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Redmond, Washington, Us

Las Vegas, Nv, Us

Working on an unannounced project at Scientific Games’ new Austin studio. Initially, I built a general-purpose administrative tools using the combination of a LAMP stack and proprietary frameworks. After six months I was promoted to lead Scientific Games’ cross-studio Shared Technology Team, reporting directly to the CTO. This meant operating a group of high-performing Software Engineers in three distinct studios in a variety of tactical and strategic initiatives to standardize, improve and share technologies across a number of in-development and live games.

Nicosia, Cy

Director of Technology Program Management, reporting to SVP of Engineering, operating within Wargaming’s Central Technology Group. CTG’s mission is to develop and support best-in-class technology in support of game development teams all over the world, to minimize risk, maximize success, and enable technology sharing. * Built and led North American CTG engineering group, with eight developers. This included everything from defining development processes and methodologies, day-to-day running the team, 1:1’s, fostering career growth, and annual reviews with reports, defining hiring practices and acting as hiring manager, working with Producers and Technical Directors to create and update schedules both long-range and near-term, and keeping CTG Engineering teams working on several projects simultaneously. * Provided hands-on mentoring with engineering teams regarding architectural designs and technical issues. * Technology development takes place in a highly distributed fashion. My team helped define the processes, communication, and technologies (e.g. using Perforce, GitFusion and Plastic as distributed revision control systems) to allow this. * Extensive coordination and frequent communication with other engineering groups within CTG and with game development team stakeholders. * Travelling to remote CTG studio in Sydney and client studios throughout North America and Europe. This job was about 10-20% travel. * I have been able to continue to actually program occasionally, although I need to keep myself out of the critical path. * Liaisoned with development teams on three continents. Engine development occurring across three teams on two continents.

Working with a team of research scientists out of Brown University developing cutting edge applications for computer vision technologies. At VSI I have worked on a number of products and a number of technologies. The technologies include:HTML5, CSS and Javascript. JQuery, JQuery-Reel, RaphaelJS, VXL, WAMP/LAMP stacks, creating and running Map-Reduce solutions using Hadoop on AWS clusters, VXL & VML applications written in wxPython, et al.

Providence, Ri, Us

I was the second engineer hired during the earliest stages of a start-up company working on an MMO codenamed Copernicus. Work has included extensive engine evaluation, building a rather large software engineering department from the ground up. Promoted to Lead Software Engineer after less than one year on the job, reporting directly to the CTO. Established department and company processes and technologies. Heavily involved in recruiting, interviewing and day-to-day team management. Working closely with EP, Director and Lead level counterparts in other departments and Studio General Managers to provide direction and scheduling for a multi-year project with several hundred developers. During my time at 38 Studios, I became a Certified Scrum Master. Built technologies using C++, Python, and UnrealScript, as well as C# based tools.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

I worked on two titles while at EA as well as being on a strike-team used to exercise technology being produced by a central technology team.* Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault - I worked in a Quake 3 based engine, primarily working in C++ to implement core gameplay, provide level support, helped add a "flight simulator" level to the engine.* Medal of Honor: Airborne - One of five engineers at the EALA studio chosen to bootstrap MOH:A. We began by prototyping core gameplay in a heavily modified Quake 3 based engine. We then switched over to become early adopters of a RenderWare 4 based engine, which was being heavily modified by EALA's Central Technology Team shortly after EA purchased Criterion. When it became clear RW4 was struggling I was asked to join a strike team to both exercise RW4 tech. and to evaluate the feasibility of moving forward with RW4. Eventually the game team licensed UnrealEngine 3. I was responsible for implementing core gameplay systems, especially combat, weapon systems, mounted weapon systems, elements of the view model, automatic waypoint detection and cover system detection for AI. When multi-player gameplay was brought in-house, I was working on multi-player gameplay systems. Work was done on this title primarily in C++ and UnrealScript.

I worked on a number of games, some of which shipped while others did not. Titles and technologies included:* Evernight: Reign of Darkness - A web-based massively multi-player fantasy strategy game. Used C++, MS-SQL server, MS-IIS. Responsible for creating and rendering programatically generated maps, and core gameplay.* UltraCorps - A web-based massively multi-player SciFi strategy game published by Microsoft. Used C++, MS-SQL server, MS-IIS. Responsible for core gameplay* Additional unannounced, unpublished web-based massively multi-player strategy games.* Hired Guns - An UnrealEngine 1.0 based cooperative FPS. Published by Psygnosis, but cancelled. Used C++, UnrealEngine 1.0. Responsible for gameplay, level design, general debugging.* Nightcaster: Defeat the Darkness - An XBox launch title. A third-person fantasy action game published by Microsoft. Used C++, a proprietary scripting language and engine. Responsible for core combat gameplay, spell system, some AI, XBox certification compatibility, general debugging and some localization.* Nightcaster 2: Equinox - An XBox exclusive third-person fantasy action game featuring co-op. Published by Jaleco Entertainment. Used C++, proprietary scripting language and engine. Responsible for core gameplay systems.* Unannounced third-person combat game for XBox and PS2. Cancelled. Used C++ in a proprietary engine. Responsible for melee combat systems, player locomotion, and camera.