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Champaign, Illinois, United States

Champaign, Illinois, United States

• Worked with production and studio architects to identify and prioritize project and studio needs, and to distribute work among rendering team members.• Primary point of contact between Rendering group and other teams within the studio, as well as with external groups (Microsoft/Sony, GPU manufacturers, middleware providers, etc.)• Led cross-disciplinary group focusing on content optimization, bug-fixing, and general stability improvements for Saints Row (2022) DLC and patches.

Champaign, Illinois, United States

• Saints Row (2022), Agents of Mayhem (2017), Project Zeus (canceled), Saints Row IV (2013)• Implemented a real-time global illumination system based on Reflective Shadow Maps and Light Propagation Volumes, with associated data pipelines and authoring tools. Included multi-level global cascades, artist-placed volumes, multiple light types, and an advanced blocker system.• Developed a full pipeline for precomputed volumetric ambient visibility, using an offline tool to generate, cluster, and compress visibility probes, which are then streamed from disk, decompressed, and combined with real-time ambient data based on the current lighting and skybox environment to generate dynamic ambient lighting with time-of-day and weather.• Spearheaded support for HDR display output, including a bespoke adjustable extension to the ACES tonemapping standard, an HDR-capable art-driven lookup table-based color grading pipeline, and support for HDR10, HGiG, and AMD FreeSync Premium Pro HDR.• Implemented data pipelines and editor support for material authoring and assignment, character customization and morphing, vehicle deformation, open-world distant LOD geometry and lighting, and the basic static mesh pipeline.• Led the DX12 backend implementation for Xbox platforms, including support for ESRAM resource management and DMA transfer management. Modified our DX12 memory allocator and resource tracking to be more efficient for console.• Provided ongoing support and communication across disciplines within the studio to manage performance, stability, and usability concerns. Primary point of contact for triaging and distributing reported bugs, crash dumps, and framerate issues.• Provided code reviews and mentoring for other rendering team members.

Champaign, Illinois, United States

• Guillermo del Toro’s inSANE (canceled) - Implemented new tools and data pipelines, including a global illumination pipeline based on Enlighten middleware.• Saints Row the Third (2011) - General rendering and pipeline support.• Red Faction Armageddon (2011) - Rendering Team Lead o Worked with Production to assign work, manage schedules, communicate progress and any issues that came up to project management and other interested groups. o Co-implemented a new lighting and translucency system based on a modified version of deferred lighting called “inferred lighting”. o Worked alongside physics and general engine programmers to extend and enhance the destruction technology from Red Faction Guerrilla.• Saints Row 2 (2008) / Saints Row (2006) / The Punisher (2005) o Systems and pipelines - characters (customizable player and NPCs), decals, post-processing, cinematics, material shader authoring, and general renderer development. • Gameplay/systems programming – animation, weapons, inventory, vehicle interactions, mission and activity support, etc.

Champaign, Illinois, United States

• Implemented a data table editor tool that was used by the studio for over a decade.

Champaign, Illinois, United States

- Provided occasional rendering and performance advice and support.- Helped develop content pipeline for smoothed cave surfaces.- Assisted with livestreams / developer chats and PAX West booth staffing.

Mcs, Computer Science

Bs, Computer Engineering / Computer Science