistant / Jr. Programmer / System AdministratorI’ve worked on various games with duties ranging from UI design, AI creation, complete mini-game creation, and many other sub-systems. I choose to specialize on handhelds with the Gameboy (color and original) platform, which was completely coded in Z80 assembly language.